Specific medication and specific medicines / by John M. Scudder.

  • Scudder, John M. (John Milton), 1829-1894.
Date:
1870
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Credit: Specific medication and specific medicines / by John M. Scudder. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    LEPTANDRIN. The best Leptandrin of the market is a dried alco- holic extract, the strongest is obtained by adding a portion of Podophyllum before tincturing. The resin is nearly worthless. The dried extract proves a very good remedy in many cases, and may be used for the same purposes as named for the tincture or infusion. LIATRIS SPICATA. (Button Snakeroot.) Preparation.—Prepare a tincture from the recent root, 5viij. to Alcohol 76° Oj. Dose from gtts. v. to 5ss. The Liatris is gently tonic, and stimulates secre- tion from all the emunctories. Hence it has been added to various alterative combinations, and with some practitioners is very highly esteemed. It acts more directly upon the urinary apparatus, and prob- ably upon the reproductive apparatus of both male and female. LIQUIDAMBAR STYRACIFLUA. (Sweet Gum.) Some years since we had sweet gum, the exudation from this tree, recommended for the cure of asthma, and a number of cases from the South were given as proof. But experiments in the Northern States were not favorable. I judge, however, from some reports of Southern physicians, that the recent bark