A new supplement to the pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and Paris : forming a complete dispensatory and conspectus; including the new French medicines and poisons ... / by James Rennie.

  • Rennie, James, 1787-1867.
Date:
1833
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Credit: A new supplement to the pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and Paris : forming a complete dispensatory and conspectus; including the new French medicines and poisons ... / by James Rennie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DOSES. In prescribing a medicine, the following circumstances should always be kept in view:—Age, Sex, Temperament, Habit, Climate, State of Stomach, and Idiosyncracy. AGE. For an adult, suppose the dose to be one or 1 drachm. Under 1 year, will require only . ]-12th 5 grains. 2 l-8th 8 grains. 3 l-6th 10 grains. 4. . . . l-4th 15 grains. 7 l-3d 1 scruple. 14 half half drachm. 20 2-3ds 2 scruples. Above 21 The full dose .... one 1 drachm. 65 The inverse gradation of the above. Sex. Women require smaller doses than men, and the state of the uterine system must never be overlooked. Temperament. Stimulants and purgatives more readily affect the sanguine than the phlegmatic, and consequently the former require smaller doses. Habits. The knowledge of these is essential; for those in the ha- bitual use of stimulants and narcotics require larger doses to affect them when labouring under disease, whilst those who have habituated themselves to the use of saline purgatives are more easily affected by these remedies. Climate. Medicines act differently on the same individual in summer and in winter, and in different climates. State op Stomach, and Idiosyncracy. The least active remedies operate very violently on some individuals, owing to a peculiarity of stomach, or rather disposition of body, unconnected with tem- perament. This state can be discovered only by accident or time ; but when it is known, it should always be attended to by the prac- titioner. In prescribing, the practitioner should always so regulate the inter- vals between the doses, that the next dose may be taken before the enect produced by the first is altogether effaced; for by not attending