The druggist's general receipt book : comprising a copious veterinary formulary, numerous recipes in patent and proprietary medicines, druggists' nostrums, etc., perfumery and cosmetics, beverages, dietetic articles, and condiments, trade chemicals, scientific processes, and an appendix of useful tables / by Henry Beasley.
- Beasley, Henry
- Date:
- 1878
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The druggist's general receipt book : comprising a copious veterinary formulary, numerous recipes in patent and proprietary medicines, druggists' nostrums, etc., perfumery and cosmetics, beverages, dietetic articles, and condiments, trade chemicals, scientific processes, and an appendix of useful tables / by Henry Beasley. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![be avoided in cases of irritation or inflammation of any part of the alimentary canal, and in piles or haemorrhage from the rectum. In bronchitis and other inflammatory affections of the mucous membranes, and in inflammation of the kidneys, it must be used with great caution, and in very small doses, for in such cases the intestinal mucous membrane is usually irritable, and superpurgation and inflammation are readily induced. During pregnancy, both in the mare and the bitch, the violent operation of aloes must be carefully avoided. Some practitioners give it both to foals and calves, but for young animals, linseed oil or castor oil is more suitable.” Alum. Astringent and styptic. Given in doses of 2 to 4 dr. to horses in diabetes and diarrhoea; but Bourgelat says that its too frequent use induces a phthisical condi- tion. A dose of alum whey, consisting of 2 dr. of the powder in a pint of hot milk, may be given after excessive purging. Cattle require from 2 to 6 or 8 drachms in diabetes and red water; and from 2 to 4 oz. are given to cows to dry their milk. To calves and lambs it is given in dr. doses, in warm milk, for diarrhoea, &c. Dogs, 10 to 15 gr. Externally it is applied to cracked and greasy heels, joint wounds, sore mouths, inflammation of the eye, chronic discharges from the nostrils, and to arrest bleeding from wounds. Burnt alum is more powerful, and is used as a mild caustic, mixed with honey, to fungous growths, sore mouths, &c. Alterative,-;. Medicines which, without producing any considerable or immediate sensible operation, and without interfering with food or work, effect a slow change in the diseased action of certain parts, so as gradually to restore a healthy state. Ammonia, Carbonate or Sesquicarbonate or. Volatile Salts. Stimulant and antacid. Dose 1 dr. to 2 dr. [Moiroud says from 2 to 8 dr.] to horses in tympanitis, and the last stage of pneumonia. To cattle, in lioven (distension from the fermentation of green food), 1 to 4 dr. [Moiroud says to 12 dr.]. The solution of carbonate of ammonia has the same properties as the spirit of harts- horn, which sec.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28091024_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
