Volume 1

A practical synopsis of the materia alimentaria and materia medica / by the author of the Thesaurus medicaminum.

  • Pearson, Richard, 1765-1836.
Date:
1797-1802
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    one part, water feven parts. It is thereiore ftronger than that of the Lond. College. Dole from ten to thirty drops. The diluted vitriolic acid is, in common with other acids, an ufeful medicine in low and malignant feversj (fee Anti- feptics) in the colliquative fweats which occur in hedtic fever, in menorrhagia, in large fuppura- tions, and in convalefcencies from moft fevers. In thefe cafes it is added to decodtions of cinchona bitter-infufions, infufion of rofesj or the acid is previoufly combined with fpices, as in the inftance \ of the Acidum vitrioli aromaticum, Ph. Ed. formerly Elixir vitrioli acidum (fee Antifeptics] j or with alkohol, as in the Spiritus JEtheris vitriolici, Ph. Lond. et Ed. (fee Refrigerants.) The dofes of thefe preparations are mentioned under the claffes referred to. It’s ufe in gargles has been noticed under Antifeptics. In certain cutaneous difeafes, the diluted vitriolic acid has been fuccefsfully adminiftered in large dofes fuch as fixty, eighty, or a hundred drops for a dofe, mixed with con- fiderable quantities of mucilaginous liquors, or with fjrrup and water. (Smyth in Vol. I. of MedL cal Communications.) The Spiritus JEtheris vi- triolici aromaticusy Ph. Ed. (vulgo Elixir vitrioli dulce) is made by macerating cinnamon, carda- mom, angelica and long pepper (in the fame proportions and in the fame manner as in the tindtura aromatica) with the fpiritus aetheris yitriolici