The clinical pharmacopœia, or, general principles of practice and prescription ; arranged under three heads ; ... being the principles and most approved forms of practice in medicine, surgery, midwifery, and children's diseases ; intended as a compend, or pocket-book, for medical practitioners / / by William Nisbet.

  • Nisbet, William, 1759-1822.
Date:
1800
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Credit: The clinical pharmacopœia, or, general principles of practice and prescription ; arranged under three heads ; ... being the principles and most approved forms of practice in medicine, surgery, midwifery, and children's diseases ; intended as a compend, or pocket-book, for medical practitioners / / by William Nisbet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FORMS. DOSES. R Camphor, 3i- folve fpiritus Vini ope adde Opii pur. gr. viij. Ol. Succini rectif. q. f. ut ft. Two a do/e at a time, ami pil. N° 16. repeated as indicated. ft Sri C. C. 3i. G. Opii, gr. vi. Conf. Cardiac. Jiij. m. ft. bolus, N“ i. The cold bath fuccefsful, applied at the height of the fpafm. Mercury to be alfo ufed; and it does heft here in the form of liniment, rubbed on the parts mod contracted, and carried un- til falivation commences, and opium exhibited as above, at the fame time. Tar, in the quantity of a tea fpoonful, ufeful at times. Bark and other Ilimulants, in large dofes, has of late been pre- ferred. m VI. Sardonic Laugh. (Risus Sardonicus.) Is a continued involuntary laughter. Antifpafmodics, as in N° 4. Clafs II. VII. St. Vitus’s Dance. (Chorea St. Viti.) Is a peculiar convullion affefting the leg and arm of one fide. Bark the principal remedy here, as in N 23. Clafs I. ar.d alfo, ftP. C. P. ?i. A tea fpoonful three or Sal Ammon, ernd. 3>• ' Jour limet a day. Syrup, e Succ. Limon. q.f. ut ft. cleft. R P. C. P. 9iij. Sal Martis, gr. iij. Syr. q. f. ut hat bolus. The jttnftion alfo of copper and zinc in this difeafe fuccefs- ful ; as, ft Cupri Ammon, gr. iv. Flor. Zinci, gr. viij. „ , . Extraft. Gentian, q. f. ut ft. pth xxir. One a dofe morning and evening.