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The catalogue of drugs, or medicine chest companion. Specifying their properties, the doses to ... / by Reece and Co.

  • Reece and Co.
Date:
1846
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Credit: The catalogue of drugs, or medicine chest companion. Specifying their properties, the doses to ... / by Reece and Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to be injected into the vagina two or three times a day, by means of a female syringe—the cold shower bath, or cold plunging bath, three times a week.— Diet, moderate, or according to the state of the general health.—There is a valuable practical communication, by a Scotch physician, on the treatment and causes of the varieties of fluor albus, in No. I. of the Monthly Gazette of Practical Medicine, pub- lished on the Ist of January, 1831. See the Lady’s Medical Guide, noticed p. 158. WHITLOE.—If matter has not formed, apply four or five leeches, and afterward the discutient lotion (No. 52, p. 88), or spirit of wine on fine soft linen, or a poultice of vinegar, spirit of wine, and bran—take the purgative pills (No. 35, p. 86). If matter has formed, apply the soothing poultice (No. 77, p. 91). WINTER COUGH.—See Cough (chronic). WORMS (Lumbrici, or long round Worms).—Take basilic powder (9.42) ;-or basilic nut (p. 80) every third morning, and a wine-glassful of the infusion of chirayita, or camomile flowers, with ten drops of the tincture of muriate of iron, three times a day. WORMS (Ascarides, or short round Worms).—With the treatment recommended for the long round worm, administer a lavement of half a pint of lime water, with a table spoonful of the alcaline liquor of iron (lukewarm), about two or three times a week, or the same quantity of infusion of Indian pink. WORMS (Tinea, or Tapeworm).—Take the rectified oil of turpentine, half an ounce, with water, or mixed with honey, every morning, or two drachms of the tincture of colchicum in water, or half a drachm of the powdered bark of the pome- granate root (twice a day), or one or two drops of the croton oil, with three or four drachms of rectified oil of turpentine, mixed with honey, every or every other morning, according to the aperient effects.