A treatise on midwifery, and the diseases of women and children.

  • Albert Isaiah Coffin
Date:
1849
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on midwifery, and the diseases of women and children. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    cloves and cayenne, each a quarter of aii ounce, all finely pulverised, and well mixed. Ordinary dose, a teaspoonful in a cup of hot v^ater, well sv^eetened. STOMACH BITTERS. This preparation is designed to correct the bile, and create an appetite. Will be found highly useful in all cases of flatulency, faintness at the stomach, and particularly when the patient has been much enfeebled by disease or age. It is pre- pared as follows :—take of white poplar bark, one ounce; baimony, two ounces; bayberry, two ounces ; ginger, one ounce ; cayenne, a teaspoon- ful ; cloves, half a teaspoonful, all finely powdered, and well mixed. Dose same as composition powder. TINCTURE OF MYRRH. A TINCTURE made of gum myrrh is good in cases of rheumatism, or for sprains ; to one pint of spirits of wine, add two ounces of gum myrrh, with half a teaspoonful of finely pounded cayenne pepper ; this, when externally applied, is an excellent remedy for cuts, sprains, bruises, &c. INJECTIONS. This mode of administering medicine is of very ancient origin, and in our opinion, it cannot be too highly recommended; when the stomach of the
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