Domestic medicine, or, Medical vade mecum : a safe companion and guide for families, planters, commanders of ships or steamers, or any one who may require a true friend in time of need : this companion embraces, alphabetically arranged, the medicines in general use, the diseases and accidents of usual occurrence, the most useful articles of diet or drink for the sick or convalescent, with the best mode of preparing them, and numerous remarks in reference to bathing, exercise, and other hygienic measures to preserve health, to repair and strengthen an enervated constitution, and to cure disease / by Edward Jenner Coxe.

  • Coxe, Edward Jenner, 1801-1882.
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[1854], [©1854]
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Credit: Domestic medicine, or, Medical vade mecum : a safe companion and guide for families, planters, commanders of ships or steamers, or any one who may require a true friend in time of need : this companion embraces, alphabetically arranged, the medicines in general use, the diseases and accidents of usual occurrence, the most useful articles of diet or drink for the sick or convalescent, with the best mode of preparing them, and numerous remarks in reference to bathing, exercise, and other hygienic measures to preserve health, to repair and strengthen an enervated constitution, and to cure disease / by Edward Jenner Coxe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and apparently more active remedies had failed. In the treatment of dropsy, no remedies prove more generally effi- cacious as curative agents than diuretics, which, when brought to act fully, will rarely fail to moderate or remove the disease. The principal articles of this class are : Spirits of Nitre, Balsam Copaiva, Water (perhaps the best of all), Mustard Whey, Saltpetre, Cream of Tartar, Parsley, Carrot, Water- melon, and other seeds. DOVER'S POWDER. A combination of opium, ipecacuanha, and sulphate of potash, long celebrated as an anodyne diaphoretic, in rheu- matism, affections of the lungs, pleura, or bowels. The dose is from ten to fifteen grains at bedtime, or in smaller quantities, repeated every two, three, or four hours. A warm drink, as lemonade, balm, or sage tea, taken one or two hours after the dose has been given, will materially assist its operation. Dover's powder may often be given with advantage, in cases where opium by itself might be inadmissible. In dysentery and diarrhoea, it often proves highly beneficial and curative. DRINKS. Most of the articles named under the head of demulcents belong properly to this class, and may be used advantage- ously in cases of fever and inflammation. To repair the natural waste of the fluids of the body, to assist the operation of diuretics or diaphoretics, to sheathe or protect the irritated or inflamed mucous membrane of the air passages, stomach, bowels, kidneys, or bladder, and allay febrile heat, the free use of drinks, cold or hot, ac- cording to the state of the system, or desire of the invalid, is demanded. As a general rule, the feelings of the patient may regulate the quantity; occasionally, however, where a particular effect is desired, it is preferable to give a certain quantity at regular intervals. In the acute stages of fe- brile and inflammatory diseases, most of these drinks con-