A new collection of medical prescriptions, distributed into twelve classes ... with ... remarks, exhibiting a view of the present state of the materia medica ... / By a member of the London College of Physicians [i.e. R. Pearson].

Date:
1791
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A new collection of medical prescriptions, distributed into twelve classes ... with ... remarks, exhibiting a view of the present state of the materia medica ... / By a member of the London College of Physicians [i.e. R. Pearson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ./ • 41 : > “ € 1. • : y 18 EVACUANTS.C. EXPECTORANTS. Clajs 1. Mix. Dofe, a tea-cupful twice or thrice a day, in a fit of afthma. See Fuller. • • 3. Mixture with Ammoniacum. Take of The ammoniacum milk, L. Ph. half a pint. Wine of tartarifed antimony, a dram : Mix. Dofe, two table fpoonfuls. To this may be occafionally added three or four drams of the camphorated tindture of opium, L. Ph. After the manner of Hartmann. 4. Mixture with Afafcetida. Take of Afafcetida, a dram and a half, Penny-royal water, eight ounces : Mix. Dofe, two or three table fpoonfuls every three hours. In the hooping-cough. See Millar. , * It may be given alfo in afthmatic cafes, and in that particular affedtion of die lungs (to which children are liable) called the croup ; for which another form of preferring afafcetida will be found under the clafs of an- tifpafmodics. As