Cox's companion to the sea medicine chest, and compendium of domestic medicine : particularly adapted for captains of merchant vessels, missionaries, and colonists, with plain rules for taking the medicines ; to which are added directions for restoring suspended animation, the method of obviating the effects of poisons, a plain description of the treatment of fractures and dislocations, and a concise account of asiatic or spasmodic cholera / revised and considerably enlarged by R. Davis.

  • Cox, Edward.
Date:
1851
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Credit: Cox's companion to the sea medicine chest, and compendium of domestic medicine : particularly adapted for captains of merchant vessels, missionaries, and colonists, with plain rules for taking the medicines ; to which are added directions for restoring suspended animation, the method of obviating the effects of poisons, a plain description of the treatment of fractures and dislocations, and a concise account of asiatic or spasmodic cholera / revised and considerably enlarged by R. Davis. 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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    [ALOES Enters largely into the various pills sold for the relief of costiveness. It is a slow but certain cathartic. When given repeatedly it often causes piles. It also acts upon the uterus, and for this purpose is often given in cases of ob- struction of the menstrual secretion. The medium dose of the powder is 10 grains, and is best given in full.] ALUM Is a medicine of considerable use in several cases, more particularly as an external application.—Half a drachm dis- solved in half a pint of water, is a good application in slight inflammations of external parts of the body : rags wetted in the lotion should be kept constantly on the part, and renew- ed as they become warm ; recent boils have by this means been dispersed, and, consequently, much pain and trouble have been saved to the patient. Some people are often sub- ject to a soreness of the tongue and mouth, especially during the summer season, which may be readily removed by rins- ing the mouth frequently with a solution of alum in the proportions already mentioned. If it should make the mouth bleed, or smart much, it will require a little dilution. The soreness of the nipples, which often happens to women after delivery, so as to prevent the parent from nursing her child, is sometimes removed by frequent ablution of the parts with the solution of alum. If it create much smarting, in the proportions mentioned, it will be proper to dilute it. The nipples should be well washed before the child is suf- fered to suck, otherwise the austere taste of the alum will make it loathe the breast.—A scruple of alum dissolved in a teacupful of water, makes a moderately strong solution, which, if a little is sniffed up the nose repeatedly, will often succeed in preventing bleeding from that part. Alum is an approved remedy for bleedings in the internal parts ; but these, when trifling, require no such' aid; and, when exces- sive, require such discrimination as necessarily calls for the judgment of the profession.—One drachm of alum dissolved in four ounces of vinegar, to which water and spirit of wine,