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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    grain—one to be given twice or three times a day. In com- bination with rhubarb and sulphate of potash, it is given in diseases of the mesenteric glands, which is recognised by the tumid belly, skinny neck, and wasted thighs. The infusion of calumba given in doses of from 1^ ounces to 2 ounces, three times a day, is very serviceable in allaying the sickness arising from pregnancy {for formula, see Prescription, Xo. 9); and in children suffering from sickness and looseness of bowels, produced by the irritation of dentition, the infusion is given with great advantage. In dyspepsia or indigestion, accompanied by much flatulence, it affords great relief in combination with sal volatile and infusion of gentian.—The following is a good form to administer it in cases of indiges- tion. Take of tincture of calumba, six drachms ; tincture of gentian, two drachms ; sal volatile, four drachms, mix—a teaspoonful to be taken in a wine-glassful of water three or four times a day. CAMPHOR. Camphor is a stimulant, narcotic, and a promoter of per- spiration. The efficacy of this medicine has long been ascertained in many very formidable diseases ; but of its influence over these it would be to no purpose to speak, as their management requires a degree of discernment, of which every one is not supposed to be possessed ; we shall, there- fore, confine the remarks to less desperate cases. It is ad- ministered in fever of a low character, in combination with ipecacuanha and opium ; one grain of the latter with five grains of camphor, made into a pill, will often promote sleep and free perspiration in this disease. The same form of pill is of the greatest service in quieting pain and irritability after delivery and in chronic rheumatism. In violent sick head-ache, the same preparation will afford great relief. Half an ounce, dissolved in two ounces of spirits of wine, forms the spirit of camphor, an useful preparation in many respects. Two drachms of camphor, dissolved in an ounce and a half of olive oil, is an excellent liniment for sprains, bruises, stiff joints, and rheumatism. Camphor has long been reputed a preservative against infection, for which pur- pose it is worn round the neck in a small bag. Camphor