The druggist's general receipt book : comprising a copious veterinary formulary, numerous recipes in patent and proprietary medicines, druggists' nostrums, etc., perfumery and cosmetics, beverages, dietetic articles, and condiments, trade chemicals, scientific processes, and an appendix of useful tables / by Henry Beasley.

Beasley, Henry

Date:: 1872

Credit: The druggist's general receipt book : comprising a copious veterinary formulary, numerous recipes in patent and proprietary medicines, druggists' nostrums, etc., perfumery and cosmetics, beverages, dietetic articles, and condiments, trade chemicals, scientific processes, and an appendix of useful tables / by Henry Beasley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Antimonial Powder. Similar to James’s powder. Diapho- retic. In colds, fevers, inflammations, &c. Dose, for horses or cattle, 1 to* 2 dr.; swine, 6 grains; dogs, from 2 to 5 grains. Less efficient than Emetic Tartar. Antimony, Precipitated Selphitret of. Dose, a dr. to 2 dr. in obstinate skin diseases. Antimony, Tartarised. Emetic Tartar. Diaphoretic, ex- pectorant, and reduces arterial action. It is also regarded as diuretic and febrifuge. _ Dose, \ dr. to H dr. in gruel, 3 times a day, in fevers, in inflammation of the lungs, and catarrhal affections. To destroy worms, 2 dr. may be given with powdered tin, or some other mechanical ver- mifuge, fasting, and followed by aloes; or 1 dr. for'6 mornings, followed on the 7th by a dose of physic. Mr. White says he has not seen any good effect from it as a vermifuge. Cattle require from } dr. to 1 dr. Sheep from 10 to 20 gr. To swine and dogs it is emetic: the former require from 2 to 5 gr.; the latter, from 1 to 3 gr. Externally it produces an eruption on the skin. Formed into an ointment with lard, it has been rubbed on exter- nally in chest affections, but is dangerously irritant. Antimony, Butter of. Perchloride of Antimony, Used externally only, as a caustic in canker, &c. Antiperiodics. Remedies against those diseases which return at regular intervals, as agues. Antiseptics. Remedies which counteract putrefaction. Antispasmodics. Medicines which relieve spasm, as opium, ether, camphor, ammonia, ardent spirits, &c. Arnica. Nervine, sedative and diaphoretic. 40 to 60 gr, of the powdered plant (the flowers in preference) have been given twice a day for paralysis, amaurosis, rheuma- tism, blows or falls, &c. A decoction may be used out- wardly as a fomentation to bruises, wounds, &c. Aristolociiia. See Birthwort. Arsenic. White Arsenic or Arsenious Acid. Very poi- sonous to all animals. In small doses, tonic and alterative, —but its operation requires to be carefully watched. It has been given, in doses of 2 gr., gradually increased to 20, in farcy and glanders. Externally, is a caustic, but dangerous and unmanageable. Used in solution to destroy vermpi in cattle and sheep; but it is not free from clanger.$

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