A companion to the medicine chest; or, plain directions for the employment of the various medicines, etc. contained in it : with the properties and doses of such as are more generally used in domestic medicine; to which are added, a brief description of the symptoms and treatment of diseases directions for restoring suspended animation and various mechanical auxiliaries to medicine / By John Savory.

  • Savory, John.
Date:
1836
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Credit: A companion to the medicine chest; or, plain directions for the employment of the various medicines, etc. contained in it : with the properties and doses of such as are more generally used in domestic medicine; to which are added, a brief description of the symptoms and treatment of diseases directions for restoring suspended animation and various mechanical auxiliaries to medicine / By John Savory. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ♦ The dose is from fire to twenty drops, largely diluted with water to prevent its caustic effect on the mouth. Externally, water of ammonia is used as a rubefacient, being the chief ingredient of several liniments. When water of ammonia is employed as a vesicatory, a piece of linen of the size of the blister desired, is wet with it and applied to the part intended to be vesicated. Writers, both in the East and West Indies, have recorded cases of the successful employment of this preparation of ammonia in the bites of the venomous serpents of those countries. Angustura Bark—Cusparia—Is a valuable tonic, es- pecially in cases of dyspepsia, with diarrhoea and loss of appe- tite. It may be given in powder in doses of ten grains, twice or thrice a-day; or in infusion, or decoction. In cases of flatulency of the stomach, attended by nausea, five grains, with the same weight of rhubarb, taken an hour before dinner, will often effectually restore the appetite and digestion. Anise-seeds. — These seeds are carminative, and are sup- posed to possess the power of promoting the secretion of milk. They are chiefly used in flatulencies, and the gripings of infants. Antimonial Powder. — A Medicine resembling the cele- brated Dr. James's Powder. — This is an excellent diaphoretic and sudorific remedy in fevers, procuring with ease and safety the most salutary evacuations, and not unfrequently inducing a speedy and favourable termination of the complaint—but several circumstances are necessary to be attended to in regard to the administration of this medicine. 1. — Whenever it is indicated, the patient should be con- fined to bed, but not overloaded with bed-clothes. If the pulse be full, hard, and quick, and the skin hot, blood-letting, if not contra-indicated by some peculiar circumstance, should precede the use of this powder; and the bowels, also, should be freely opened. 2 The free use of diluents is necessary during the administration of antimonial powder, unless the stomach be in a highly irritable state. 3.—During the administration of antimonial or diapho- retic medicines, it is essential to use bad conductors of heat