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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    Take of Compound Infusion of Roses, Compound Infusion of Gentian, of each seven drachms; Compound Tincture of Gentian, one drachm ; Diluted Sulphuric Acid, twenty minims. Mix, and make a draught, to he taken three times a-day. If the bowels are costive, a drachm of Epsom salts may be added. Ginger, Jamaica.— The ginger plant is a native of the mountains of Gingi, in Hindostan, whence its name is derived. It was carried from India to the West Indies, where the greater part of the ginger used in Europe is cultivated. In the form of powder ginger has lately been much extolled as a remedy for gout, indigestion, and flatulence, in the dose of twenty grains to a tea-spoonful in any common vehicle. A weak in- fusion of ginger, commonly called ginger tea, is an excellent beverage for persons of dyspeptic and gouty habits. Com- bined with rhubarb it forms a good stomachic pill, especiallv in those cases where flatulency comes on before meals and when the stomach is nearly empty. Glauber’s Salt.— In the dose of six or eight drachms this salt is an efficient aperient, but its taste is nauseously saline ; and though frequently used as a domestic medicine, it hasbeen superseded by Epsom salts. Goulard’s Extract. — Used externally as a cooling and astringent application to inflamed surfaces and old ulcers ; and, if diluted in the proportion of ten drops to half a pint of pure water, with twenty drops of laudanum, it will be found ser- viceable as an eye-water in purulent ophthalmia. Goulard Water — Is made by adding a small tea-spoon- ful of the extract of goulard, with one of rectified spirits of wine, to a pint of distilled water. This is one of the best im- mediate applications for burns and inflammations ; but it should not be used to excoriated parts, or to burns when the skin is broken. Gum Arabic.—Among the demulcent substances, gum Arabic is the one most frequently used in the practice of medi- cine. It is sometimes given alone to relieve tickling coughs,