The physician's dose and symptom book : containing the doses and uses of all the principal articles of the materia medica and chief officinal preparations : also, table of weights and measures, rules to proportion the doses of medicines, common abbreviations used in writing prescriptions, table of poisons and antidotes, index of diseases and treatments, pharmaceutical preparations, table of symptomatology, outlines of general pathology and therapeutics / by Joseph H. Wythes.

  • Wythe, J. H. (Joseph Henry), 1822-1901.
Date:
1874
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Credit: The physician's dose and symptom book : containing the doses and uses of all the principal articles of the materia medica and chief officinal preparations : also, table of weights and measures, rules to proportion the doses of medicines, common abbreviations used in writing prescriptions, table of poisons and antidotes, index of diseases and treatments, pharmaceutical preparations, table of symptomatology, outlines of general pathology and therapeutics / by Joseph H. Wythes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tonic, stimulant, emmenagogue, resolvent. Use. In nervous headaches, and in chlorosis, under the form of infusion; but it is now scarcely ever used, unless as an adjunct, to give odor to sternutatory powders. Dose, Of the powder grs. x to ^ss. ROTTLERA. Karaeela. {B. tinctoria.) Purgative, anthelmintic for taenia. Dose. 5j-^iij. EUBIA. Eoot of Madder. {R. tinctorum.) Emmenagogue, astringent. Use. In chlorosis, and difficult or scanty menstru- ation ; in the atrophia infantum; but its efficacy is very doubtful. Dose. Grs. xv to 9j; united with sulphate of potassa, three or four times a day. EUBUS TEIVIALIS VILLOSUS. Devrberry Eoot, Blackberry Eoot. Astringent and tonic. Use-. In diarrhoea from debility, cholera infantum, chronic dysentery. In all cases where astringents are indicated. Dose. Of the decoction (^j, Ojss. water; boiled to Oj), from f^j to f^ij three or four times a day. Of the powdered root, grs. xx to grs. xxx. EUMEX. Dock-root. {M. Britannica and obtusifolius.) Mild astringent, tonic, alterative. Use. In scrofula and syphilis, externally in skin diseases. Dose, f^ij of decoction (^j dried root to Oj). EUTA. The leaves of Eue. {B. graveolens.) Tonic, stimulant, antispasmodic, emmenagogue. Use. In hysteria and flatulent colic; but chiefly in the form of strong infusion in clysters in the convul- sions of children. Dose. Grs. xv to ^ij-