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.

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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    VI. ALPHABETICAL LIST OF MEDICINES WITH THEIR USES, DOSES, ETC. ABSINTHE. A compound Frencli liqueur, consisting of alcohol, oil of wormwood, anise, etc. Effects more deleterious than alcohol, tending to epileptiform con- vulsions. ABSINTHIUM. Wormwood. (Artemisia absinthium.) Tonic, antispasmodic, anthelmintic, discutient, antiseptic. Use. In intermittents, dyspepsia, gout, hypochon- driasis, dropsy, and epilepsy not depending on or- ganic changes. Clysters of the decoction are useful in ascarides. Dose. In substance, ^j to ^ij. Infusion (^vj to water Oj) f^vj to f^xij, three or four times a day. Incompatible. Sulphates of iron and of zinc; ace- tate and diacetate of lead, nitrate of silver. ACACIA. Gum Arabic. {A. vera.) Demulcent, nutritious. Use, In catarrh, pertussis, ardor urinse, etc. Mucilage of Gum Arabic is often employed as a vehicle for other substances. To render them mis- cible, oils require three-fourths of their own weight, balsams and spermaceti equal parts, resin two parts, and musk five times its weight.