Medicine chests, with suitable directions / prepared by Samuel Hemenway at his shop in Essex Street, opposite Union Street Salem.

  • Hemenway, Samuel, 1777-1823.
Date:
[1796?]
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Credit: Medicine chests, with suitable directions / prepared by Samuel Hemenway at his shop in Essex Street, opposite Union Street Salem. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    No. 10... Bark. per in almoft all cafes of debility, particularly in intermittent fevers. Previous to giving it, adminifter a purge, No. 2. It isalioproperin all putrid and nervous fevers, especially in the throat diftemper. Dole, a tea fpoonful, to be taken in a little wine or warer,and repeatecl once in two, three, or four hours, asoccalion may require. In intermittent fever, or fever and ague, (as it is called). IhoulJ the d if order not give way, by adminiflering a purge, No. 2, and the u(e of the bark for a week or fortnight, adminifter a puke, No. i, when the patient firfr. perceives the cold fit coming on—afterwards ufe the bark once in two or three hours, It this does not break it up, at the coming on of the ague fit, give 25 or 30 drops of lauda- num, and continue the bark, as before -f which treatment willleldom fail of effecting a cure. In putrid fevers, add to a dole of the bark, tenorfixteeadropsof Elixir Vitriol, ^Jo. 11, which will contribute very much to its efficacy. N. B, In dangerous cafes, where the bark is ufed, it may be given as often, and in as large doles, as the ftom- ach will bear. It ft\auld be given at the going off of fe* vers ot all kinds. No. 11...Elixir of Vitriol. From, ten to twenty drops of this Elixir may be taken in wine and water, bitters, or the bark, in cafes of debili- ty, or in putrid drforders. It is alfo an excellent medi- cine to create appetite. No. 3 2...Purging Fills. Incases ofcoflivenefs,. and headache, and where the perfon 1? troubled with indigeftion and fiatulancy, or in snv cafe where a perfon wants to make ufe ef gentle purg- ing,, one of t'ncfe pills, takenat bed time, will operate two ^r three times the nc^w morning—They are fuperjor fc<j