Medicines, their uses and mode of administration : including a complete conspectus of the three British pharmacopoeias, an account of all the new remedies, and appendix of formulae / by J. Moore Neligan ; with notes and additions, conforming it to the pharmacopoeia of the United States, and including all that is new or important in recent improvements by David Meredith Reese.

  • Neligan, J. Moore (John Moore), 1815-1863.
Date:
1851
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Credit: Medicines, their uses and mode of administration : including a complete conspectus of the three British pharmacopoeias, an account of all the new remedies, and appendix of formulae / by J. Moore Neligan ; with notes and additions, conforming it to the pharmacopoeia of the United States, and including all that is new or important in recent improvements by David Meredith Reese. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the mouth and in clyster, and, at the same time, causing friction to be made with a liniment over the abdomen. D. & M. of Adm.—In substance, §ss. to §j. swallowed whole, or made into pills with soap; of the expressed juice, min. xx. to min. xxx. on sugar; of an infusion prepared by infusing §ss. of the bulh in fen. of water or milk, fsij. to feiij. two or three times daily.— Sirup of Garlic (Garlic, one part; boiling water, eight parts; sugar, sixteen parts) ; dose, f^ss. to fgj. Artemisia santonica, semina, D. Worm-seed. The substance which is met with in the shops under this name is imported from Barbary and the Levant, and appears to be a mixture of fragments of flower-buds and their footstalks. It is incorrectly stated by the Dublin College to be the seeds of the plant above named. P. P.—The fragments are smooth, of a greenish-yellow colour; have a strong, aromatic odour, and a bitter taste. C. P.—It contains a bitter, resinous, extractive matter, and an acrid volatile oil. Th. E.—Not much employed now in this country, though still considered a very excellent anthelmintic in several parts of the Continent. It is used in cases of ascarides and lumbrici. D. & M. of Adm.—Gr. xx. to gr. xxx., made into an electuary with honey, may be given to children night and morning, followed by a brisk purge.— Vermifuge powder, P. (Worm-seed; Corsican moss ; wormwood ; tansy ; scordium ; senna ; and rhubarb, of each equal parts) ; dose, 3ss. to 3i.— Vermifuge bolus, P. (Worm-seed, gr. viij.; calomel, gr. ij.; camphor, gr. vj.; sirup, q. s for one bolus). Dose, one to two daily. Geoffroya inermis, cortex, D. Andira inermis (Kunth). Cab- bage-tree bark. A native of Jamaica, belonging to the class Diadel- phia, order Decandria, and to the natural family Leguminosce. B. C.—A tree of considerable size, with pinnate leaves, and reddish-lilac flowers in panicles, with short pedicles. P. P.—In rather thick fibrous pieces, of a brownish-ash colour. It has a heavy odour, and a mawkish bitter taste; is pulverulent, the powder resembling jalap. C. P.—It contains a brownish-yellow, crystalline, very bitter, alkaline substance, which has been named Jamaicina, and on which its medicinal properties depend, colouring matter, gum, fecula, woody fibre, &c. Th. E.—A powerful anthelmintic, especially in cases of the lum- brici ; but in consequence of its frequently producing vomiting, hy- percatharsis, and even delirium, it is now seldom employed ; ad- ministered with due caution, however, it is an excellent vermifuge. Brera states that he has found it peculiarly efficacious when com- bined with valerian. D. & M. of Adm.—It should be commenced in small doses; of the powdered bark, gr. xv. to gr. xxx.—Decoctum Geoffroya, D. (The bark, bruised, si.; water, by measure, ftij.; boil down to ibj.; F