Directions for the medicine chest / prepared by Lewis Heermann.

  • Heermann, Lewis, 1779-1833.
Date:
1811
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Credit: Directions for the medicine chest / prepared by Lewis Heermann. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    .h and bowels by air, this medicine gives speedy relief in doses of 20 or 30 drops upon a small lump of white sugar, and mixed with about one table spoon full of water or gin and water. 17 BALSAMIC ELIXEH.—Or.e tea spoon full may be taken twice or thrice a day, on a lump of loaf sugar and a little water; and the phial ought each time to be well shaken. It is used in gleets and in the latter stage of the clap when the inflammation has subsided and the running continues from a weakness of the parts. The occurrence of a rash like eruption on the skin during the use of this medicine, requires a dose of No. 37 and an omissio* of the use of the drops for two or three days ; when they may be again resumed •Without any apprehension of producing the same effect a second time, 18. VACANT PHIAL.—For the conveniency of dispensing medi- cine in it, instead of trusting a bottle full into the careless hands of a jailor. 19. VOLATILE LINIMENT.—A tea spoon full to be rubbed in at nifght, and a flannel to be kept applted next to the skin where the friction has been used. It is an excellent external remedy for the mumps, for sore throat, rheumatic pains, kink in the neck, &c. 20. LAUDANUM.—Twenty-five or thirty drops with ten drops of No. 16 on a lump of loaf sugar and two table spoons full of water, ie the handgomest method in which it can be exhibited a3 a draught to allay pain, restrain excessive vomiting or purging-, and to procure sleep. In Spasms of the stomach and in cholera morbus, the patient may take 30 or 40 drops at first, and if in half an hour there are no pros- pects of relief, 15 drops more may be given every 15 or 20 minutes by the watch, until the object for which it was, given is attained. This practice may appear bold, but without pushing it to the necessa- ry extent ; smaller quantities would rather aggravate than relieve, the violence of the compliant ; and it is here thought proper to re- mark, that although, no correct bounds can, in these cases be prescribe cd, it is seriously recommended not to trifle with it, and to give it in every instance of indisposition, where pain and restlessness impresses the idea of giving relief by this remedy, instead of seeking it by the use of the lancet or of purgative medicines. In obstinate agues, that have resisted the baik, or who from their recurrence every day, leave so small an interval of time, as not to al- low the use of that medicine insufficient quantity to check it, a dose of laudanum given an hour before the-fit has been expected, has entire- ly suspended it and given an opportunity for the use of the bark to ciuc the disease. From two to five drops of laudaijiun with each dose of bark arc Kecessary if it runs off by p urging.