The medical compass : containing a new and improved companion and key to the medicine chest.

  • Forsyth, J. S.
Date:
[1834]
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Credit: The medical compass : containing a new and improved companion and key to the medicine chest. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    accompanied with specks, and those affections which are characterized by a thickening or swelling of the inner membrane of the eyelids. QUICKSILVER, WHITE PRECIPITATE OF. Only used in combination with lard as an ointment. RHUBARB. Has a considerable tonic and astringent property, as well as laxative power; and after taking it there is generally costiveness for a day or two after. It is employed in indigestion as a laxative, and in weak intestines when it is merely wished to free them from their contents without irritating or debiltating them. It is often combined with tonics whose power in cos- tive habits it increases. Dose.—Fifteen grains to half a drachm. A drachm purges briskly. It operates slowly three or four hours after being taken. Tincture, one drachm to two or more. Observation.—Rhubarb is more employed than any other astringent purgative, for the following reasons : it does not require a large dose, it is very certain in its operation, and does not weaken as many others do. It is used in hypochondriasis, hysterics attended with cos- tiveness, and in nervous head-ache, e. g. Take Rhubarb in powder $ drachm. Nutmeg | drachm. Oil of Peppermint 6 drops. Extract of Chamomile .... 20 grains. Mix and make the mass into thirty pills ; of which two may be taken night and morning in indigestion, and as above. In small doses rhubarb is astringent, and is highly useful in the bowel complaints of children; where there are green slimy or acrid stools, it is the principal remedv in small doses. •> Take Rhubarb 20 grains. Chalk Mixture 2 or 3 ounces. Spirit of Nutmeg § drachm. A tea-spoonful to be taken every four or six hours. Joined with tincture of opium, will frequently cure diarrhoea. Rhubarb imparts its virtues to water and spirit. The compound tincture of rhubarb is a good preparation;