Medical formulæ of new and improved chemical and pharmaceutical preparations.

Date:
1881
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Credit: Medical formulæ of new and improved chemical and pharmaceutical preparations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE BURROUGHS H A Z E L IN E. Active Principles distilled from the Bark of Witch Hazel. (Hamamelis Virginica Lin.) Note the following reports from the U. S. Dispensatory upon the use of the plant :— Witch-Hazel, which is a shrub indigenous to the United States, first attracted the notice as a remedy of the Indians, who are said to have used it as a sedative and discutient in painful tumors, and other cases of external inflammation ; also, in hasmorrhoidal affections and ophthalmia. Dr. James Fountain, of Peekskill, N/V., speaks in strong terms of its efficacy in hemorrhage of the Lungs and Stomach, and also highly recommends it as one of the best applications in external Piles. Dr. N. S. Davis (President American Medical Association) agrees with Dr. Fountain in his estimate of the remedy, and has also employed it usefully m incipient consumption, Ringer's Therapeutics (Page 325;. Dr. Preston has employed it largely and success- fully in epistaxis (nose bleeding), and his experience is confirmed by that of many writers. It is very servicable in hemoptysis and hematemesis (vomiting of blood). 44 Witch-Hazel is very highly recommended in Pues, both to check bleeding and to cure the diseased veins. I have found it singularly successful and prompt m this form of bleeding, even when amounting to half-a- pint a day, repeated almost daily, for months or years. It is also very useful for Piles if it is employed as an injection. . , , , . , It should be injected each night at bed time, and before breakfast. The injection should be retained. 1. _ Burroughs, Wellcome & Co., London.