A guide to therapeutics / by Robert Farquharson.

  • Farquharson, Robert, 1836-1918.
Date:
1883
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    student on the very brink of an examination would think of burdening his memory with them all; and we shall only refer, therefore, to those which form part of the daily stock-in-trade of the practical physician. Dialysed iron has recently come into fashion, and is said to be effective and well borne as a tonic in dose of 5 to 20 min., whilst we are also told that it is a good and readily procurable antidote in cases of arsenical poisoning. Vinum ferri may be given in doses of from 5j. to 3 ij.; mistura ferri aromatica, gj. ad gij.; mistura fern composita* §j. ad i ferri carbonas saccharata, gr. v. ad 5j.; syrupus ferri iodidi, iijxx. ad 3 ij.; ferri et ammonias citras, gr. v. ad x. ; ferri et quinise citras, gr. v. ad xx. ]J, Tincturse ferri perchloridi lf|X.j spiritus chloroformi n|xv.j glycerini gss. ; infusi calumba? ad gj. Ter die sumend. Chaly- beate mixture. IJ, Mistura? ferri composita?, decocti aloes compositi, aa gss. Misce, fiat haustus ter die sumendus. R Magnesia? sulphatis 3 ij.; ferri sulphatis gr. xxiv. ; acidi sulphurici diluti 3 ij.; infusi calumbae ad 3 viij. Misce, fiat mistura. Capiat cochlearia duo magna omni mane. - Ferru- ginous aperient. Tinct. ferri perch, gij.; ]>ot. cit. 5j- '1 syrupi limonis gjss.; aquae ad §ij. An agreeable combination. Iron, as a rule, is best taken after a meal, but we must warn our patient to avoid the neighbourhood of tea, as the mixture of these two ingredients forms a species of ink which is both nauseous and unsightly. As the more astringent preparations not only stain but injure the teeth, they may be conveniently sucked through a glass tube. TOXICS. The word tonic is undoubtedly vague from the strictly scien- tific standpoint, but we may congratulate ourselves that zeal for more precise nomenclature has not yet succeeded in depriving us of a term which has now included so many associations of an