A guide to therapeutics / by Robert Farquharson.

  • Farquharson, Robert, 1836-1918.
Date:
1883
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    portable means of using this invaluable drug may yet be intro- luced. Lemon-juice was formerly vaunted as a specific for acute ieumatism, and although this has not been confirmed by ex- )erience, there is no doubt that persons afflicted with chronic 'heumatic pains may often derive benefit from taking a table- ipoonful of this agreeable remedy two or three times a day with iheir meals. Lemon-juice has also been called a refrigerant, ?ut its sole claim to this title rests upon the great facility with vhich we may construct refreshing effervescing draughts by its dd. INDIAN BAEL (BELiE FRUCTUS). Indian bael, containing tannin, has astringent properties, and as been highly praised as an effectual cure for the more chronic rms of dysentery. Only partial confirmation is given by home jxperience to the evidence furnished from abroad ; but this may e explained not only by the limited opportunities of testing its mcacy in this country, but because the drug is probably much nore active when used in a perfectly fresh state. OIL OF THEOBROMA, eing a firm, solid, and agreeable substance, is much used in he manufacture of suppositories. GAMBOGE. Local Action. Gamboge has no local action, and differs from some other medies of the same class by not exerting its purgative effects rhen applied to a raw surface or injected into the cellular .issue. Constitutional Action. Physiological. Therapeutical. On the Digestive and Gamboge is a drastic, hy- hcreting Organs.—Gamboge dragogue cathartic, formerly