A guide to therapeutics / by Robert Farquharson.

  • Farquharson, Robert, 1836-1918.
Date:
1883
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Credit: A guide to therapeutics / by Robert Farquharson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    II 84 THERAPEUTICS. Prescriptions, &c. Tartar emetic, on account of its tastelessness, may be well given dissolved in simple distilled water; and Ringer tells us, and I have amply confirmed his statements, that we may do much good, in some forms of acute bronchitis in children, by dissolving a grain of the salt in a pint of water, and giving a teaspoonful every quarter of an hour for the first hour, and then hourly. In the case of adults, when we wish to avoid the nauseating effects of the drug, we may best do so by the following formula : J§o Antimonii tartarati gr. ij. ; acidi hydrocyanici diluti ri|xxx.; tincturae lavandulse composite Jss.; aquae destillatse ad Jvj. Jss. quartis horis. Liq. op. sed. 5j.; ant. tart. gr. j. ad gr. ij.; mist, camph. Jvj. Misce. Sumat semunciam omni hora donee somnus supervenerit. Highly recommended by Graves and Murchison in the insomnia and delirium of typhus fever. SALTS OF SILVER. Local Action. Physiological. Thercqieutical. The nitrate of silver Nitrate of silver, either in •hardens primarily, but secon- substance or solution, has been darily destroys the cuticle, and used to check the spread of condenses the tissues by coa- erysipelatous inflammation, to gulating their albumen. Its arrest the pitting of small-pox, application may cause ulcera- and to avert the formation of tion of the healthy skin, and bed-sores. checks the activity of granu- It is a good injection for lating surfaces. gonorrhoea, or collyrium for conjunctivitis, and a strong solution is one of our best re- medies for various relaxed or ulcerated conditions of the fauces. In substance, lunar