The medical guide, for the use of the clergy, heads of families, and practitioners in medicine and surgery / [Richard Reece].

  • Reece, Richard, 1775-1831
Date:
1817
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Credit: The medical guide, for the use of the clergy, heads of families, and practitioners in medicine and surgery / [Richard Reece]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    spoonful of Mindererus’s spirit, No. 10, every three or four hours. Being also a cordial, it is not a proper me- dicine in acute inflammatory fevers, or fevers arising from accidents, or attendant on local inflammation. It is also an useful remedy for suppression of urine, and for gravel, in which cases it may be administered from thirty to forty drops, three times a day, in either the almond emulsion, decoction of marshmallow-rooft, or lin- seed tea. A teaspoonful of a mixture of equal parts of sweet spirit of nitre and spirit of sal volatile, taken twice a day, in two tablespoonfuls of water, or, if the patient be much debilitated, in fhe decoction of rhatany root (see Rhatany Root), will increase the secretion of urine in dropsical complaints, and at the same time strengthen the constitution. Sweet spirit of nitre, if properly made, will not effer- vesce with an alkali, or give a blue colour to tincture of guaiae gum. By age, or exposure to the air, it is so far decomposed as to possess very opposite properties ; it should therefore be kept in the same manner as directed for ether. , The new name for Sweet Spirit of Nitre is Spirit of Nitric Aether (Spiritus A:theris Nitrict.) No. 16. ANTIMONIAL WINE. | This solution of emetic tartar in white wine is more certain in its operation than the common antimonial wine. In inflammatory affections of the chest, and re- cent coughs from obstructed perspiration, administered in a mucilaginous vehicle (see Cough Mixture, No. 66), it relieves respiration, promotes expectoration, and abates fever, by producing a determination to the skin, and quieting the circulation. For the purpose of exciting full vomiting, it is not so efficacious as the emetic tartar or ipecacuan powder, which see. Toes In sciatica and inflammatory rheumatism, antimonial - wine, in the dose of thirty drops, with fifteen of lauda- num, No. 31, in a glass of mint-water, taken every night