The medical guide, for the use of families and young practitioners in medicine and surgery : being a complete system of modern domestic medicine, exhibiting a comprehensive view of the latest and most important discoveries in medicine, pharmacy, &c. Fourth edition, considerably enlarged and improved / By Richard Reece, M.D.

  • Reece, Richard, 1775-1831.
Date:
1807
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Credit: The medical guide, for the use of families and young practitioners in medicine and surgery : being a complete system of modern domestic medicine, exhibiting a comprehensive view of the latest and most important discoveries in medicine, pharmacy, &c. Fourth edition, considerably enlarged and improved / By Richard Reece, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No. 15. SWEET SPIRIT OF NITRE Allays fever, quenches thirst, promotes the natural secretions, moderately strengthens the stomach, and is said to resist putrefaction; hence it becomes a valuable medicine in fevers, both inflammatory and putrid. It may be given from twenty to thirty drops, in barley water, or with the Mindererus’s spirit, No. 10. In cases of strangury or stoppage of urine, it may be given with advantage in a decoction of marshmallow root, or linseed tea, to which an ounce of castor oil may be added in case of costiveness :• a tea-spoonful of a mixture of equal parts of sweet spirit of nitre, and sal volatile, taken in a mixture of the essen- tial salt of bark, will increase the secretion of urine in dropsical complaints, and at the same time strengthen the constitution. Sweet spirit of nitre, when properly made, should not effervesce with an alkali, or give a blue colour to tincture of guaiacum. By age and exposure to the air, it is so far decomposed as to possess very opposite properties. No. 16. TARTARISED ANTIMONY WINE, Is more certain in its operation than the common antimonial wine, the strength of which cannot be de- pended on, however carefully prepared; it should there- fore be always preferred. In inflammatory affections of the chest, and recent coughs from obstructed perspiration, administered in a mucilaginous vehicle, as directed by Dr. Blount, of Hereford, in the proportion of the cough mixture. No. 66, it much relieves respiration, promotes expectoration, and abates fever, by producing a determi- nation to: the skin ; and in the Doctor’s practice it proved