The domestic medical guide: or, complete companion to the family medicine chest / [Richard Reece].

  • Reece, Richard, 1775-1831
Date:
1803
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Credit: The domestic medical guide: or, complete companion to the family medicine chest / [Richard Reece]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sant to the palate, and a laxative admirably suited to a delicate stomach : an ounce of either may be taken in half a pint of whey or peppermint-water, or when a more dras- tic purge is necessary,- with an infusion of senna, as the aperient mixture, (No. 51.) In the same manner may be taken the Cheltenham salt, a solution of which in the proportion of half an ounce to a pint, affords a good substitute for the purging mineral waters. Three drachms or half an ounce of the Brazil salt, dissolved in half a pint of whey, taken every morning will prove an excellent aperient medicine in bilious affections, piles, Saint Anthony's fire, and scorbutic erup- tions of the skin. No. 3, Cold-drawn Castor Oil, To the extent of an ounce, or twelve drachms, affords a valuable purgative medi- cine in cases of spasmodic colic, habitual cos- tivcuess, or piles. It may be taken conve- niently in half a glassfull of peppermint- water, swallowed oft*as it floats on the top; a table-