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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    . H. No. 12, JEther. A tea-spoonful in a glass of peppermint, or pure water, in spasmodic colic, cramp of the stomach, and asthmatic, hysteric, epeleptic and fainting fits. A dessert spoon- ful in a wine-glass of camphorated julep, Dr. Lind, and other practitioners, have found an admirable remedy when the gout flies to the stomach. It often gives ease in the most violent head-ach by being applied externally to the part, and to relieve the tooth-ach by being laid on the afflicted tooth and jaw by means of lint.—It should be swallowed as quickly as possible, and kept well corked and inverted in water, to pre- vent its exhalation. See Antispasmodic 1Mix- ture, No. 59. No. 13, Sweet Spirit of Nitre \ Allays fevers, quenches thirst, promotes the natural secretions, moderately strength- , ens the stomach, and resists putrefaction; hence it becomes a valuable medicine in fevers, both inflammatory and putrid.— It may be given from twenty-five to thirty drops