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The London dispensatory / By Anthony Todd Thomson.

  • Anthony Todd Thomson
Date:
1811
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Credit: The London dispensatory / By Anthony Todd Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cious in atonic deafness ; and applied to the pubis as a poul- tice in retention of urine, owing to a want of action in the bladder, it sometimes 1s effectual in renewing the discharge. The juice is also applied united with oi] to herpetic eruptions. Garlic may be exhibited in substance, the whole clove or pieces of it being dipped in oil and swallowed; or it may be formed into pills. The expressed juice also is given mixed with su- gar: or infusions of the bulb in milk, which was Resenstein’s mode of administering it to children afflicted with worms. It 1s frequently, united with calomel in the form of pill or bolus, in hydropic cases. An ointment is formed by mixing the juice with oil. The dose in substance is from 3] to 31); or from one to six cloves swallowed whole, twice or thrice a day; and in pills, united with soap or calomel from grs. xv to Dy. Of the juice f5{s is given for a dose in any proper vehicle. An overdose, or the too liberal use of it as a condiment, 1s apt to occasion headach, flatulence, thirst, fever, inflamma- tion, and discharges of blood from the hemorrhoidal yes- sels. ; Officinal preparation. Syrupus Alli. D. 3, Attium Cera’, Officinal. Cera; Ravix. Dub. The Onion. The onion is also a perennial bulbous plant, cultivated all over Europe for culinary purposes: flowering in June. : This plant is so well known as scarcely to require a particue Jar description. The bulb is simple, formed of concentric circles, with a radical plate at the bottom, and fibrous roots. The stem is a naked, swelling scape, with fistular, pointed, spreading leaves, sheathing at the base. The flowers are pro- duced in a capital or head, inclosed in a deciduous spathe. Qualities. The odour and taste of the onion do not mate- rially differ from those of garlic, but are much weaker. A little essential oil combined with sulphur is obtained by distil- Jation ; and the recent juice contains sugar, mucus, phosphate of lime, and citrate of lime?. | | Medical properties and uses. —The onion is ‘ considered ra- ther as an article of food than of medicine; when eaten li- berally, it 1s said to produce flatulencies, occasion thirst, head- achs, and turbulent dreams.” As a medicine it is stimulant, diuretic, and expectorant; and may be used in the same cases as garlic. Onions are, however, scarcely ever employed, ex- cept externally as suppurative cataplasms; for which pur- pose they are generally roasted, split, and applied to tumours. 1 Derived from capui a head, on account of the form of its bulb.