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The study of medicine. Improved from the author's manuscripts, and by reference to the latest advances in physiology, pathology, and practice / [John Mason Good].

  • John Mason Good
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1834
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    128 CL. I.] | CCELIACA. forp. 1. Gen. V. and quietly through the following night, and next day was quite in Srec. V. his ordinary health.”* ; : . Limosis Many of the foregoing remedies have often been combined with pans the oxyde or nitrate of bismuth; and as they have commonly Oxydeand peen more successtul with such adjuncts than when given alone, nitrate of ~ these preparations of bismuth itself may be regarded as an useful bismuth. ie . ° a y carminative. They are especially serviceable when the flatulency is chronic, and accompanied with distressing pain. Before quitting this subject, I will just notice two other remedies for flatulency, because they not only afford benefit at the time, but, by their tonic virtue, have some tendency to correct the disorder radically. Aspalathus The first of these is the tincture of aspalathus canariensis, the canariensis, yosewood, or Rhodium lignum, of the old writers. This shrub Relay readily yields its fragrant essential oil to rectified spirit; and the wood, : ; : tincture is commonly made by macerating four ounces of the wood in a pint of the spirit. It proves a warm, balsamic, and pleasant cerdial in doses of from twenty or thirty drops to a drachm. Etherial The second remedy I have alluded to is the etherial oil, as it is oil. now called, or the oleum vini, as it was called formerly, which is found in the residuum of sulphuric ether, and is easily made to float on the surface by the addition of water. It has a strong, penetrant, and aromatic odour, and readily dissolves in alkohol and ether. It is powerfully sedative as well as cordial, and is sufficiently known to be the basis of Hoffman’s celebrated anodyne liquor. In the Pharmacopeeia of the London College, this anodyne is imitated in the compound spirit of ether, the only preparation in which the etherial oil is an ingredient. For the purpose I am now speaking of, however, it should be dissolved, and in double the quantity contained in the preceding preparation, in the aromatic spirit of Stimulants. ether. [Flatulency admits of being relieved by the generality of stimulant and antispasmodic medicines, such as assafcetida, the strong smelling gums, ammonia, opium, ether, &c. Together with internal remedies, Dr. Darwin applied fomentations to the epigastric region, and Dr. Whytt, stimulating liniments. ] SPECIES VI. LIMOSIS EMESIS. SICKNESS OF THE STOMACH. - REJECTION OF THE CONTENTS OF THE STOMACH, OR TEND- © ENCY TO REJECT. Gas. V. A DISPOSITION to regurgitate, or even the act of regurgitation itself rec. VI. ig not necessarily a morbid affection ; and to render it such, it must be combined with the symptoms forming the generic character, * Hence, Dr. Cullen cautions us against giving this aromatic in apoplectic or paralytic cases. The use of the nutmeg, as a medicinal agent, dates from the time of Avicenna. ‘ The volatile oil is sometimes ordered in the form of an - oleo-saccharum in flatulent states of the stomach ‘and intestines,” &c. See — Dr. A. T. Thomson's Elements of Materia Medica, &c, vol. i. p. 226- bs .
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