The physician's vade-mecum. Containing the symptoms, causes, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of diseases. Accompanied by a select collection of formulae and a glossary of terms / by Robert Hooper.

  • Robert Hooper
Date:
1809
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Credit: The physician's vade-mecum. Containing the symptoms, causes, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of diseases. Accompanied by a select collection of formulae and a glossary of terms / by Robert Hooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1. By nutritive diet ;—regular exercise, if the state of the pa- tient render its use practicable ; and one of the following tonics : 1, CINCHONA OFFICINALIS :—The Peruvian bark. This heroi¢ medicine is to be given in substance, and in large doses3 if the interval be long, its exhibition should be delayed till within six or eight hours of the time of the accession of the cold fit; should there be any inflammatory diathesis, this ought first to be reduced during the hot stage of the preceding pa- roxysms, by saline diaphoretics ; where there is great debility, the bark may be joined with wine and aromatics ; if it occa- sion purging, with opiates and astringents ; if costiveness, with rhubarb. RK. Pulveris cinchone 3}. Divide in partes xij equales, quarum capiat unam in horas vel secunda vel tertia quaque hora ex cyatho parvo lactis vaccini, absente febre. KK. Pulveris cinchone 3}. —-—— aromatici 3f{s.. M. et divide in chartulas xij. K. Pulveris cinchone 3}. A Confectionis opiate 3]. M, et divide in partes xij aquales. a R. Pulveris cinchone 3}. ——— rheei dij. M. et divide in partes xij aquales. * Of each of the above formule the dose is one part every one, two, three, or four hours,