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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    with red wine or brandy.—The ordinary drink wine-whey,— negus, acidulated with the juice of oranges or lemons. : The chamber of the patient should be kept cool,—the floor eften sprinkled with vinegar,—free ventilation,—fumigations by casting pulverized nitre over a chafing-dish containing live charcoal, or with oxy-muriatic acid gaz ;—all sources of putrid ) effuvia should be removed, and the patient’s linen often changed. Great attention ought to be paid to the state of the bowels ; and irritating faeces should be prevented from accumulating by the occasional use of laxative enemas. 11. By stimulant, tonic, and astringent gargles 3——such are— an infusion of capsicum, of roses acidulated, solutions of myrrh,. ef matine acid, of a watery extract of bark in port wine: K. Seminis capsici annui contusi 3fs. Aque ferventis 3vij. Mellis ros 3tij. Tincture oo 3Y. Fiat gargarisma. RK. Infusi rose 3yj Tincture myrrhe 3}. Acidi sulphurici diluti 1 She M_. pro gargarismate. K. Extracti cinchone mollis 3]. Vini rubri generosissimi SV. Fiat gargarisma, Should these be insufficient, the parts may be touched with mel zruginis, with powdered myrrh or alum, by means of a @amel-hair pencil, with: marine acid mixed wich honey.—