Thesaurus medicaminum. A new collection of medical prescriptions, distributed into twelve classes, and accompanied with pharmaceutical and practical remarks, exhibiting a view of the present state of the materia medica and practice of physic in this and other countries / By a member of the London College of Physicians [i.e. R. Pearson].

Richard Pearson

Date:: 1804

Credit: Thesaurus medicaminum. A new collection of medical prescriptions, distributed into twelve classes, and accompanied with pharmaceutical and practical remarks, exhibiting a view of the present state of the materia medica and practice of physic in this and other countries / By a member of the London College of Physicians [i.e. R. Pearson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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In slight dysenteries this practitioner assures us, that he has used this solution with the utmost success; giving it at first without the alum, in sufficient doses to cause evacuations, and afterwards with the alum in nauseating doses, frequently with opiates at night. This he has found far more ef- ficacious in dysentery than the tartarised antimony, ipecacuanha, rhubarb, or salts, as evacuants, in whatever manner combined or administered. But where a dysentery has been of long standing, the cure necessarily must be performed by slow de- grees; then a dose every night and morning will be sufficient. It is in inveterate cases to be con. tinued for weeks or months, omitting it now and then. 3 In table spoonful doses it generally causes a vo- miting, or great nausea, and sometimes a purging, for the first few times of taking it. When the sto- mach is foul, vomiting may be encouraged by cha- momile tea, otherwise that is unnecessary. If after it has been taken several times, it stil] create vo- miting, or more nausea than is easily supportable (for some nausea is intended) the dose must be diminished. If it contmue to purge more than is proper, or cause any griping, neither of which often happens, a few drops of tincture of opium ipust be given occasionally, or every night, at bed — time. The solution of vitriolated zine is also recom- mended in all pulmonic oppressions, where respi

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