Diseases of the stomach and intestines : a manual of clinical therapeutics for the student and practitioner / by Dujardin-Beaumetz ; tr. from the 4th French ed. by E.P. Hurd.

  • Georges Octave Dujardin-Beaumetz
Date:
1886
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    6CoKSicA]sr Moss. This is a mixture of nearly twenty-five different species of algas. The specimens seen in commerce vary according to the source from which they are derived. Corsican moss has a very strong and disagreeable marine odor, and a very salty taste. According to Beuvier's analysis, it contains in 100 parts: Vegetal gelatine, Vegetal stroma, Calcium sulphate, Chloride of sodium, Carbonate of lime, Iron, magnesia, silica, phos. lime, There are also traces of iodine. 60.2 11. .11.2 9.2 7.5 1.7 The Phakmaceutical Forms. 1. Decoction or infusion; half an ounce to 5 or 6 ounces of water. To be drank freely. 2. The powder. Dose 15 to 120 grains (1 to 8 grams) in sweetened water or milk. 3. Jelly, dose one or two ounces. 4. Syrup, 1 to 3 ounces, decoction is also given in lavements; one to two ounces. Vermifuge Potior. Take of: Corsican moss, simple syrup, of each . . 1 ounce. Boiling water, 6 ounces. Infuse the moss an hour, strain, express and add the syrup, the whole at one dose, or in two doses. Take Vermifuge Milk. (Bouchardat.) Take of: Corsican moss, 1 part. Boiling milk, 20 parts. Sugar, .. . 4 Infuse and express. To be given freely to children of from one to five years of age. Anthelmintic Powder. (Bouchardat.) Take of: Corsican moss, 20 parts. European wormseed, ... . . .20 Calomel, 3 Dose—7 to 30 grains. Keflexions et observ. sur les accidentsproduits paries vers lombrics (Journ. hebd. Paris, 1829. t. iv). Thomae Bartholini, Epist. rnedicin., cent. I, epist. lxii, 1644, HagEe Comitum, 1740. Broussais, Hist, des phlegmasies chroniques. Paris, 1826, 4e edit. t. iii. Lieutaud, Historia anatomica-medica sistens, obs. 907. Vasa Biliara lombricis obturata. (Parisiis, 1767, t. i.) Fauconneau-Dufresne, Pre- cis des maladies du foie et du pancreas, Paris, 1826. Laennec, diet, des sciences Medicales, article Ascarides. Lebert, Traite d'anat. patholog. gen. et spec. Paris, 1857, t. i. Davaine, Traite des entozoaires, 1860.