A manual of family medicine and hygiene for India / by Sir William Moore.
- Moore, W. J. (William James), Sir, 1828-1896
- Date:
- 1893
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A manual of family medicine and hygiene for India / by Sir William Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![the liver and spleen, in neuralgic affections of the head, in rhenmatic affections, and in amenorrhoea. Locally, it is applied as a lotion to enlarged glands or swellings. Its principal use is the formation with nitre of a cooling lotion or a freezing mixture. [Vide Eecipe 83.) 3. ASSAF(ETIDA [Assafoetida). Hind.: Sing,—Assa- fcetida. is the gum resin of a plant growing in Persia and Norfeliei’n India. It occurs in the form of irregular masses partly composed of ‘ tears,’ of a dark pink, or, if long kept, of a dull yellow colour. Assafoetida is stimulant and antispasmodic, and is useful in hysteria, flatulence, and in the nervous affections of females. The dose is from 5 to 10 grains, hut it is generally given in com- bination with other remedies, and is mostly used as an injection. In exceptional instances, assafoetida excites giddiness or even fainting. It is rarely used for children. Assafoetida enters into Eecipe 105. 4. BAEL [2Egle Marmelos, called also Stone Apple). Hind.: Bael geerie.—A tree growing in India, the fruit of which is used medicinally. The fruit is about the size of an orange, with a hard woody rind, divided inside into ten or fifteen cells, containing a quantity of seeds and tenacious transparent pnlp. It has a mild tui’pentine- like smell and taste. It contains tannic acid, and there- fore acts as an astringent to the bowels, and is also slightly aperient; a union of qualities not found in other astrinerents. It is useful in chronic diarrhcea and dysentery. Also in that irregularity of the bowels so often presenting in children, marked by alternations of diarrhoea and constipation. The decoction and the syrup are the best forms for taking bael. 'J'/ic decoction is made as follows: Coil 3 ounces of the dried fruit— or, if ohininahle, H ounce of the half-ripe fruit, discarding rind and gyedg—in a ])int of water until it evaporates to one half-pint. The dose is a wine-glassful for an adult three or four times daily. Syrup of bad](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28136044_0034.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
