A formulary of selected remedies with therapeutic annotations : adapted to the requirements of general practice, hospitals, dispensaries, parish infirmaries, lunatic asylums, and other public institutions, with index of diseases and remedies, diet tables, etc. / by E.A. Kirby.

  • Kirby, Edmund Adolphus, active 1867.
Date:
1874
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Credit: A formulary of selected remedies with therapeutic annotations : adapted to the requirements of general practice, hospitals, dispensaries, parish infirmaries, lunatic asylums, and other public institutions, with index of diseases and remedies, diet tables, etc. / by E.A. Kirby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    (iS-) Creasoti. Creasote, min. xx. ; P. Aromat., gr. lxxx. M. ft. pil. 20. Creasote is employed to check nausea and retching occurring in various diseases, also in sea-sickness, pregnancy, etc. Sometimes creasote will give great relief by arresting the vomiting caused by malignant disease of the stomach. In these pills it is easily taken. It has been given with good effect to check profuse expectoration in chronic bronchitis. Dose—One pill three or four times a day. Small doses, often repeated, act more efficaciously than large doses. This remark applies to a large number of medicines. We are too much bound by habit and custom in this respect. There is much to be said in favour of the gradual introduction of active medicines into the system. (16.) Hyd. Iodid. et Morphise. ]f Hyd. Iodid. Rub., gr. jss.; Morphias Hydroch., gr. j. M. ft. pil. 12. An anodyne alterative, useful in ulcerous and tubercular diseases of the skin, especially in syphilitic constitutions. Dose—One night and morning. See also No. So. (I7-) Hyd. Iodid. et Arsenici. Jf Hydrarg. Iodid. Rub., gr. j. ; Arsenici Iodid., gr. j. ; Potass. Iodid., gr. xx. M. ft. pil. 20. Intended as a convenient substitute for Donovan’s Solution. It has been largely prescribed, and is a very favourite remedy with many practitioners. It is given with excellent effect in psoriasis, and in obstinate squamous and ulcerous diseases of the skin, as well as in cachectic cases, in which both iodine and arsenic in minute doses are very successful. Dose—One three times a day, after food.