The book of prescriptions : containing 3000 prescriptions, collected from the practice of the most eminent physicians and surgeons, English and foriegn, comprising also, a compendious history of the materia medica, lists of the doses of all officinal or established preparations, and an index of diseases and remedies / by Henry Beasley.

  • Beasley, Henry
Date:
1859
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Credit: The book of prescriptions : containing 3000 prescriptions, collected from the practice of the most eminent physicians and surgeons, English and foriegn, comprising also, a compendious history of the materia medica, lists of the doses of all officinal or established preparations, and an index of diseases and remedies / by Henry Beasley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    513 Ijt Antliracokali, 3ij. Ext. Glycyirliizfb, Pulver. ejusdem, ana q. s. Fiant pil. xl. Sumat ij. ad vj. ter die. In Lupus, Chronic Eczema, Impetigo, Psoriasis, and Lepra. Bi.asius. ANTIMONIUM. The preparations of Antimony are alterative, diaphoretic, and emetic: in some cases they prove purgative. They are also employed, especially the potassio-tartrate, as contra- stimulants to subdue inflammation. The potassio-tartrate is also used as an external counter-irritant. The following are the officinal preparations, and their doses. Antimonium Metallicum. Regulus or metallic antimony was formerly cast into little halls, as perpetual pills, which served for a purgative. Antimonii Tersulphurelum (formerly sesquisulphuretum, and sulphuretum nigrum), finely levigated, is alterative and dia- phoretic. Dose, from 5 to 30 grains. Antimonii Oxysulphuretum. [Ant. sulphuretum prteci- pitatum, D.; Ant. Sulph. aureum, E.] Precipitated or Oxysulphuret of Antimony. Dose as an alterative and dia- ' phoretic, 1 to 3 grains; as an emetic, 5 to 15 grains. Kermes Minerale is very similar to the last, and is used in the same manner. Antimonii Oxydum. The dose is variously stated, and its effects probably uncertain. Mr. Tyson says, when prepared by his method (adding the chloride to water and treating the precipitate with sol. of carl), of ammonia), the dose is from one tenth to 1 grain, and that the latter often vomits and purges. Other authors state the dose to be from 2 to 5 grains. Antimonium Calcinatum. Calx Antimonii lota. Uncertain ; but less active than the preceding. It was formerly prescribed in doses of 5 to 10 grains or more. It is an antimoniate of potash. Pulvis Antimonii Composilus. Antimonial powder. Dose, as an alterative, 1 to 3 grains; as a diaphoretic, 3 to 8 grains. Tn large doses it is emetic and purgative. James's Poivder >«