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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    AURUM. Gold. The preparations of gold excite the secretions, sometimes salivate, and if too freely given, produce great local and general irritation, and act as irritant poisons. They are classed among the special stimulants and alteratives, and are used by frictions on the tongue and gums, and endermically, as well as administered internally, in syphilis, scrofula, scirrhous and cancerous diseases, lepra, and amenorrhoea. Metallic gold, in a finely divided state, produces the constitutional effects of the remedy in a milder degree, without proving a local irritant. Of the salts of gold, the chloride of gold and soda (Auro-Sodii Chloridum, Sodii Auro-terchloridum, vel Auri et Sodee Murias vel Hydrochloras) is most used. The preparations and their doses are— Auri Pulvis, from Jtli of a gr. to 1 gr. (I-5th to 4 a gr.—Legrand). Auri Chloridum [Terchlondum, vel Perchlori- , From l-20th to l-10th durri], I of a gr. In frictions, Auro-Sodii Chloridum, vel Sodii Auro-Terchlori- f from 1-lGth to l-6th, dum, 1 gradually increased. Auri Cyanidum, j j.r i_i5th to l-10th of a grain. lodiaum, I n Sulpliuretum, 1-I0tli of a grain to a grain and a half. Aurum Stanno Paratum (Purple of Cassius), l-15th to l-10t,h of a grain (?). Trochisci Auri, and Track. Auri Cyanidi, 1 to 4 daily. Unguentum Auri is applied in frictions, and also to the surface from which the cuticle has been removed by a blister. Syrupus Auri is also used topically. 707 Auri pulveris, gr. vj. Amyli pulv. gr. xxxvj. Misce, et div. in partes xij. Sumat unam quater die. Reicke. 708 9 To be rubbed on day. Auri pulveris, Lycopodii, ana gr. ij. Misce. the tongue and gums, in divided portions, during the In Syphilis, Sfc.—Reicke. 9 Auri pulveris, 3j. Syrupi Acaciae, 3j. Misce. In Syphilitic Ulceration. 709