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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    Hydrochloric acid is refrigerant, tonic, antiseptic, and ver- mifuge. The diluted acid is used in malignant typhus and scarlet fever ; in cases of phosphatic urinary deposits; and sometimes in syphilis. It is also used as a gargle in malignant sore throat, &c. Nitric acid is tonic and antiseptic; in chronic hepatitis; in indigestion, especially when connected with mixed urinary deposits of uric acid and the phosphates; and in syphilitic affections in broken-down or scrofulous constitutions. It has also been found useful in hooping-cough, and in asthma. Dr. Arnoldi prescribes it diluted to the strength of lemon juice, and sweetened; in this way he has given as much as a drachm of the strong acid per diem to a child of two years old. The red fuming nitric acid, commonly termed nitrous acid, is sometimes preferred, particularly in cholera. Strong nitric acid is used locally as a caustic to warts, sloughing phagedanue, haamorrhoidal excrescences, &c.; and in a more diluted form to superficial ulcers which are in- disposed to cicatrize, and to offensive ulcers, and caries of the bones. The vapour of nitric acid is disinfectant; but probably inferior to chlorine. Nitro-hydrochloric (nitro-muriatic) acid, is thought to act more decidedly on the liver than the preceding, especially as applied to the skin by foot -bath and sponging. It is also used in syphilitic and mercurial cachexia, cutaneous diseases, &c. The preparations and doses are as follow : Acidum Hydrochloricum purum, 5 to 30 minims. — dilution, L. 30 to 60 minims. Julepum Acidum [Guy’s II.], ad libitum. Acidum Nitricum Dilntum, L. 10 to 40 minims. Acidum Nitro-murialicum [nitro-liydrocliloricum], 6 to 20 minims. dilutum, 10 to 40 minims. Nitricum alcoholisalum, 30 minims. 69 Ijt Acidi Hydroclilorici, Jj. Aqure destillatse, f 3xiv- Syrupi, f ijij. Misce: suruunturf 3>j sulnnde. In Typhus, Scarlatina, and Angina.—Dr. Gregory.