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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    employed, on account of its rapid but transient effects, for (he relief of spasmodic and nervous affections not connected with inflammation ; as in spasmodic asthma, angina pectoris, cramp of the stomach, spasmodic and flatulent colic, hiccough, nervous palpitation, fainting, &c. Externally, it is applied to produce cold by evaporation; or if the vapour is confined, as a stimulant and rubefacient. Inhaled, it produces insensibility to pain, and is used for this purpose in painful and protracted operations. In some cases, fatal results have followed its inhalation. The other aethers have a similar effect as diffusible stimuli, but with some differences. /Ether Nitrosus and Spiritus JEtheris Nitrici are mildly stimulating, and more decidedly diuretic, or diaphoretic if the patient be kept warm. Oleum /Ethereum is anodyne and calmative; but is seldom given alone. /Ether Acelicw is much used on the Continent, internally, as a mild stimulant, diaphoretic, antispasmodic, and nervine; externally, in stimulating liniments ; and alone, in gentle frictions in Gout. /Ether Hydrochloricus, Muriatic Ether, is regarded as diuretic and diaphoretic. What has been termed Chloric /Ether is a solution of chloroform in alcohol. Chloroformyl, Chloroform, is classed with the .Ethers; it is given as a pleasant and effective antispasmodic, in spasmodic asthma, colic, cholera, &c.; and is used externally as a stimulant and anodyne; and to arrest phagedrenic ulceration. Inhaled, it is now preferred to aether for producing insensibility to pain; hut requires caution. The doses of the officinal sethereal compounds are: JEther [Sulphuricus], 20 minims to a fluiil-draclim, or sometimes more. Spiritus JEtheris compositus, from half a fluid-draclim to two. zEther Nitrosus, 10 to 20 minims. Spiritus JF.theris Nitrici, half a fluid-draclim to two. JEiher Aceticus, from 5 to 30 or 40 drops. zEther Mnriuticus, 10 to 30 minims. Spiritus JEtheris Muriaticus, 20 minims to a drachm. Chloroformyl [chloroform], 3 to 12 drops; in delirium tremens, to a drachm. JEiher Chloricus is of uncertain strength, and usually contains 1 part of chloroform to C or 7 parts of alcohol. [yEther Anaestlieticus (chlorinated hydrochloric ether), Amvleue, Dutch liquid, and some other ethereal compounds, have been used for inhaling.]