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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    substances, and also in detergent and antiseptic lotions to foul ulcers. 334 R Alumin® purse, 3ss. Acacia; pulv. 3j. Sacchari albi, Jij. Aquse Foeniculi, f giij. Misce. A teaspoonful to be given frequently. In Diarrhoea of Children.—Riecke. 335 R Aluminse Acetatis, gr. x—xx. Aquse destillatse, f giij. Fiat injeetio. Dr. Pereira. 336 R Aluminse Sulphatis, 3ij. Aquse destillatse, f jvirj. Plat lotio. To Foul Ulcers.—Dr. Pennypacker (U.S.) [Tannate of Alumina is commended by Mr. B. Harrison and others, in injections; but they appear to have used a spurious salt. We therefore omit their formula;.] AMMONIA. AMMONIA CARBONAS, &c. Ammonia, whether in its caustic state or combined with carbonic acid, is antacid, diaphoretic, and stimulant. It sti- mulates the stomach and increases the action of the heart and arteries, without unduly exciting the brain. It is prescribed, in the form of some of the compounds mentioned below, in fainting, and sinking of the vital powers from haemorrhages, &c.; in poisoning by prussic acid and other sedatives; in some cases of scarlet and typhus fever, and delirium tremens; and as an antidote to the bites and stings of venomous reptiles and insects. Ammonia has also been supposed to remedy the nervous disorders produced by alcohol and tobacco. The sesquicarbonate is less irritant than the caustic ammo- nia (as contained in Liquor Ammonice); the bicarbonate is still milder. The Sp. Ammonite aromalicus, etfoetidus, L., contain a car- bonate of ammonia; the same preparations of the E. and D. Ph., and the simple Sp. Ammonice, E., contain ammonia in a caustic state, and are consequently rather more irritant. The vapour of Ammonia is applied to the nostrils as a stimulant in faintness, nervous headache, vertigo, suspended