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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    sions, on account of their sedative properties, as well as for the flavour. Aqua Amygdala amarce is made of very different degrees of strength; and as no form is given for it in the British pharmacopoeias, it is necessary for the prescriber to specify the kind intended. That of the Prussian pharmacopoeia con- tains two thirds of a grain of pure prussic acid in an ounce, which is about the average of the Continental preparations. Dose, from 10 to 30 drops, sometimes increased to 60. A formula for a much weaker kind has lately been introduced iuto the United States pharmacopoeia. A still weaker kind is sometimes sold under the name of black cherry-water. The leaves and kernels of the Peach (Araygdalus Persica) have similar properties. The flowers are laxative. 480 9 Amygdalae dulc. excort. 3vj.* Amygd. amarce excort. 3'ij. Aqua;, f gxyj. Fiat emulsio secundum arteni. Sumat coclxl. ij. bis terve die. Sedative and Demulcent.—Beral. 481 Emuls. Amygd. dulc. (ex Am. dulc. 31'j.) 3j. Amygdaline, gr. xvij. Solve. Bose, from teu to thirty drops. In the same cases as Ac. Hydrocyanicum.—Woehler. 482 9 01. essent. Amygd. amarce, gtt. xx. Spirit. Viui rectiticati, 31'i.i. [f 3iv.] Misce. From 10 to 20 drops three times a day. In Facial Neuralgia.—Radius. AMYLUM. Starch. Wheat starch and the starches of other plants (as of potato, arrow root, &c.) are demulcent and slightly nutritive. They are also used in enemata, in irritated states of the rectum; the powder is dusted on the skin to absorb irritated secte- tions, and to allay inflammation in some affections of the skin. It is much employed in the nursery for the excot iatious of infants. Starch is an antidote for poisoning by iodine. The only officinal preparations are Decoctum Amyli and Trochisci Amyli.