Minor medicine : a treatise on the nature and treatment of common ailments / by Walter Essex Wynter.

  • Wynter, Walter Essex.
Date:
1907
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: Minor medicine : a treatise on the nature and treatment of common ailments / by Walter Essex Wynter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

    109/298 (page 95)
    24 or 36 grains, and Syrup of Orange ^ j. Dose: *5 j every two, three, or four hours. Other formula} are ;— Ijt. Ijiq. Ferri Perclilor. ni xv Sp. C^hloroformi, in, x (ilycerini, tti xx Aquam destill, ad 5j Three times a day. Liq. Il5xlrarg. Pcrchlor. 5.i I’otassii lodidi, gr. v 8p. Am. Arom., nt xx Decoct. Cinch, ad 5] Three times a day. In the acute stage, when there is much fever, the following complex mixture is advocated: Liq. Ferri Perchloridi . . . ni, xv Liq. Hydrarg. Perchloridi. . . tti xv Tdq. Strychninm iil v Tinct. Aconiti til iij Potass. Cldoratis . . . . gr. v Glycerini 3 j Aquam destillatam . . . . ad § j Three times a day. This is powerfully antiseptic and may be gargled or held in the back of the mouth for a moment before being swallowed. It should not be continued for more than two days, by which time the fever will usually have declined. In all these prescriptions glycerine is introduced to prolong the local effect in the throat. Owing to pain and difficulty in swallowing, nourish- ment must be given in liquid or semi-liquid form. Milk, beef-tea, arrowroot with milk, and jelly are the most convenient. Fluids taken hot are comforting. All applications to the throat should be made subsequent to taking food, so as to prolong their local ejffect as much as possible. In a later stage, when the fever and more acute symptoms have declined, the diet must be liberal, and a mixture of quinine, strychnine, and ammonia, such as the following, should be ordered before meals : IJ. Tinct. Nucis Vomicm . . . iri v Tincturje Cinch. Co. . . . 3ss Sp. Ammon. Aromat. . . . ni xx Aquam Chloroformi . . . ad. 5j