Ourselves, our food, and our physic / by Benjamin Ridge.

  • Ridge, Benjamin
Date:
1861
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Credit: Ourselves, our food, and our physic / by Benjamin Ridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EMETICS AND THEIR USES. when infants lose flesh or become emaciated. Their object is to prevent too great an action of the bowels ; thus giving time for Nature to derive from the fseeal deposits in the largo intestines important nitrogenized and vital elements. 49. Take— Prejiared chalk ,^■’8 i ounce. Water .V*® IJ ounces. Mi.T. Give a des.sert-spoonful after every liquid motion, if they he frequent, causing diarrhoea. 50. Take- Prepared chalk ,^ss J ounce. Simple synjp 3'* “ *I*'achms. Water 5* >’ Mix. Give a des.sert-s)>oonful after each liquid motion, as in No. 49 ; the syrup is merely added to soften the rawness of the chalk. 51. Take— Ipecacuanha wine 3>i 2 drachms. Simple syrup S'* 2 ,, Water S** ^ ounce. Mix. Give a tea-spoonful every five minutes, until the child vomits. 52. Take— Antimonial wide 3i> 2 drachms. Water Jvi 6 „ Mix. Give a tea-spoonful every ten minutes, till vomiting is excited. These emetic-mixtures are to bo given after a meal; No. 52 will be the more preferable when children arc gross and plethoric, pale-looking, waxy, or doughy—a state that too frequently precedes convulsions from an overloaded stomach. On the day following a vomit and the use of the antacid medicines; two or three grains of the grey powder may be given, followed in two hours afterwards by a tear spoonful of castor oil, which serves to carry off the powder, so that it may not become absc^rbed; whereas if the castor oil bo given alone, it often produces costiveness of the bowels aftenvards. 53. Take— I|)ecacuaidm wine . f'aiJjonate of soda . Sweet s])irit-<! of nitre Syrup of snflron ^Vatcr .... gi 1 drachm. 5*® i >> 3®s i » Xii '2 drachms. 5VS8 ounces. Mix. Give a dessert-spoonful every two or three hours.
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