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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    to edge, as well as from the hack to the tip—but that if diseaso is on tlio decline, tho fur will occupy the centre alone, going gradiuilly backwimls, leaving the edges and the tip. Thus, by a simple rule, imeitingly clotoctecl by tho eye, that fonu of medication can bo adopted which shall arrest disease or hasten its depai-tm-e. In the same way, also, is pointed out when a more noxmishing diet should be coimuenced; for delay in this is not unfrequently attended with injm'ious consequences. Again, the more aggravated cases of congestive action will —according to tho seasons and many other circmnstances, occurring in tho mansion as well as tho cottage,—frequently change to or terminate in scarlet-fever. Tho tongue, before fmred and coated, will, when this happens, become sud- denly clean and red; the body and face being meanwhile suffused with a scarlet blush. The following fonns of medi- cine, quite opposite to the preceding, will now be as impera- tive as tho others were before :— 2 drachms. 57. Take— Dilute muriatic acid 3ii Syrup of red poppies jii 2 „ Water ^vss 5§ ounces. Mix. Give a tea-spoonful or desscil-spoouful every hour or half-hour, aocoiiiing to the age of tlie child. 58. Take- Dilute muriatic acid 5iss Paregoric eli-xir 5ii Syrup of red poppies 3ii Water ^vss ounces. Mix. Give a dessert-spoonful or table-spoonful every hour or two, accord- ing to the age of the child. 59. Take- Dilute sulphuric acid 5i Syrup of red poppies 3ii IJ di-achms. 2 drachms, o Water ^vss 1 drachm. 2 di'achms. 5J ounces. Mix. Give a des.sert-spoouful or table-.spoonful every liour, according to the age of the child. 60. Take— Dilute sulphuric acid ji Paregoric elixir jiii Syrup of red ]X)ppies 3ii Water ^v Mix. Give a dessei t-spoouful or Uible-spoonful every hour or two, according to tlie age. 1 drachm. 3 drachms. >) J t 5 ounces.
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