The medical guide, for the use of the clergy, heads of families, and practitioners in medicine and surgery / [Richard Reece].

  • Richard Reece
Date:
1824
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Credit: The medical guide, for the use of the clergy, heads of families, and practitioners in medicine and surgery / [Richard Reece]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sation of heat and great redness: .on the contrary, if the part of the body to which it is applied be exposed to the air, its rapid evaporation will produce an intense degree of cold, and, in this manner, it has proved more beneficial in acute pains, particularly when attended with increased heat. Ether should'be always taken in.a cold vehicle, and swallowed as quickly as possible ; and the bottle should ‘be well corked, and kept in a cold place, inverted in water to prevent its escape. (See Antispasmodic ‘Mixture, No. 70.) The once celebrated anodyne liquor of Hoffman, ‘and ‘Clutton’s febrifuge spirit, are weak zthers. Good ether ‘should not redden the colour of litmus, nor produce:a-precipitation with a solution of barytes. The ‘new name of Atther is Sulphuric Aither (Aither Sulphuricus). No. 15. SWEET SPIRIT OF NITRE. This preparation of :nitre, in the dose of twenty to thirty drops in a little water, allays fever, quenches thirst, promotes the secretion of urine, moderately strengthens the stomach, and resists putrefaction ; hence it becomes. a valuable medicine in the first stage of low nervous fevers. It may be given with a small dessert- -spoonful.of Mindererus’s spirit, No. 10., every three or four hours. Being also a cordial, it is not a proper medicine in acute inflammatory fevers, or fevers arising from accidents, or attendant on local inflammation. It is also an useful remedy for suppression of urine, and for gravel, in which cases it may be administered from thirty to forty drops, three times a day, in either the almond emulsion, decoction of marshmallow-root, or lin- seed tea. A tea-spoonful of a mixture of equal parts of -sweet spirit of nitre and spirit of sal volatile, taken twice a day in two table-spoonsful of water, or, if the patient be much debilitated, in the decoction of rhatany root: (see Rhatany-root), will increase the secretion of urine -in dropsical complaints, .and.at the sametime strengthen the constitution.
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