The medical formulary : being a collection of prescriptions derived from the writings and practice of many of the most eminent physicians in America and Europe : to which is added an appendix, containing the usual dietetic preparations and antidotes for poisons : the whole accompanied with a few brief pharmaceutic and medical observations / by Benjamin Ellis.

  • Benjamin Ellis
Date:
1842
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Credit: The medical formulary : being a collection of prescriptions derived from the writings and practice of many of the most eminent physicians in America and Europe : to which is added an appendix, containing the usual dietetic preparations and antidotes for poisons : the whole accompanied with a few brief pharmaceutic and medical observations / by Benjamin Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Camphor with Myrrh. R. Camphorae pulverizatae, 3j. Pulveris gummi Myrrhae, ^ss. Sacchari albi, £i]. Aquae destillatae, 3vj Misce.—Signa.—A table-spoonful to be given every two hours. Mixture with Oil of Turpentine. R. Olei Terebinthinae, gtt. cxx. Pulveris gummi Arabici, Sacchari albi, aa. 3ij. Tincturae Opii, gtt. Ix. Lavendulae compositae, 5'j- Aquae Menthae sativae, gv. Fiat mistura.—Signa.—A table-spoonful for a dose every two hours. This remedy has gained great reputation in some of the low forms of fever. The author once employed it in the dose prescribed above, in passive hemorrhao-e from the bowels, with complete success; and in he- morrhage from the bladder, resulting from low fever, he knows it to have been given with equal advantage. Linctus with Oil of Turpentine. R. Olei Terebinthinae, 3ij. Mellis optimi, 5j. Fiat linctus—Dose a tea-spoonful night and morning, with a draught of warm tea. In Sciatica. Emulsion of Phosphorus. R. Phosphori puri, gr. ij. Mucilaginis Arabici, q. s. Let these articles be carefully and effectually triturated in a mortar, and add gradually as much distilled water as will make an emulsion of 2vj. then add— Syrupi simplicis, ?j. Liquoris Hoffmani mineralis, gtt. xxx. Fiat mistura.—Of which the usual dose is a table-spoonful every two hour?. 18
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