Domestic medicine, or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines : containing observations on the comparative advantages of vaccine inoculation, with instructions for performing the operation, an essay, enabling puptured [sic] persons to manage themselves, with engravings of bandages, which every person may prepare for himself, and a family herbal / by William Buchan, M.D. of the Royal College of Physicians, Edingburgh ; to which are added, such useful discoveries ... as have transpired since the demise of the author.
- Buchan, William, 1729-1805.
- Date:
- 1823
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Domestic medicine, or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines : containing observations on the comparative advantages of vaccine inoculation, with instructions for performing the operation, an essay, enabling puptured [sic] persons to manage themselves, with engravings of bandages, which every person may prepare for himself, and a family herbal / by William Buchan, M.D. of the Royal College of Physicians, Edingburgh ; to which are added, such useful discoveries ... as have transpired since the demise of the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![very sudden effect in tlcprcssing the circulation, and inducing an inter- mission of the pulse, siclinos* at stomacli, willi languor and laintnesi> its lise must be innnediately sus])en(led, lest sudden death ensure. The judicious physician above mentioned very properly insists that tlie pii- tient should be seen by his medical attendant at least every day, as fevf persons are so conversant with the slate of the pulse and respiration ai to enable them to judge of the propriety of continuing or suspending the use of this herculean medicine; Tincture of Hops.—Take of good fresh hops, half an ounce; spirit a wine, ten ounces; digest for seven days, and strain. The dose from forty to a hundred drops, to adults; to younger persons it must be given in diminished doses, according to the proportions directed in p. 41G,417.— Hops are one of the most agreeable of the strong bitters; but they have been rarely till of late employed for any medicinal purposes : yet it l>as been known for many years, thai a pillow stuffed with hops, or the odour of hops hung in a bed, induced sleep after opium had failed; but al- though hops'are a narcotic like opium, unlike the latter it seems to have rathe^r a laxative effect. The hop has recently been recommended by men of great medical experience, and is said to have succeeded m such cases as'required a light, agreeable bitter, combined with an anodyne quality. In loss of appetite and restless nights; m various cases of dyspepsia attended with pain and flatulency of the stomach and bowels; in painful cases of gout, gravel, stone, or biliary concretions ; in severe pains of child-bed women, and other cases where opium could not be ex- hibited in the usual forms without producing violent head-ach or other very troublesome symptoms; here, says Dr. FothergiU, a strong infusion of the hop, pursued freely both internally and externally, has seldom failed to procure a calm, tranquil sleep.—The best preparation is said to be the tincture. The ingenious Mr. Freake has also prepared an extract of hops, which has been exhibited in pills twice a-day along with draughts containing the tincture, with considerable success, in gouty aflections. Volatile Tincture of Gum Guaiacum.—Take of-gum guaiacum, toui ounces; volatile aromatic spirit, a pint. Infuse without heat, in a vessel well stopped, for a ftw days: then strain off the tincture.—In rheuma ic complaints, a tea-spoonful of this tincture may be taken in a cup ol the infusion of water trefoil, twice oi thrice a-day.—A very good tincture ot guaiacum, for domestic use, may be made by infusing two or three ounces of the gum m a bottle of rum or brandy. .mi Tincture of Black Hellebore.—Infuse two ounces of the roots of black hellebore, bruised, in a pint of proof spirit, for seven or eight days; then, lilter the tincture through paper. A scruple of cochineal may be mtusetl along with the roots, to give the tincture a colour.—In obstructions of the menses, a tea-spoonful of this tincture may be taken in a cup ot cam- omile or pennyroyal-tea twice a-day. . . Tincture of Gum Kino.—Digest two ounces of gum kino in a pmt and a lialf of brandy, for eight days ; afterwards strain it lor use.—This tine- line though not generally known, is a good astringent medicine, ^^ltll this'view, an ounce, or more, of it may be taken three or four times a. '''l^incture of Myrrh and Aloes.-Take of gum myrrh an ounce and a half; hepatic aloes, one ounce. Let them be reduced to a powder, un.»](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21441017_0474.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
