A manual of family medicine and hygiene for India / by Sir William Moore.

  • Moore, W. J. (William James), Sir, 1828-1896
Date:
1889
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Credit: A manual of family medicine and hygiene for India / by Sir William Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    10. MAGNESIA, CITRATE OE, GRANULAR EFFER^ VESCENT [Magnesia Oitras [Granular]). French : Citrate de Macjnesie.—Is composed of light, white, rough-looking granules, of agreeable, slightly acid taste. Placed in water it effervesces briskly. One or two dessert-spoonfuls or more, put into a tumbler half full of water, will prove a mild but efficient aperient. For feeble persons, 20 drops of tincture of ginger may be added. A small tea-spoonful taken in a wine-glassful of water will act both as an antacid and as a cooling draught. Half a tea-spoonful with twenty minims of spirits of nitric ether, in one ounce and a half of water, forms a cooling febrifuge draught which may be taken during the hot stage of fevers. A cooling and refreshing drink may be made by adding to a tumblerful of cold water, sweetened with sugar, a small quantity of the citrate. The absence of nauseous taste renders it a favourite aperient and febrifuge for children. At one year old the dose would be one-eighth of the above- mentioned quantities. 11. OPIUM, CAMPHORATED TINCTURE OF, commonly called PAREGORIC [Tinctura Camphorce composita cum, Opio). French: Teinture de Camphre composee, ov Elixir paregorique.—A light-coloured liquid, made by macerating opium, benzoic acid, camphor, and anise, in spirits of wine. The combination of other drugs with opium renders this a very useful preparation for cough, bronchial irrita- tion, hooping cough, and chest complaints generally, especially when a cough is hacking and wearisome, and expectoration scanty. It contains two grains of opium in every ounce of the tincture, and therefore must be care- fully measured. The dose for an adult is from 30 minims to 1 drachm, and if used alone it may be taken on white sugar. It is, however, more efficacious in combination with other remedies, as spirits of nitrous ether, and ipecacuanha wine. The dose for a child one month old is
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