More secret remedies : what they cost and what they contain, based on analyses made for the British Medical Association. (Secret remedies, 2nd series).
- British Medical Association
- Date:
- 1912
Licence: In copyright
Credit: More secret remedies : what they cost and what they contain, based on analyses made for the British Medical Association. (Secret remedies, 2nd series). Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![derived could bo identified. The liquid was compared with tinctures of drugs that are or have been used for worms, but with only negative results. No. VII.—It is stated in the book that: No. VII is the Specific for gout {and is a tincture of N%ix Moschata [Nutmegs], prepared according to a special formula and from specially selected fruits). In the more recent pamphlet no information is given as to what it is prepared from. The dose is given a6 twenty to thirty drops in water, three times daily. Analysis showed it to contain: Alcohol 51.05 per cent, by volume A tincture of nutmeg was prepared (not, however, according to a special formula ) and compared with it, and the two were found to agree in all respects. No indication was obtained of any other ingredient; the proportion of nutmegs appeared to be about 1 part to make 5 parts of the tincture. The cost of the contents of a 2s. 9d. bottle would be about 2d. No. VIII is for whooping-cough; but little is said about it in the book, and it was not examined. No. IX is described as: The specific for mechanical haemorrhages (and is aloes, prepared accord- ing to a special formula). It was not analysed. No. X is described as the specific for bruises, to which is added in the book (and is ' Wallace's Formula' of Arnica Montana), but in the later pamphlet nothing is said about the drug from which it is made. It is stated that it does not produce the slightest erysipelatous swelling or other irritation of the skin, which is so frequently experienced with the ordinary homoeo- pathic mother tincture of arnica. For this reason the curative action or healing power can be pushed to such a demonstration as to surpass ordinary credibility The diseases, symptoms, conditions, (and mechanical injuries for which ' No. X ' is the specific remedy include bruises, strains, sprains, shocks (electric or otherwise) . . . Effects of tight-lacing . . . Corne resulting from mechanical pressure. Painful effects of straining with constipated movetmeants of the bowels. . . . Effects of violent fits; of mi8ca.rrda.geB, Ash 0.22 1.0 2.1 Reducing sugar Fat and extractive etc.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b23982159_0231.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
