Favorite prescriptions of distinguished practitioners, with notes on treatment : comp. from the published writings or unpublished records of Drs. Fordyce Barker, Roberts Bartholow [etc.] ... / By B. W. Palmer.

  • Palmer, B. W. (Benjamin W.)
Date:
1884
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Credit: Favorite prescriptions of distinguished practitioners, with notes on treatment : comp. from the published writings or unpublished records of Drs. Fordyce Barker, Roberts Bartholow [etc.] ... / By B. W. Palmer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    This is an admirable mixture to procure sleep for fever patients, without having it followed by the dis- agreeable effects so usual when opium is used in large doses to accomplish this purpose. In Epilepsy in Weak and Anaemic Subjects. ]J Potass, bromidi 3 j. Ferri bromidi gr. iv. Aquae § ij. Syr. simplicis § vj. M. Sig.—A tablespoonful twice a day. Bart ho low. These cases are often dependent on cerebral anaemia alone, and are cured easily by using the above for- mula. For Sub-Acute Mania and the Monomania of Suspicion. IJ Hyoscyamiae gr. j. Sp. aetheris , m. viij. Alcohol m. xxiv. Aquae fontis ad. 3 j. M. Take at a draught. Lawson. Dr. Robert Lawson, late of the West Riding Asy- lum, has recently made a large number.of physiologi- cal and therapeutical observations on the actions and uses of the alkaloid of hyoscyamus. He has derived great benefit from the use of the above formula in re- current, acute, and, sub-acute mania and the mono- mania of suspicion.