The druggist's general receipt book : comprising a copious veterinary formulary, with numerous recipes in patent and proprietary medicines, druggists' nostrums, etc. : perfumery and cosmetics; beverages, dietetic articles, and condiments : trade chemicals, scientific processes, and an appendix of useful tables / by Henry Beasley.

  • Beasley, Henry
Date:
1871
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Credit: The druggist's general receipt book : comprising a copious veterinary formulary, with numerous recipes in patent and proprietary medicines, druggists' nostrums, etc. : perfumery and cosmetics; beverages, dietetic articles, and condiments : trade chemicals, scientific processes, and an appendix of useful tables / by Henry Beasley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Externally, in the form of tincture, aloes is used as a stimu- . lating application to wounds. Alum. Astringent and styptic. Given in doses of 2 to 4 dr. to horses in diabetes and diarrhoea; but Bourgelat says that its too frequent use induces a phthisical condition. A dose of alum whey, consisting of 2 dr. of the powder in a pint of hot milk, may be given after excessive purging. Cattle require from 2 to 6 or 8 drachms in diabetes and red water; and from 2 to 4 oz. are given to cows, to dry their milk. To calves and lambs it is given in dr. doses, in warm milk, for diarrhoea, &c. Dogs, 10 to 15 gr. Externally it is applied to cracked and greasy heels, joint wounds, sore mouths, inflammation of the eye, chronic discharges from the nostrils, and to arrest bleeding from wounds. Burnt alum is more powerful, and is used as a mild caustic, mixed with honey, to fungous growths, sore mouths, &c. Alteratives. Medicines which, without producing any con- siderable or immediate sensible operation, and without inter- fering with food or work, eifect a slow change in the diseased . action of certain parts, so as gradually to restore a healthy state. Ammonia, Carbonate or Sesquicarbonate of. Volatile Salts. Stimulant and antacid. Dose, 1 dr. to 2 dr. [MoiROUD says from 2 to 8 dr.] to horses in tympanitis, and the last stage of pneumonia. To cattle, in hoven (dis- tension from the fermentation of green food), 1 to 4 dr. [MoiROUD says to 12 dr.] The solution of carbonate of ammonia has the same properties as the Spirit of Hartshorn, which see. Ammonia, Aromatic Spirit of. Properties as the last. Dose, 1^ oz. to 1 oz.; or to cattle in hoven, 2 to 4 oz. Ammonia, Liquid. Water of ammonia is more pungent and stimulant than the carbonate, and is used for the same pur- poses, particularly in tympanitis and hoven, largely diluted with water or some aromatic infusion; but it is chiefly used externally in stimulating liniments : also both internally and outwardly as an antidote to the bite of vipers. The dose of common water of ammonia may be from 2 to 6 dr.; or for cattle to 2 ounces. For small animals from ^ dr. to 1^. The vapor from the liquid ammonia (applied by holding an