The American physician, and family assistant. In four parts: containing, I ... A general description of vegetable medicines. II ... The manner of preparing them for use. III ... Description of diseases and manner of curing them. IV ... A description of mineral and vegetable poisons, given by those called regular doctors, under the name of medicines / By Elias Smith.

  • Elias Smith
Date:
1826
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Credit: The American physician, and family assistant. In four parts: containing, I ... A general description of vegetable medicines. II ... The manner of preparing them for use. III ... Description of diseases and manner of curing them. IV ... A description of mineral and vegetable poisons, given by those called regular doctors, under the name of medicines / By Elias Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is completely extracted by alcohol, and ‘partly by water. - | “Cayenne pepper is an indiscriminate mix- ture of the powder of the dried pods of many species of capsicum, These peppers have been chiefly used as a condiment, [tor season- ing. or a sauce.] They prevent flatulence (or wind) from vegetable food, and have a warm kindly effect upon the stomach. An abuse of them, however, gives rise to visceral obstruc- ‘ions, especially of the liver. Of late they aave been employed also in the practice of medicine. ‘There can be little doubt, but trongest stimulants, that can be introduced nto the stomach; while, at the same time, hey have nothing of the narcotic effects of ar- lent spirits. : “Dr. Adair Makitrick, who was perhaps the irst that employed them as a medicine, di- ects them to be given to the extent of six or. ight grains, under the form of pills, or in tinc- ure, made by infusing half an ounce of the ods, in a pound of rectified spirits, and to be iven from one to three drachms in a dose, le has found them useful in a variety of af- ections, particularly in that morbid disposi- ion, which he calls the cachexia africana, and hich he considers as a most frequent and fa- il predisposition to disease among tte slaves. x. Wright says, that in dropsical, and other omplaints, where chalybeates (impregnated ‘ith iron or steel) are indicated, a minute por- c2