A new practical formulary of hospitals of England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Russia, and America; of MM. Magendie, Lugol, etc. Or a conspectus of prescriptions in medicine, surgery, and obstetrics. With the doses of all new and ordinary medicines / Translated from the new French ed. of Milne Edwards and P. Vavasseur, and considerably augmented, by Michael Ryan.

Henri Milne-Edwards

Date:: 1835

Credit: A new practical formulary of hospitals of England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Russia, and America; of MM. Magendie, Lugol, etc. Or a conspectus of prescriptions in medicine, surgery, and obstetrics. With the doses of all new and ordinary medicines / Translated from the new French ed. of Milne Edwards and P. Vavasseur, and considerably augmented, by Michael Ryan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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dually increased to foura day. They are used in neuralgia facialis. The fumaria is sometimes replaced by the black hellebore, but when this is the case, they must be ad- ministered with the greatest care. Pills used in Epilepsy. Hot. D. RK. Zinci oxidi, gr. xx ; Pulv. valarianae, gr. Xxx; Castorei, gr. iv ; Syrupi simplicis, q. 8; In pilulas tres divide quotidie capiendas. M. Dupuytren advises the use of these pills for a long period of time; for a year in some cases of epilepsy. He generally combines with this mode of treatment the use of baths, anda cautery inthe arm, which perhaps does as much, if not more good than the pills. T.] Bictnnya pry ==Ponder aie into the eyes. Saerer of Tutty, P., (oxide of impure zine, sublimated and pulverized 1; butter washed in rose-water, and rose ointment aa 2,) the size of a pin’s head in frictions on the eye-lids. ‘Dry Collyrium. Hot. D. R. Zinci Oxidi;, Sacchari ; Hydrargyri Subuaitle aa ‘8 SS. Reduce it to an impalpable powder, and mix it. It is used in opacity of the cornea. A’ small quantity is blown morning and evening between the globe wf the eye and

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