The universal dispensatory : containing companions to the tropical, the continental, the family, the country clergyman's, the traveller's, and the military, or officer's dispensaries, or medical chests : detailing the properties, doses, and best methods of exhibiting the contents of each chest, in different climates and countries / by Reece and Co.

  • Reece and Co.
Date:
1814
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Credit: The universal dispensatory : containing companions to the tropical, the continental, the family, the country clergyman's, the traveller's, and the military, or officer's dispensaries, or medical chests : detailing the properties, doses, and best methods of exhibiting the contents of each chest, in different climates and countries / by Reece and Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    It should be thrown up with a flexible tube, longer than the clyster pipes in common use, gently insinuated up the rectum. In consequence of the improper exhibition of this composition, a diarrhoea has been produced, which the reduced state of the patient could ill bear. LOTIONS AND EMBROCATIONS. Ei/e Water. Take of Goulard’s extract of lead, ten drops; white wine vinegar, two drachms; laudanum, thirty drops; distilled water, eight ounces. Mix. ^ For inflammation of the eye, or eyelids. To be frequently applied by means of folds of fine old linen, over the affected eye or eyes. Astringent Eye Water. Take of blue vitriol, one grain ; dissolve in four ounces of distilled water, and add laudanum, thirty drops. To be dropped between the eyelids of the aflected eye, three or four times a day, for films or specks. Uiscutient Lotion. Take of camphor, two drachms; dissolve in rectified spirit of wine, four ounces; then add white wine vinegar, a pint. For strains, bruises, and inflammation, arising from accidents. It may be conveniently applied in the form of a poul- tice, by adding a sufficient quantity of bran to make it of a proper consistence, and pouring on the surface a fresh quantity of the embrocation, when the bran gets dry, or feels warm to the patient. I 2
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