A new collection of medical prescriptions, distributed into twelve classes ... with ... remarks, exhibiting a view of the present state of the materia medica ... / By a member of the London College of Physicians [i.e. R. Pearson].

Date:
1791
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Credit: A new collection of medical prescriptions, distributed into twelve classes ... with ... remarks, exhibiting a view of the present state of the materia medica ... / By a member of the London College of Physicians [i.e. R. Pearson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    four, or five times a day, according to its effects, in water. Intended for children. Rosenstein. 5. Gamboge Powder. Take of Gamboge, three grains, White fugar, a fcruple : Rub together into a powder. To be taken every three hours. In dropfies. Cullen. This author is of opinion, that gamboge* in moderate dofes, repeated foon after one another, proves fafer and more effectual than when given in large dofes at once. In this manner, he found it to operate without vo- miting or griping; and at the fame time, after three or four fuch exhibitions, a great deal of water was evacuated both by ftool and urine. 6. Powder with Senna. Take of The compound powder of fenna, L. Ph. two fcruples : Give for a dofe. 7. Powder
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