Domestic medicine or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners. To which are added, observations on the diet of the common people ... / [William Buchan].

  • Buchan, William, 1729-1805
Date:
1798
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Domestic medicine or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners. To which are added, observations on the diet of the common people ... / [William Buchan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ^ xxt ] A LIST* of the MEDICINES commonly ufcd in Practice, with their proper Dofes. ^CACIA, the elcprefled juieet Acid, the acetoas —> , muriatic ~ f nitrous> diluted - — . vitriolic, diluted ^ther, vitriolic ~ iEthiop’s^, mineral —^ Aloes — —. Alum ~ ——, burned — Amber, prepared — Ammoniac, gum — - , milk of — Angelica, the root powdered Anife, the feeds — Antimony -=• — —— , calcined glafs of — Afafcetida -, milk of from I fcrnple to 1 fcruple lo drops — 15 drops -»»■ 15 drops — 30 drops —- 10 grains — 5 grains —- 6 grains — 3 grains —- - I drachm — 5 grains — - \oz — - ^^Irachm — - 10 grains — 10 grains — i fcruple — - I; grain — • 6 grains — half oz. — Afarum, to provoke fneezing B Balfam of capivi Canadian — — of Peru — of Tolu '— Bark, Peruvian, powder Bears foot, powder — Benzoin, refin of -**• , flowers of — Biftort, powder of the root Blefled thiftle — • , exprefled juice of Bole, Armenian — —— , French — —> Borax — — Broom, afhes of the tops — ,Burdock, powder of the root I drachm 1 drachm 40 drops 40 drops 40 drops 2 drachms 30 grains 30 grains 20 grains 12 grains I drachm 30 grains I ounce 11 drachm 1 drachm I d achm 1 drachm 2 grains half a dra. 1 ounce 3 grains — 5 grains — 20 drops — 60 drops 2 ferup. 10 grains 4 grains 10 grains 1 fcruple 10 grains 2 dra. 10 grains 10 grains 1 icruple 10 grains 2 drachms 20 grains 20 grains 20 grains 1 drachm 1 drachm 2 ounces 2 drachms 40 grains I drachm I drachm - { * *0 3 alterative 3 do. to 12 do. purgative i grains to half a drachm Canell* Calomel Camphor