Medicines, their uses and mode of administration : including a complete conspectus of the three British pharmacopoeias, an account of all the new remedies, and an appendix of formulae / by J. Moore Neligan.
- John Neligan
- Date:
- 1849
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Medicines, their uses and mode of administration : including a complete conspectus of the three British pharmacopoeias, an account of all the new remedies, and an appendix of formulae / by J. Moore Neligan. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![tinued for a longer period, it acts as a sedative to the vascular Bystem, (See Sedatives). As a diuretic in the various forms of dropsy, digitalis has acquired a high reputation, but later experience has shown, that it proves most serviceable in those symptomatic dropsical effusions, which take place into the cellular membrane of the extremi- ties of the face, and which depend on diseases of the heart, of the kidneys, or of the liver. It is also better adapted as a diuretic for persons of a weak or enfeebled habit of body, than for the strong or the robust; and should any inflammatory symptoms be present, antiphlogistic treatment should be had recourse to before employing digitalis. The diuretic action of foxglove is much promoted by com- bining it with small doses of calomel, or with other remedies of this class, as squill, juniper, the diuretic salts of potash, &c. ; when there is much debility present, preparations of iron are advantageously com- bined with it. Dose and Mode of Administration.—Of the powder gr. ss. every six hours, its operation being aided by the use of the diluents, and the surface of the body being kept cool; administered thus, it generally produces a copious flow of urine after the fifth or sixth dose.—Infusum Digitalis, D. L. E. [U. S.] (Digitalis, dried, 5i. (5ij. E.) ; spirit of cinnamon, §ss. (f§i. [U. S.] L. f§ij. E) ; boiling (distilled, L.) water, by measure R)ss. (Oi. L. fgxviij. E.); [Oss. U. S.] digest for 4 hours in a covered vessel, strain (through linen or calico, E.), and add the spirit.) This is the best preparation of digitalis ; the dose is f5ij. to fgss., every six hours.—Tinctura Digitalis, D. L. E. [U. S.] (Digi- talis, dried (and coarsely powdered, the larger leaves being rejected, D., in moderately fine powder, E.), §ij. (§iv. [U. S.] L. E.) ; proof spirit, by measure Ibj. (Oij. [U. S.] L. E.); macerate for 7 (14, L.) days and strain. Best prepared by percolation, as directed for tincture of capsicum ; iff§xl. of spirit be passed through, the density is 944, and the solid contents of a fluid ounce amount to gr. xxiv- E.). This tincture if well prepared, has a greenish colour when viewed by transmitted light. Dose, min. xx., three times a day ; it may be given in f§i. of decoction of broom-tops, combined with sweet spirits of nitre, and compound spirit of juniper.—Pilula Digitalis et Scillai, E. (Digitalis; and squill, of each, one part; aromatic electuary, two parts ; beat into a proper mass with conserve of red roses, and divide into four-grain pills). An excellent diuretic pill; Dose, one pill every five or six hours. Incompatibles.—Sulphate, and tincture of the muriate, of iron ; the preparations of cinchona bark; and the acetates of lead. JuNIPERUS COMMUNIS, CACUMINA, FRUCTUS (bACOE, D.), ET OLEUM, D. L. E.—The tops, the fruit, and the volatile oil of the fruit, of Juniperus communis ; [Juniperus. The fruit of Juniperus Communis, U. S.] Common Juniper. Indigenous ; belonging to the Natural family Conifera (Pinacece, Lindley), and to the Linnaean class and order Dicecia Polyandria. Botanical Characters.—A bushy shrub from two to [eight feet high, evergreen ; Leaves, linear, mucronate; Flowers appearing in May, axillary, small; Fruit, a berry (galbulus), three-seeded, requiring two seasons to ar- rive at maturity. Preparation.—The tops are cut in spring before the plant flowers, and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21143602_0164.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
