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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![Allium, [U. S.] Allium sativum, D. L. E. Garlic. A native of Italy, Sicily, and the South of France, commonly cultivated in our gardens; belonging to the class Hexandria, order Monogynia in the Linncean arrangement, and to the Natural family, Liliacea. Botanical Characters.—Stem a foot and a half to three feet high, sur- rounded with many linear grass-like leaves, and bearing a head of many whitish flowers emerging from a membranous spatha. Preparation.—The bulb is dug up for use in the month of August, cleaned and dried in the sun, and kept in bunches in a dry place. Physical Properties.—The bulb, as it is termed, consists of sev- eral small bulbs, called cloves, grouped together within a common membraneous covering, which when dry is of a dirty whitish color, and a withered aspect; the cloves have each their proper covering, they are white and succulent, of a strong, disagreeable, peculiar odour, and an acrid, pungent taste. Chemical Properties.—Garlic consists of acrid volatile oil, fecula, albumen, and a saccharine manner; its medical properties depend on the volatile oil, which is heavier than water, of a yellowish color, and a very penetrating odour; it is composed of 6 atoms of carbon, 5 of hydrogen and 1 of sulphur (Wertheim). Therapeutical Effects.—Garlic, though now seldom employed as an anthelmintic in regular practice, is an excellent remedy in ascari- des. Roque states that he has employed it with great success ; he gives the infusion by the mouth and in clyster, and at the same time causes friction to be made with a liniment of it over the abdomen. Dose and Mode of Adminstration.—In substance, gss. to §j. swal- lowed whole, or made into pills with soap ; of the expressed juice, min. xx. to min. xxx. on sugar ; of an infusion prepared by infusing gss. of the bulb in fgij. of water or milk, f5ij. to f3iij. two or three times daily.—Syrup of Garlic, (Garlic, one part; boiling water, eight parts : sugar, sixteen parts ;) Dose, fgss. to f§j. Artemisia santonica, semina ; D. Worm-Seed. The substance which is met with in the shops under this name is imported from Bar- bary and the Levant, and appears to be a mixture of fragments of flower-buds and their footstalks. It is incorrectly stated by the Dub- lin College to be the seeds of the plant above named. Physical Properties.—The fragments are smooth, of a green- ish-yellow color ; have a strong, aromatic odour, and a bitter taste. Chemical Properties.—It contains an extractive matter, to which the name of santonins has been applied and on which its anthelmin- tic properties are supposed to depend, acrid volatile oil, and other un- important substances. Therapeutical Effects.—Not much employed in this country, though still considered a very excellent anthelmintic in several parts of the Continent. It is used in cases of ascarides and lumbrici. Dose and Mode of Administration.—Gr. xx. to gr. xxx. made into an electuary with honey may be given to children night and morning, followed by a brisk purge.— Vermifuge powder, P. (Worm- seed ; Corsican mess ; wormwood ; tansy ; scordium ; senna; and rhubarb, of each equal parts ;) Dose, 3ss. to 5i-—Vermifuge bolus, P. (Wormseed, gr. viij. ; calomel, gr. ij. ; camphor, gr. vj. ; syrup, q. s. for one bolus). Dose, one to two daily.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21143602_0039.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
