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
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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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![Therapeutical Effects.—Calomel is seldom employed alone as a cathartic, but combined with other remedies of this class it is very frequently used, chiefly in consequence of its action on the secreting organs, stimulating the liver and intestinal glands to increased action. It is therefore peculiarly adapted for all diseases, attended with func- tional derangement of the hepatic system : as well as for those cases in which there is determination of blood to the vessels of the brain, as in some forms of chronic head-ache, in threatened apoplexy, and paralysis, &c. It is also used with much benefit as a purgative in the early stages of inflammatory disease and of fevers, more especial- ly in the fevers of warm climates, in which it is generally given in vary large doses, from 15 to 30 grains, its cathartic action not being increased in proportion to the dose. Calomel is well suited as a catharic for children, being tasteless, and in general producing copious alvine evacuations without pain ; here also its combination with other purgatives, as jalap or scammony, will be attended with benefit. In verminous diseases it is the best purgative that can be employed, as it not only dislodges the worms from the intestines, but also acts as a poison to them. (See Special Stimulants.) Dose and Mode of Administration.—In powder or pill, from gr. ij. to gr. vj.—Pilula cathartics composite, U. S. (Calomel 3iij-i com- pound extract of colocynth, in powder, §ss., extract of jalap, in powder, 3iij-, gamboge, in powder, gr. xl. ; form them into a mass with water nd divide into 180 pills). An excellent purgative combining effici- ency of action and comparative mildness with smallness of bulk. Each pill contains one grain of calomel ; Dose one or two pills.— Pilula purgantes cum mercurio, Den. (Calomel, four parts ; extract of rhubarb, eight parts ; resin of jalap, one part; oil of orange peel, q. s.: mix). Dose, gr. ij. to gr. viij. Incompatibles.—The alkalies, and their carbonates ; chloride of sodium ; lime water; nitric and muriatic acids ; iodide of potassium; sulphuretted hydrogen, and its combinations ; soaps, &c. Cambogia, (Siamensis,) E. Cambogia, L. Gambogia, [U. S.] D. Siam gamboge; Gamboge. [The concrete juice of an uncertain tree, U. S.] Gum resin of Stalagmitis Cambogia, D.—Stalagmitis Camhogioides, L.—From an unascertained plant inhabiting Siam, probably a species of Hebradendron, E. Cambogia, (Zeylanica), E. Ceylon gamboge ; Gummy-resinous exudation of Hebradendron gambogioides. The plant which yields commercial or Siam gamboge is not yet ascertained ; it is conjectured by the Edinburgh College, to be a species of Hebradendron nearly allied to the Hebradendron gambogioides, from which plant Cevlon gamboge is procured ; but more recent investigations tend to prove that it is the produce of the Garcinia cochinchinensis. It belongs to the Natural family Guttiferm (Clusiacea:, Lindley), and to the Linnaean class and order Monacia Monadelphia. Botanical Characters.—A handsome tree of moderate size, with oppo- site, stalked, leave*; unisexual flowers, sessile and axillary ; and a pleasant, saccharine fruit, about the size of a cherry, four celled, each cell one seeded. Preparation—In Ceylon, gamboge is procured by making incisions into the baik of the tree or removing a piece of it, whence, a viscid, bright- yellow juice exudes, which when dried by exposure to the sun in shallow](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21143602_0092.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
