The medical companion, or family physician treating of the diseases of the United States, with their symptoms, causes, cure and means of prevention ... ; a dispensatory for preparing family medicines, and glossary explaining technical terms To which are added a brief anatomy and physiology of the human body ... an essay on hygiene, or the art of preserving health, without the aid of medicine an American materia medica, pointing out the virtues and doses of our medicinal plants also, the nurse's guide. Embracing a treatise on epidemic ... cholera / By James Ewell.

  • Ewell, James, 1773-1832.
Date:
1836
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Credit: The medical companion, or family physician treating of the diseases of the United States, with their symptoms, causes, cure and means of prevention ... ; a dispensatory for preparing family medicines, and glossary explaining technical terms To which are added a brief anatomy and physiology of the human body ... an essay on hygiene, or the art of preserving health, without the aid of medicine an American materia medica, pointing out the virtues and doses of our medicinal plants also, the nurse's guide. Embracing a treatise on epidemic ... cholera / By James Ewell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i] 604 DISPENSATORY. alkali. Aschildren cannot be induced to take the bark in sufficient quantities, it should be administered in the form of clysters, united with a little milk or flax-seed tea, to which may be added a little laudanum. Applied externally by means of a bark jacket, (See page 159,) it will be found to have as salntary an. wa as when exhibited internally. . Quinine.—For this article we are indebted to the French chem- ists. It is an alkali, obtained from the Peruvian bark, and is used’ in medicine in. combination with sulphuric acid, ‘forming: the sul- phate of quinine. It is the most powerful tonic with which we are acquainted, and so superior is it considered to the bark, that it has almost entirely driven that article out of use. Its dose being ex- tremely small, and its taste that of a simple bitter, it will not ‘disa- gree with the stomach when any tonic would be proper, and it may be given to children of any age. Like every other tonic, it should not be given during active fever, nor until, the bowels are thoroughly cleansed. Dose, one. grain every hour or two, accor- ding to circumstances. It may be taken mixed in sirup,,or made ‘into pills with crumbs of bread, or in solution.* The solution is prepared as follows. — Solution of Sulphate of Quinine. —Take ‘a sulphate of quinine, eight grains; water, one ounce ; mix, and then add sulphuric acid, or elixir vitriol, from twenty to. thirty drops. Dose, for adults, a tea-spoonful every hour or two. Pills of Sulphate of Guinier take bh aia of: ‘quinine, twelve. grains ; crumbs of corn bread, or mucilage of gum Arabic, a sufficient quantity to make twelve pills. Dose, for adults, one every hour or two. It would sometimes be advantageous to add a little rhubarb to these pills, to prevent costiveness. Columbo.—Dose, ne acdults,3 in iaenanhl a tea-spoonful to be given in mint tea or water. Ar | fi Infusion of Columbo. —Take of Columbo, Raliseds one ounce a boiling water, one pint. Dose, for adults, a large wine-glassfu every two hours. ‘This bitter is Seis serviceable in cast es bilious crudities. | is.’ loin of. Conken, —Put half an ounce. of coun: Tikiioed. and two drachms of orange peel, in‘a pint of cold water for twelve - hours, then strain ; whan used in hot weather, add half a gill of. brandy. Dose, for adults, a wine-glassful three times a-day. Bit-. ters are properly considered strengthening’ remedies, when not con- tinued too long; they improve the appetite, and strengthen the stomach and bowels, but a constant and. long-continued use. of ‘them, or any one tonic, is generally: prejudicial. . b