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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    pint of mucilage of gum Arabie or water. To be used as the above. | Or, dissolve one grain and a half of | corrosive sublimate in half a pint of water. ‘To be used as above. > ~ Or, take of mercurial ointment, one drachm ; sweet oi] one ounce. Mix. This injection should be warmed previously to using. These injections may be made.weaker or stronger, according to circumstances. ‘The first and second injection are decidedly aie best in recent cases. When the scalding of the urine is troublesome, four drops of mu- ‘riatic acid to two ounces of water, or one part of acetated ammo- nia, to eight or ten of water, are often useful as injections. . In obstinate cases of gonorrhea the mercurial injections, as above, will be found most beneficial : and in obstinate gleets, the ryote = have been employed with very happy effects. _ | Injection of Tea.—Take of green tea, one drachm ; boiling ¥ wa- ter, six ounces; macerate in a close vessel till cold, and strain. Or, take of kino in powder, two drachms ; alum, one pin : mucilage of gum Arabic, one ounce; spring water, one pORAA, o— Mix and strain. Injection of Capaivi.—Take of balsam capaivi, one drachm ; mucilage of gum Arabic, half an ounce; rose or spring water, six ounces. Rub the capaivi and mucilage well together, and add the water. ‘This, as well as the preceding injection, is, perhaps, better fitted for females, when a discharge is kept up from a relaxed state of the folds of the vagina, whether arising from gonorrhea, from too frequent coition, or from the fluor albus, or whites. At the commencement of sonorheed, the irritation is often so great as to occasion the greatest possible distress ; the urethra then being so exquisitely Naniaile that the shghtest distentivn of its ori- fice or canal, even by fluids of the blandest nature, gives the most exquisite pain. ‘The urine, in such cases, is scanty and high color- ed; and whenever it is passed, aggravates all the symptoms, leav- ing an increased desire to pass more urine, attended with a burning smarting pain. The intention of cure, then, would be to lessen the inflammation of the parts, by removing the distention, and of di- minishing the stimulating properties of the urine. With this view, - besides evacuating medicines and diaphoretics, particularly the cam- phorated powders and leeches, should be applied to the under part of the urethra along its whole course, and pale salimning er etcauane to the penis. : | Om | : ~ -CLYSTERS.. fh alain Simple and Emollient Clysters.—Milk ond water in equal parts. Flax-seed tea. Mallow.tea. Infusion of quince-seed. Barley wa-