Volume 2
Thesaurus medicaminum. A new collection of medical prescriptions, ... / [Richard Pearson].
- Richard Pearson
- Date:
- 1794
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Thesaurus medicaminum. A new collection of medical prescriptions, ... / [Richard Pearson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![To prevent griping, a drop or two of oil of peppermint, or any other effential oi], may be added to thefe pills. Pills with Gamboge and Calomel. Taxe of Gamboge, four grains : Rub it well with a little fugar, and add of Calomel, three grains, - Compound extract of colocynth, L. Ph. fifteen grains : With balfam of Peru, make into eight pills, for two equal dofes. ‘The fecond dofe to be repeated half an hour after the firft. Proper in dropfical cafes. Varied from HarTMANN. Nicolai is very warm in the praifes of gamboge in this intention. He prefers the affociation of it with kali, or the vegetable fixed alkali, under which form it operates not only as a purgative, but like- wife asa powerful diuretic. Formerly it was ufual to join a variety of fub- {tances, but particularly alkaline and neutral falts with gamboge, under the notion that they aéted as correctors of its fuppofed virulence; but this notion, and the practice founded upon it, are now laid afide. For the purpofe, however, of promot~ ing the cathartic and diuretic operation of this gum- refin,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28779204_0002_0082.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
