The medical pocket-book : for those who are, and for all who wish, to be, physicians ; containing a short but plain account of the symptoms, causes, and methods of cure, of the diseases incident to the human body : including such as require surgical treatment : together with the virtues, and doses, of medicinal compositions, and simples ; extracted from the best authors, and digested into alphabetical order / by John Elliot, M.D.
- John Elliot
- Date:
- MDCCLXXXIV [1784]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The medical pocket-book : for those who are, and for all who wish, to be, physicians ; containing a short but plain account of the symptoms, causes, and methods of cure, of the diseases incident to the human body : including such as require surgical treatment : together with the virtues, and doses, of medicinal compositions, and simples ; extracted from the best authors, and digested into alphabetical order / by John Elliot, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![OPIUM, Anodyne, antifpafmodic, &c. from one fourth of t grain to ij. grains. OPOPON AX. Nervoti3, antifpafmodic, from v. gr. to xv. ORANGE Juke, 7 Ag ]emor> but yvcaker4 ., —-. ■ tee I, J O X Y M E L Simple. Antifeptic, cooling, detergent. O X Y M E L of Squills. Expedorant, diuretic, from half a drachm to j. drachm. Emetic from ij drachms to an ounce. OYSTER. SHELLS Abforbent from xx. gr. to j. drachm. OYSTER-SHELLS calcined. (Their water.) Lithontriptic iv. ounces, or moie. PALPITATION of the heart. Treatment. In proper conftitutiens bleed repeatedly; but where the diforder proceeds from relaxation, the bark and corro- borants. The nervous Tribe, Diuik, volatile fahs, &c. are good j as are alfo b'iiUrs. PALSY, or PARALYSIS. Symptoms. A bis or diminution of the motion or feeling, or both, of fome pait or parts of the body. If it happen to all the pares belo*- the head, it is called Paraplegia ; if to one fide of the body Hemiplegia ; and if to a particular part Paraly&s. Treatment. Emetics, blifters kept open, and ltror.g clyfters ; nervous, attenuating, and ftimulating medicines, as valerian, caitor, muftard, fal c. c. horie-radifh, &c. and mufiard or other warm ftimulating application rubbed into the parts; and to that part of the Jpii.e, from whence the nerves Irving the part itiue. Eleftricity and dry friction* are good, as are alfo chaly« beate, and Bath or Briltol waters. PEARLS. Abforbent from j. fcruple to a drachm. PECTORALS. Elix. pareg, from half a drachm to j, drachm. Pulv. e tragac. c. from j. fcruple to a drachm. Pil. de ftyrace from v. gr. to a fcruple. Oxymel, fcillitic, to half a drachm. Troch. bechic, decoct, peft. Ad libitum. PEEL See Bark. PERIPNEUMONY, or Inflammation cf the lungs. Symptoms. Difficult breathing, with eppreffion and feeming load at the breall ; the breath hot, cough, fever, rednefs in the face, pulfe fomctimes hardly perceptible, but after bleeding, flrong,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21117743_0054.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
