A dispensatory and therapeutical remembrancer : with a full and distinct version of every practical formula, as authorized by the London, Edinburgh and Dublin royal college of physicians, in the latest editions of their several pharmacopias ... / By John Mayne ... Rev., with the addition of the formulæ of the United States pharmacopia, etc. By R. Eglesfeld Griffith.
- Mayne, John
- Date:
- 1848
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A dispensatory and therapeutical remembrancer : with a full and distinct version of every practical formula, as authorized by the London, Edinburgh and Dublin royal college of physicians, in the latest editions of their several pharmacopias ... / By John Mayne ... Rev., with the addition of the formulæ of the United States pharmacopia, etc. By R. Eglesfeld Griffith. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![the chest, jaundice, &c. Dose as emetic grs. x.—grs. xx., in pill, as nauseant gr. i.—grs. v. (Extl.) acts on fungous surfaces as escharotic. tincttjra sanguinary, xj. s. Tincture of Blood-root. Prep.—Blood-root bruised siv., diluted alcohol Oii.; macerate 14 days, express and filter. Use.—{Intl.) as above. Dose, as emetic f5iii.—f3iv-» as ex pectorant or alterative gtts. xxx.—^i.] Scilla, u.s. l. e. scilla maritima, d. Squill, (v. Diuretics.) Use.—(Intl.) will produce vomiting if given to the following amount. Dose, grs. x.—grs. xv. (of dried bulb) powdered; but never selected for emetic purposes. oxymel scill^e, u. s. l. d. Oxymel of Squill—(and) sy- rupus scilla, u. s. e. Syrup of Squill. Prep, of both—vide under Diuretics. Use.—(Intl.) sometimes employed to empty the stomach of young patients. Dose, 3i., or more. Siliapis, u. s. l. sinapi, e. The seeds of S. Nigra and S. Alba, (u. s.) sinapis nigra, d. The seeds of S. Nigra, (l.) Flour from the seeds of S. Nigra (generally mixed with those of S. Alba), and freed from fixed oil by expression, (e.) Powder from the seeds of S. Nigra, (d.) (the latter college gives also Sinapis Alba, White Mustard seeds.) Mus- tard. Use.—(Intl.) to induce vomiting in some cases of paralysis, &c. Dose, 3ii.—|ii. (of the bruised seed, or the powder) dif- fused in tepid water. Tabacmn, u. s. l. e. nicotiana tabacum, d. Tobacco, (v. Diu- retics.) Use.—To form the following:— infusum tabaci, u. s. d. Infusion of Tobacco. Prep.—See Diuretics. Use.—(Extl.) applied to the epigastrium to induce vomiting in extreme cases, where the usual emetics have proved unavailing. Veratrum Album, u.s. d. veratrum, l. e. White Hellebore, (v. Cathartics.) Use.—(Intl.) only in urgent cases where drastic action of the stomach is required. Dose, gr. i.—grs. v.; more employed as a remedy for pediculi, &c.; or as an errhine.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21013950_0166.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
