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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![Stramonii Folia et Stramonii Semina, l. stramonium, e. d. datura stramonium, d. Stramonium, (y. Expectorants.) Use.—(Intl.) in epilepsy, mania, melancholia; convulsive af- fections, neuralgia, &c. Dose, gr. i. increased cautiously to ex- tent of grs. viii. ; the extract is preferable. EXTRACTUM STRAMONII SEMINIS, U. S. EXTRACTUM STRAMONII, l. e. d. Extract of Stramonium Seed. Prep.—Macerate near the fire during 4 hours (in a vessel lightly covered) thorn-apple seeds ^xv., in boiling distilled water cong. i. ; take out and bruise the seeds in a stone mortar, then return them to the liquor. Boil down the liquor to Oiv., and strain while hot; evaporate to proper thickness, l.—or—Grind any convenient quantity of stramonium seeds in a coffee-mill; and rub the powder into a thick mass with pf. spirit—place this in a per- colator and transmit pf. spirit till it passes colourless ; distil off the spirit, and evaporate (what remains) in the vapour-bath to due consistence, e.—or—Digest during 4 hours (in a vessel lightly closed) thorn-apple seeds ibi., in hot water cong. i.; take out the seeds and pound them in an earthen mortar, then return them to the liquor and boil down to Oiv.; strain the decoction, and re- duce it to proper consistence, d. Use.—(Intl.) in cases alluded to in the preceding, and in asth- matic cases. Dose, gr. k—grs. ii. daily, as pill. [extractum stramonii foliorum, u. s. Extract of Stramo- nium Leaves. Prep.—Stramonium leaves ifei., bruise them in a stone mortar with a little water ; express the juice, heat it to a boiling point; strain and evaporate to a proper consistence. Use.—(Intl.) in same cases as preceding. Dose, gr. i. 2ce a day, to be gradually increased.] Tabacum, u. s. l. e. nicotiana tabacum, d. Tobacco. (v. Diuretics.) Use.—(Intl.) smoked from a tobacco-pipe, fee.', or chewed (taking care not to swallow the saliva) to relieve attacks of tooth- ache, neuralgic affections of the face, fee. vinum tabici, u. s. e. Wine of Tobacco. Prep.—Digest tobacco cut in pieces §i., in wine Oi., for 14 Stramonium. Mucilag. M. f. B Ext. stramonii massa, in pilulas Glycyrrhizse, pulv. dividenda. Dosis in Saponis die. Acacise, pulv.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21013950_0220.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
