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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![emplastrtjm AROMATicuM, d. Aromatic Plaster. Prep.—Melt together frankincense ^iii., and yellow wax ^ss., and strain ; when just concreting or cooling, mix cinnamon bark powdered ^vi., and rubbed up with essential oil of pimento, and essential oil of lemons, each 3ii., and form a plaster. Use.—Intended as a stomachic plaster application in nausea, dyspeptic cases, &c. Contrayerva, v. s. contrajerva, l. The root of Dorstenia Con- trayerva. Contrayerva. Use.—(Intl.) an aromatic tonic and diaphoretic ; in typhus, and typhoid fevers ; diarrhoea, dysentery, &c. Dose, grs. v.— grs. xxx., in powder ; scarcely now heard of. [Coptis, tr. s. Root of C. Trifolia. Goldthread. Use.—(Intl.) applicable to cases where quassia is indicated ; a very pure bitter, without astringency. Dose, powder grs. x.— xxx.; infusion (^i., boiling water Oi.) f^iss. ; tincture (^i., di- luted alcohol Oi.) f %i.; also used as mouth wash in aphthous ul- cerations of that part. CorilTIS Florida, u. s. Bark of C. Florida. Dogwood. Use.—(Intl.) in intermittent fever, and in all cases where Peru- vian bark is employed, but is inferior to that substance. Dose, 3i., to be repeated so that ^i.—3ii. is taken in the apyrexia. decoctum corntjs florid^, u. s. Decoction of Dogwood. ' Prep.—Dogwood bruised ^i., water Oi., boil for ten minutes in a covered vessel, and strain while hot. Use.—(Intl.) same as decoction of Peruvian bark. Dose, f^ii. Comus Circinata, u. s. Bark. Round Leaved Dogwood. Use.—(Intl.) same as above ; best in infusion (^i., boiling wa- ter Oi.) Dose, f ^i.—^ii. Coi'MlS Sericea, v. s. Bark. Swamp Dogwood. Use.—(Intl.) same as above, and given in the same manner and doses. Cotula, v. s. Herb of Anthemis Cotula. Mayweed. Use.—(Intl.) in the same cases as chamomile; but from its disagreeable odour often repugnant to a patient; given also in hysteria and other nervous diseases ; usually given in infusion made in the same manner as that of chamomile, and administered in the same doses. It also acts as an epispastic, if bruised and ap- plied to the skin.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21013950_0270.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
