The pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of London / transl. into English ... by T. Healde. Revised ... with an index shewing the general doses of medicines by John Latham.

  • Royal College of Physicians, London
Date:
1805
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Credit: The pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of London / transl. into English ... by T. Healde. Revised ... with an index shewing the general doses of medicines by John Latham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    - fuppreffions of urine, he has often given it with fuccels 3 —that he has fometimes feen the patient freed from pain almoft in an inftant, a very plentiful difcharge of urine fucceeding;—that, in ulcers of the kidneys and bladder, where the urine was mucous and purulent, and could ícarcely be voided, or not without great uneafinefs, the fymptoms were foon relieved by Pareira, and the ulcer at . length healed by joining it to fome balfam of Copaiva. (Tra. de Mat. Med. tom. i.) Yt was found to be a powerful expectorant in an humoral afthma, and in an icteric cholic, from concreted bile, the pain was foon re- lieved, and all the fymptoms removed ; but, in an icterus when the liver was fwelled, hard, and fchitrhous, it did no good. (Geoffroy, :b:d.) It is given in fubítance from from gr. xij. to Dij. ( Roncé Tratado de la Mat. Med.) Geoffroy gave a decoction of 53g to 51i, in a ]bj, for three dofes, one to be given every half hour and then at longer intervals.—He cautions againft . too large dofes, for fear of heating, or inflaming the kid- neys; but Loct/zbe fays he has known 2j given without any fuch effect. Araney mittel, n. p. 249. Parietaria, Parietaria 0 fictualis, Pellitory of the Wall, I9. the Zero. Pentaphyllum, . Potentilla repians, Cinquefoil, fa TRUM. E the Aocf, | Petroléum, Petroleum, Bitumen Petroleum, or Kock-Oil. L.5.N. Petro-
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