Medicines, their uses and mode of administration : including a complete conspectus of the three British pharmacopoeias, an account of all the new remedies, and appendix of formulae / by J. Moore Neligan ; with notes and additions, conforming it to the pharmacopoeia of the United States, and including all that is new or important in recent improvements by David Meredith Reese.
- John Neligan
- Date:
- 1851
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Credit: Medicines, their uses and mode of administration : including a complete conspectus of the three British pharmacopoeias, an account of all the new remedies, and appendix of formulae / by J. Moore Neligan ; with notes and additions, conforming it to the pharmacopoeia of the United States, and including all that is new or important in recent improvements by David Meredith Reese. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![taken an ounce of garlic swallowed whole, or an equal quantity of tin filings and followed these with a drachm of cow'hage or a draught of two ounces of spirits of turpentine, will be slow to confess that their action upon his stomach and bowels has been merely temporary, and is often condemned to find the results disastrously permanent; even when taking these worm medicines has only proved, as it often does to the satisfaction of the physician, that there are no worms in the case, and that anthelmintics are un- called for. The truth is, that no certain diagnosis of worms other than their appearance in the discharges is worthy of confidence, and hence, without this ocular proof, the use of anthelmintics is of equivocal propriety. And even where the symptoms of intestinal irritation lead to the suspicion of worms, to restore the healthy action of the digestive organs, and correct the morbid state which promotes the generation of intestinal worms, these are the true indications. It need scarcely be said, that the medicines arranged under this class are not those best adapted to this purpose, but are correctly pointed out by the author in the last sentence of the preceding paragraph. It is only when the presence of worms is definitely ascertained that any of the specific anthelmintics, as they are here called, are at all adapted to the case, and then only for merely temporary pur- poses, and quickly followed by cathartics, unless they possess this property in common with their specific virtue. The turpentine will be found to be the most successful of any, especially in tape-worm and in ascarides, in which latter case it should be used as an ene- ma, as this species only infest the rectum.] Allium sativum, D. L. E. Garlic. A native of Italy, Sicily, and the South of France, commonly cultivated in our gardens ; belong- ing to the class Hexandria, order Monogynia in the Linnsean ar- rangement, and to the natural family Liliacece. B. C.—Stem a foot and a half to three feet high, surrounded with many linear grass-like leaves, and bearing a head of many whitish flowers emerging from a membranous spatha. P. U. & M. op Prep.—The bulb; it is dug up for use in the month of August, cleaned and dried in the sun, and kept in bunches in a dry place. P. P.—The bulb, as it is termed, consists of several small bulbs, called cloves, grouped together within a common membranous covering; when dry, of a dirty whitish colour, and a withered as- pect ; the cloves, which have each their proper covering, are white and succulent, of a strong, disagreeable, peculiar odour, and an acrid, pungent taste. C. P.—Garlic consists of an acrid volatile oil, fecula, albumen, and a saccharine matter; its medical properties depend on the volatile oil, which is heavier than water, of a yellowish colour, and a very penetrating odour; it contains some sulphur. Th. E.—Garlic, though now seldom employed as an anthelmin- tic in regular practice, is an excellent remedy in ascarides. Roque states that he has met with great success by giving the infusion by](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21143614_0044.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
