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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![has often excited surprise, when the small quantity of purgative salts contained in the large quantity of the waters drank is disclo- sed by analysis. Similar effects, however, can be produced at any time by very large dilutions with water, acidulated with a similar small proportion of Epsom salts. A single teaspoonful of Epsom, dissolved in a quart of common water, if a few drops of either of the mineral acids be added, and the whole quart speedily drank, will produce as free purging as would follow 2 oz. of the same salts, if dissolved in a small quantity of water. It is, therefore, easy to explain the remarkable effect of mineral waters thus: Six or more tumblers of the water of Congress Spring, for example, are quick- ly drank, containing, possibly, not more than a drachm of purging salts, combined with a small portion of mineral acids and non-pur- ging saline ingredients. The stomach is mechanically distended, as also the duodenum, by the draught of fluid, and the biliary se- cretion is often provoked immediately by the agitation and irrita- tion of its ducts.' Hence the peristaltic motion begins, and progress- es rapidly by the distension of so large a quantity of fluid, the small dose of salts being merely auxiliary, and hastening the process. Accordingly, we find that in ordinary cases the discharges are not only bilious, but fluid to an extent corresponding with the number of glasses drank. And it will be observed, also, that in those inva- lids who complain at the Springs that whatever quantity of the water they drink it fails to purge them, the reason is, that the function of the liver is suspended, and the bile is absent. Nor in such persons do the waters succeed as a cathartic, until calomel, blue pill, or some similar medicine is premised, overcoming the hepatic obstruction, after which the waters have their appropriate effect. These suggestions are introduced here as the result of much re- flection and diligent observation for many years, and will admit of more amplification than in this place would be allowable. They will receive confirmation by comparing them with the^therapeu- tical effects of the remedies named under the class of Cathartics bv the author.] Aloe, L. Aloe Socotrina, D. E. Aloes ; Socotrine aloes ; from (inspissated juice of the leaves of, L.) Alo'i spicata, D. L. : of an undetermined species of Aloe, E. Aloe hefatica, D. Aloe Barbadensis, E. Aloe Indica, E. Hepatic aloes; Barbadoes alors ; Indian aloes. From Aloi: vulga- ris, D. Extract, or inspissated juice of one or more undetermined species of aloi, E.—The Edinburgh College correctly states, that aloes is obtained from various species of the genus Aloe; they are inhabitants of the East and West Indies, Socotora, Barbary, and the Cape of Good Hope ; and belong to the natural family Lili acece, and to the Linnajan class and order Hexandria Monogynia. B. C.—The species of the genus Aloe from which the drug is obtained are gen erally characterized by having woody steins, with largej fleshy, amplexicaul loaves, glaucous, flat above and convex below, having marginal spines or serratures ; flow ers numerous, in spikes or racemes, tubular, coloured; stamens exsarted](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21143614_0089.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
