Pharmacopoeia chirurgica, or, Formulae for the use of surgeons : including, among a variety of remedies adopted in the private practice of the most eminent of the profession, all the principal formulae of the different hospitals.

  • Houlston, William, 1755-1815
Date:
1794
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    [92 ]. {till not have been guarded from the ill effcfts of expofure to the light. Or laftly, the whole medicine may have fuffered from the mere effefts of long keeping. 1 rom any of ihefe caules, it is evident, the powers of cicuta may have fuf- fered; and it happens, no doubt, very frequent- ly, that the failure of it ought, in faft, to be at- tributed to one or other of them. The mode of admiraftering Hemlock, is by beginning with a very fmall dole, and augmen- ting it gradually, till the patient begins to ex- perience fome inconvenient effefts in the head and ftomach; at which period it is, that the good effefts, if any can be produced, will be manifeft. From one pill to twenty, may there- fore be taken in twenty-four hours. PILULrE CUPRI VITRIOLATI. fk Cupri vitriolati gran. xv. Olibani. Extrafti cinchonas ling, draclr. ij, Syrupi fimplicis q. f. Fiant pilulas lx. Thefe, in the dofe of from one to four in a day, are calculated to remove gleets, and are fometimes ufeful in the latter ftage of gonor- rhoea. PILULE HYDRARGYRI. In employing quickfilver in venereal cafes,