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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    [89] honey and the whole boiled to a proper con- fluence. The valuable qualities of this remedy have never been properly appreciated. When fuf- ficiently diluted, either with water or by mix- ture with digeftive ointments, it proves very effectual in the treatment of fcrofulous or un- healthy ulcers. Formed into a gargle it is often of fervice to fmall ulcers in the mouth, and to the gums when in a fpongy flate. PILULyE CALOMELANOS. R Calomelanos drach. j. Pulveris opiati drach. iij. Syrupi fimplicis q. f. Fiant pilulae lx. Thefe are the calomel pills of Guy’s Hofpi- tal. The proportion of opium in the pulvis opi- atus is about feven grains to a dram. PILULyE CALOMELANOS COMPO- SITE. Rc Calomelanos drach. j. Antimonii tartarizati gran. xv. Opii purificati drach. fs. Syriipi fimplicis q. f. Fiant pilulae lx. Thefe are employed at St. Thomas’s Hof- pital, in the dofe of one twice a day, in dif- eafes of the joints. They alfo prove of fejrvice