Remarks on the uses of some of the bazaar medicines and common medical plants of India : with a full index of diseases, indicating their treatment by these and other agents procurable throughout India : to which are added directions for treatment in cases of drowning, snake-bites, &c / by Edward John Waring.
- Date:
- 1897
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Remarks on the uses of some of the bazaar medicines and common medical plants of India : with a full index of diseases, indicating their treatment by these and other agents procurable throughout India : to which are added directions for treatment in cases of drowning, snake-bites, &c / by Edward John Waring. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![yielding to water an abundance of tasteless mucilage, are procurable in most bazaars, and constitute a highly useful demulcent medicine. 304. In Dysentery and Diarrluea they have been long held in well-deserved repute when given, as advised by the late Mr. Twining, of Calcutta. In the Chronic Diarrhoea of Eurojjeans, who have been long resident in India, benefit [he remarks] often follows the use of demulcents followed by mild tonics. For this purpose the Ispaghul seeds seem to answer better than any other remedy. The dose for an adult is 2J drachms mixed with half a drachm of powdered sugar candy. The seeds are exhibited whole, and in their passage through the intestines they absorb as much fluid as makes them swell, and by the time they reach the central or lower portions of the canal, they give out a bland mucilage, and in general they continue to possess the same mucilaginous properties until they have passed through the intes- tines. If the frequency of the dejections be re- strained by anodyne enema, and by using only a small quantity of food, the mucilaginous properties of these seeds are most evident. It is said that a slight degree of astringency and some tonic property may be imparted to the seeds by exposing them to a moderate degree of heat, so that they shall be dried and slightly browned. This remedy sometimes cures the protracted diarrhoea of European and Native children after many other remedies have failed. 305. In many affections of tlte Kidneys and Bladder^ in Gonorrhoea, &c. attended with pain, local irritation](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2197004x_0146.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
