Annual diary of health, or, Family physician & druggist : containing the necessary theoretical and practical manner of preparing medicines and preserving or curing yourself of disease, at small cost and with promptitude, of all curable evils, and of giving relief to those who labor under chronic or incurable diseases / by F.V. Raspail ; translated from the Paris edition of 1846 by A. Fortier.
- François-Vincent Raspail
- Date:
- 1846
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Annual diary of health, or, Family physician & druggist : containing the necessary theoretical and practical manner of preparing medicines and preserving or curing yourself of disease, at small cost and with promptitude, of all curable evils, and of giving relief to those who labor under chronic or incurable diseases / by F.V. Raspail ; translated from the Paris edition of 1846 by A. Fortier. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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![CHAPTER XVin. Endive syrup. 241. Simplified recipe: Rhubarb root, 20 grammes. Dried wild endive, leafs and roots together, 55 Iceland moss, 500 Water, 250 242. Preparation.—Boil the endive and Iceland moss in 500 gram- mes of water until reduced to one half. When you withdraw from the fire throw in the liquid rhubarb roots cut in small pieces; let it infuse until the next morning. Pass it through a thick linen and them add the 500 grammes of sugar dissolved fn a little warm water. The syrup may be used whenever sugar is incorporated with the other ingredients. Use.—Endive syrup is administered to children at the breast and in infancy and to those who refuse taking aloes [101]. A coffee apoonfull is to be given in the morning, at noon and at night. This syrup is purgative and vermifuge. CHAPTER XIX. Camphorated syrup of gum. 243. It is difficult to administer solid camphor to children. There are also persons whose stomachs are so deprived of mucous by vio- lent treatments or accidents of a corrosive nature that the touch of a powder suffices to create pain and induce a vomiting. Camphorated syrup of gum is employed now and then in the two above cases. Recipe : Water 250 grammes. Arab gum 250 Sugar, 500 Camphorated alcohol at 40 ° wheighing 28° B[129], 50 244. Preparation.—Dissolve on the fire the sugar in 500 gram- mes of water; throw in the 50 grammes of camphorated alcohol and keep in motion until the two substances are incorporated. Dissolve the gum either in cold water, which requires a longer time, or in a boiling water bath ; keep in motion and always maintain a double quantity'of water ; filter and let it settle so as to deposit the impure bodies; roplace on the fire in a boiling, water bath until it is reduced to one third. When this is done mix together the camphorated sugar and gum and agitate often, more especially before you use it. N. B. This syrup is seldom limpid, but no attention is to be paid !o this fact. It contains l-60th part of camphor; about 25 centigram- mes of camphor to every 60 spoonfuls of syrup.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21149318_0053.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
