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.
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![CHAPTER IV. Syrup of Ipecacuanha. 245. Recipe. Alcoholic extract of Ipecacuanha, . - 15 grammes. White sugar, . 500 Pure water, . , . . . .500 246. Preparation.—Alcoholic extract of ipecacuanha is obtained by leaving exposed to the Sun's rays 125 grammes of ipecacuanha roots in 500 grammes of alcohol at 21 ° cartier and filtering and distilling the alcohol. Dissolve the extract obtained in 125 grammes of water and filter; dissolve in another vase the 500 grammes of sugar in 500 grammes of water, boil this syrup and when boiling throw in the solution of ipecacuanha and keep boiling until the whole takes the substance of syrup. A spoonful is given to children whenever it becomes necessary to cause a vomiting. We only administer it in cases of advanced croup. N. B. The above two syrups requiring a long time to prepare, it would be better to have them made by a conscientious druggist. There are druggists who give syrup of sugar for syrup of gum. Sugar syrup is always very limpid ; our gum syrup always retains a milky appearance. CHAPTER XXI. Camphorated vinegar and salt water. 247. Recipe: Camphor powder,[l26] .... 30 grammes. Rectified vinegar, .... 1 litre. 248. Preparation.—Place in a decanter the camphor powder and keep in motion until the camphor is dissolved in vinegar, either spontaneously or with the aid of heat. 249. This vinegar is employed: 1st. to purify the air of apart- ments, by throwing a few drops on the floor or on a red hot shovel. 2nd. To breathe in cases of swooning. 3rd. In gargles against scorbutic affections by throwing five or six drops in a glass of water. 4th. In lotions, mixed with a large quantity of water, against threatning purulent infection, decomposition of the blood, carbun- cle, plague or contagious diseases and against the fearful bites of corpse worms. General rule—When the blood is congealed by the absorbtion of an acid employ lotions of anodyne water (169); when it becomes liquid by the absorbtion of substances having for their base ammoniac employ lotions of camphorated vinegar : in the first case against fever; in the second against the progressive weakness of the pulse 5 °. Salt water gargles are employed for sore throat, catarrhs, strangulation of neck glands, asthma, &c.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21149318_0054.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
