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.Waring, Edward John
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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.
Waring, Edward John
Botany, Medical -- India; Materia medica, Vegetable -- India; Medicinal plants -- India; Traditional medicine -- India
114. _Obstinate Indolent Ulcers_ will often yield, when other measures
have failed, to the persevering application of solutions of the
Sulphate, of graduated strengths, from 2 grains to 10 grains in the
ounce of water. At the commencement the weakest solution is applied
morning and evening, water dressing (394) being applied in the
intervals. When the first solution ceases to occasion a feeling of heat
in the ulcerated surface, the strength should be gradually increased by
single grains till the 10-grain solution is borne, by which time the
ulcer is generally almost healed. When the edges of the ulcer are hard
and unyielding, they may be touched every second or third day with the
Sulphate in substance; and it may also be thus used to check _Exuberant
Granulations_.
115. _In Ringworm and Scalled head_ the following ointment has been
found useful: Sulphate of Copper in powder, 20 grains; powdered Galls, 1
drachm; Ceromel, 1 ounce. Mix them thoroughly, and rub well into the
diseased spot. _In Prickly Heat_, a lotion of the Sulphate of Copper (10
grains to one ounce of water, or Rose water) often affords more relief
than any other application.
116. _Excessive Bleeding from Leechbites_ may often be speedily arrested
by the application of a little powdered Sulphate of Copper. _In Bleeding
from the Nose_, a solution of 4 grains of the Sulphate in one ounce of
water introduced into the nostril, is sometimes effectual when Alum
fails.
117. _In Poisoning by Opium_, _Datura_, _Nux Vomica_, _Cocculus
Indicus_, _Bish_ (_Aconite_), _Arsenic_, _&c._, where the poison has
been swallowed, an emetic should at once be given to evacuate the
contents of the stomach. For this purpose, Sulphate of Copper may be
advantageously employed—5 grains in a pint of tepid water, taken at a
draught. If this does not operate in half an hour it may be repeated;
and a third dose, even, may be given if necessary, but this quantity
should not be exceeded; as, unless it is vomited up, it remains in the
stomach, and in large quantities is itself capable of acting as a
poison. Its operation should be promoted by copious draughts of warm
water. Its use as an emetic should be _limited to cases of poisoning
when it is of the greatest importance to empty the stomach as rapidly as
possible_. In other cases it _is not a safe or manageable emetic_. White
of egg is the best remedy if the Sulphate causes any unpleasant effects.
118. +Croton Seeds.+ The seeds of Croton Tiglium, _Linn._
Jépál, Jamál-gótá (_Hind._), Jamál-guttah (_Duk._), Jépál, Jamál-gotá
(_Beng._, _Punj._), Nérválam kottai (_Tam._), Népála-vittulu (_Tel._),
Nirválam (_Mal._) Jápálada-bíjá (_Can._), Népálácha-bi (_Mah._),
Jamlá-gota (_Guz._), Jápála, Jaipála (_Cing._), Kanakho-si, Sa-díva,
Ta-díva (_Burm._), Buah doomkian (_Malay_).
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