Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets: Or, A Collection of Above 500 Useful Receipts on a Variety of SubjectsYoung, Daniel
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Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets: Or, A Collection of Above 500 Useful Receipts on a Variety of Subjects
Young, Daniel
Formulas, recipes, etc.; Science -- Methodology
Take of rhubarb powder 1 scruple, castile soap half a drachm,
calomel 12 grs., mix and divide into pills; two or three to be taken
at bed time; emetrics, purges, fomentations about the stomach and
liver, and exercise will seldom fail to cure jaundice when it is a
simple disease; and when complicated with dropsy, a scirrous liver,
or other chronic complaints, it is hardly to be cured by any means.
Castile soap has been looked upon as a kind of specific.
437. ASTHMA
Take of powdered squills 2 drms., powdered assafoetida 1 drachm, mix
and divide into 30 pills, two to be taken twice or thrice a day.
Useful in chronic asthma.
438. DR. DEWEES' ANTI-COLIC MIXTURE
Take of carbonate of magnesia 1/2 drm., tincture of assafoetida 60
drops, tincture of opium 20 drops, white sugar 1 drm., and distilled
water 1 oz.; mix and shake; twenty-five drops to be given to an
infant of two to four weeks old, in flatulent colic, diarrhoea, &c.
439. DR. HUN'S ANTI-DIARRHOEAL MIXTURE
Take of oil of cajeput 1 oz., oil of cloves 1 oz., oil of peppermint
1 oz., oil of anise 1 oz., alcohol 4 oz.; mix and shake; dose, from
one to two drachms in hot brandy and water or syrup. This will
afford the most speedy relief in diarrhoea accompanied with pain.
440. HOPE'S MIXTURE
Take of camphor water 4 oz., nitric acid 4 drops, tincture of opium
40 to 60 drops; mix cork, and shake; dose, a tablespoonful every two
hours in diarrhoea and dysentery.
441. ANTI-CHOLERA MIXTURE
Take of tincture of opium 1 drm., liquor ammonia 1/2 drm., tincture
of the oil of peppermint 1/2 drm., ether 25 drops, tincture of
camphor 1 drm., tincture of capsicum, 1 drachm; mix, cork and shake.
In real cholera give this all immediately; if the patient throws it
up, repeat at once. This is an excellent prescription in extreme
cases when the patient is cramped.
442. FOR HYSTERIC FITS
Take of tincture assafoetida 2 drms., aromatic spirits of ammonia
2 drms., camphor water 7 ozs., mix and cork; give two tablespoonsful
every three or four hours.
443. ANTI-ASTHMATIC MIXTURE
Take of mixture of ammoniacum 4 oz., syrup of squill 3 drms.,
antimonial wine 60 drops, wine 1/2 oz., mix and cork. Give two
tablespoonsful often, or when either the cough or shortness of
breath is troublesome.
444. ANTI-RHEUMATIC MIXTURE
Take of ammoniated tinc. of quack 1/2 oz., honey 1/2 oz., camphor
water 6 oz., mix and cork. Take two tablespoonsful three or four
times a day in chronic rheumatism; rub well the affected part with
anti-rheumatic liniment.
445. ANTI-RHEUMATIC LINIMENT
Take of tinc. of opium 2 oz., tinc. of belladonna 2 oz., powdered
camphor 2 oz., oil of turpentine 2 oz., oil of sassafras 2 oz., oil
of origanum 2 oz., and tinc. of capsicum 1 pint; mix all together.
446. DIURETIC MIXTURE
Take of peppermint water 5 oz., wine 6 drachms, sweet spirits of
nitre 1/2 oz.; mix. Two tablespoonsful to be taken three times a-day
in obstruction of urinary passages.
447. SWEATING MIXTURE
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