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Historical use wording: dropsy
Source: Gray's supplement to the pharmacopoeia : being a concise but comprehensive dispensatory and manual of facts and formulae, for the chemist and druggist and medical practitioner by Gray, Samuel Frederick, 1766-1828; Redwood, Theophilus, 1806 - 1892; Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1848), materia-264-1.
Ingredients or materials as extracted
- Tuberous vetch: Cowhage, Dolichi pubes, occasions violent itching, which is allayed by a solution of green vitriol or oil; vermifuge by scraping the hair off a pod and taking it with treacle or syrup for a morning dose, and giving a brisk purge after two or three doses of the cowhage; root in decoction diuretic, and very useful in dropsy. (G.)
Method as extracted
- Boil according to the source passage: Cowhage, Dolichi pubes, occasions violent itching, which is allayed by a solution of green vitriol or oil; vermifuge by scraping the hair off a pod and taking it with treacle or syrup for a morning dose, and giving a brisk purge after two or three doses of the cowhage; root in decoction diuretic, and very useful in dropsy. (G.)
Live editorial status
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- Automated review flags: serious disease claim.
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Primary and supporting references
- Gray's supplement to the pharmacopoeia : being a concise but comprehensive dispensatory and manual of facts and formulae, for the chemist and druggist and medical practitioner — Gray's supplement to the pharmacopoeia : being a concise but comprehensive dispensatory and manual of facts and formulae, for the chemist and druggist and medical practitionerPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at materia-264-1.