Ointment of Therapeutics

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Source: Dr Pereira's elements of materia medica and therapeutics : abridged and adapted for the use of medical and pharmaceutical practitioners and students, and comprising all the medicines of the British pharmacopoeia, with such others as are frequently ordered in prescriptions or required by the physicians by Redwood Theophilus, 1806 -, 1892; Bentley Robert; Pereira Jonathan, 1804-1853; Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1872), narrative-offset-732141.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Therapeutics: It has been particu arly used and recommended to relieve gastrodynia and cramp of the stomach, to allay sickness and vomiting, and as a remedy for pyrosis or waterbrasli. In the latter disease I give it in the form of a powder, in doses of twenty grains thrice daily, in conjunction with hydrocyanic acid mixture, and the patient rarely fails to obtain Dr '’Thee Tf t T ^ US6' ^ ^ alS° US6d iQ UlCe" °f the St0macl1- Di

Method as extracted

1. Mix according to the source passage: It has been particu arly used and recommended to relieve gastrodynia and cramp of the stomach, to allay sickness and vomiting, and as a remedy for pyrosis or waterbrasli. In the latter disease I give it in the form of a powder, in doses of twenty grains thrice daily, in conjunction with hydrocyanic acid mixture, and the patient rarely fails to obtain Dr '’Thee Tf t T ^ US6' ^ ^ alS° US6d iQ UlCe" °f the St0macl1- Di Theophilus Thompson recommends it in doses of five grains combined with gum arabic and magnesia, in the diarrhoea accom-’ panying phthisis ; and he thinks that, both in efficacy and safety it surpasses our most approved remedies for that complaint I have nsed it, with advantage, in the form of ointment, ^Hed to "he zz Z'i- c::r **■ ^ Administration,.

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