Pill of Treatment

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Source: The medical guide, for the use of the clergy, heads of families and practitioners in medicine and surgery [electronic resource] : comprising a domestic dispensatory and practical treatise on the symptoms, causes, prevention, and cure of the diseases incident to the human frame, with the latest discoveries in medicine by Reece, Richard, 1775-1831; Sloggatt, S. B., active 1828 former owner; St. Thomas's Hospital. Medical School Library former owner; King's College London (1817), narrative-offset-876403.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Treatment: of gum myrrh, prepared natron, of each one drachm ; salt of steel, one scruple ; mint water, eight ounces. — Mix

Method as extracted

1. Mix according to the source passage: Treatment. — The strength of the s^'stem should be res- tored by exercise, and in the beginning of the disease, by cold bathing*, and the use of stomachics, combined with such medicines as are known to produce a determination to the womb, and remove glandular obstructions, as the following pills. — Take of the ecphractic pill of the Edinburgh pharmacopoeia, two drachms ; oil of caraway seed, six drojrs ; prepared calomel, fire grains. — Mix well together, and divide into thirty pills : two to be taken twice a day. The dose should be increased, diminished, or repeated, so as to produce not less than one, or more than two motions in twenty-four hours. If the smallest dose exceed this operation, they should be only used as an occasional aperient medicine, to obviate costiveness, and three table-spoonfuls of the fol- lowing mixture taken three times a day Take of gum myrrh, prepared natron, of each one drachm ; salt of steel, one scruple ; mint water, eight ounces. — Mix.

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