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Source: Medical botany [electronic resource] : containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh: together with most of the principal medicinal plants not included in those pharmacopoeias. Accompanied with a circumstantial detail of their medicinal effects, and of the diseases in which they have been most successfully by Woodville, William, 1752-1805; Gosse, Irene, former owner; St. Thomas's Hospital. Medical School Library former owner; King's College London (1810), narrative-offset-225969.
Ingredients or materials as extracted
- SCILLA MARITIMA: 749 have not however confined themselves to these:® when this root was intended as a diuretic., it has most commonly been used in powder, as being in this state less disposed to nauseate the sto- mach ; and to the powder it has been the practice to add neutral salts, as nitre, or crystals of tartar, especially if the patient com- plained of much thirst; others recommend calomel; and with a view to render the Squills
Method as extracted
- Grind according to the source passage: 749 have not however confined themselves to these:® when this root was intended as a diuretic., it has most commonly been used in powder, as being in this state less disposed to nauseate the sto- mach ; and to the powder it has been the practice to add neutral salts, as nitre, or crystals of tartar, especially if the patient com- plained of much thirst; others recommend calomel; and with a view to render the Squills less offensive to the stomach, it has been usual to conjoin an aromatic. The dose of dried Squill is from two to four or six grains, once a day, or half this qnantity twice a day; afterwards to be regulated according to its effects.
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Primary and supporting references
- Medical botany [electronic resource] : containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh: together with most of the principal medicinal plants not included in those pharmacopoeias. Accompanied with a circumstantial detail of their medicinal effects, and of the diseases in which they have been most successfully — Medical botany [electronic resource] : containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians oPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at narrative-offset-225969.