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Source: Domestic medicine : or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners. ... To which is now added, a complete index by Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1806), paragraph-4380.
Ingredients or materials as extracted
- of powdered rhubarb, a scruple ; scammony and ca- lomel, of each five grains
- Alston gave it to the amount of two ounces in three days, and says, when thus' administered, that it proved an egregious anthelmintic, tie purged his patients both before they took the powder and afterwards
Method as extracted
- Take of powdered rhubarb, a scruple ; scammony and ca- lomel, of each five grains.
- Rub them together in a mortar for For children the above doses must be lessened according to their age. . , .
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Primary and supporting references
- Domestic medicine : or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners. ... To which is now added, a complete index — Domestic medicine : or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners. ... To which is now added, a complete indexPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-4380.