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Source: Pharmacopoeia and materia medica : composed for the use of young physicians, and especially intended to accompany the pathological system of medicine by Bell, John, 1763-1820; Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1815), narrative-offset-136886.
Ingredients or materials as extracted
- ADAPTED TO VARIOUS DISEASES: Or if we' prescribe powders, we order some essential-oiltobe mix- ed with the sugar, and calomel ; or ginger, cinnamon, cayenne pepper, or aromatic powder, to be added to the aloes, or jalap. ■ In the bilious, or in the dropsical, when the sto- mach is irritable and sickly, and when our purpose is not merely to procure the usual increase of intesti- nal secretion, but to irritate the whole abdominal sys- tem ; to exc
Method as extracted
- Macerate according to the source passage: Or if we' prescribe powders, we order some essential-oiltobe mix- ed with the sugar, and calomel ; or ginger, cinnamon, cayenne pepper, or aromatic powder, to be added to the aloes, or jalap. ■ In the bilious, or in the dropsical, when the sto- mach is irritable and sickly, and when our purpose is not merely to procure the usual increase of intesti- nal secretion, but to irritate the whole abdominal sys- tem ; to excite and support the secretion and evacuation of bUe ; to evacuate the water of dropsy, by procuring' profuse watery stools ; to assist the absorption and the flow of urine, by helping the diuretics with drastic purges ; we combine various drastic medicines, and concentrate them in the smallest possible compass ; we give aloes and scammony ; scammony, colocynth, and calomel ; or ela- terium and gamboge, in small pills, following such dose, when fortunately it passes downwards, with a cup of purging infusion, or a glass of tincture.
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- Pharmacopoeia and materia medica : composed for the use of young physicians, and especially intended to accompany the pathological system of medicine — Pharmacopoeia and materia medica : composed for the use of young physicians, and especially intended to accompany the pathological system of medicinePrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at narrative-offset-136886.