Medicine chests of all kinds : with directions suitable to their contents, are carefully put up by Thomas Weld, North Side of the Market, Boston ; composed of medicines of the best quality, and sold at a low price.

  • Weld, Thomas, active 1806.
Date:
1806
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Credit: Medicine chests of all kinds : with directions suitable to their contents, are carefully put up by Thomas Weld, North Side of the Market, Boston ; composed of medicines of the best quality, and sold at a low price. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    Balsam—For cuts and small wounds—wet a piece of lint with it, and bind it on—-keep it upon the part un- til it will come off without force—^it is also a good medicine taken inwardly, for coughs, consumptions, and internal pains—half a teaspoonful on sugar, or in water may be taken three or foiir times in a day. Mercurial Solution—See. Venereal Disease. Salts—Are cooling physic, and an useful common purge for most cases in which purges are necessary.— Lancet for bleeding—When you wish to bleed a person—strip the arm in a fair light, tie a garter or narrow bandage tight above the elbow—pass the lancet carefully into the largest vein which rises on the inside of the elbow joint, taking care not to go very deep— when you have drawn three or four jills of blood, un- tie the bandage, and lay a piece of linen doubled three or four times, and dipp'd in cold water, over the in- cision, and tie the bandage over it tight enough to prevent the blood flowing, but not so tight as to excite pain. Bleeding is proper after a bad fall, violent blows, especially on the head and breast, in fevers which are attended with throbbing pains in the head, or side, great thirst and heat, and spitting of blood—if one bleeding does not procure relief, you may repeat it in twelve hours. Venereal Disease—-Put a table spoonful of the mer- curial solution into a pint of rum or other spirit, and give one large spoonful of the mixture every night and morning—if the mouth becomes sore after using this medicine for some time, omit it, and give a dose of Salts every three or four days, till the soreness has gone off; and then give the mixture again as abovc directed. If sores break out upon the yard, put 3 a 2