The new 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 first added, memoirs of the life of Dr. Buchan : and important extracts from other works, particularly his Advice to mothers, ... / by William Buchan.

Date:
1813
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Credit: The new 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 first added, memoirs of the life of Dr. Buchan : and important extracts from other works, particularly his Advice to mothers, ... / by William Buchan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / 4° APPENDIX. 1 his pill has been found a powerful, vet safe, altera- tive, in obstinate cutaneous disorders ; and has com- pleted a cure after salivation had failed. In venereal eases, it has likewise produced excellent effects. Two or three pills of an ordinary size may be taken night and morning, the patient keeping moderately warm, and drinking after each dose a draught of decoction of the woods, or of sarsaparilla. Purging Pills.—Take of succotrine aloes, and Cas- tile soap, each two drams; of simple syrup, a suffi- cient quantity to make them into pills. Four or ff ve of these pills will generally prove a suf- ficient purge. For keeping the body gently open, one may be taken night and morning. They are reckoned both deobstruent and stomachic, and will be found to answer all the purposes of Dr. Anderson’s pills, the principal ingredient of which is aloes. Where aloetic purges are improper, the following pills may be used : Take extract of jalap, and vitriolated tartar, of each two drams ; syrup of ginger, as much as will make them of a proper consistence for pills. These pills may be taken in the same quantity as the above. Pills for the Jaundice.—Take of Castile soap, suc- cotrines aloes, and rhubarb, of each one dram. Make them into pills, with a sufficient quantity of syrup mucilage. These pills, as their title expresses, are chiefly in- tended for the jaundice, which, with the assistance of proper diet, they will often cure. Five or six of them may be taken twice a-day, more or less, as may be necesssary to keep the body open. It will be proper, however, during the use, to interpose now and then a vomit of ipecacuanha, or tartar emetic. Stomachic Pills.—Take extract of gentian, two drams; powdered rhubarb, and vitriolated tartar, of each one dram ; oil of mint, thirty drops; simple sy- rup, a sufficient quantity.