Directions for combining and using A. Stewart's compound vegetable and other pills : accompanied with correct tables, suitable for nearly all of the most commom complaints, whether simple or compound : taken from every day's observations and practice, of the numerous patients which I have had the honor to prescribe for, with unbounded success, both in Surgical and Medical cases.

  • Stewart, Adam, 1775 or 1776-1842.
Date:
1837
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Credit: Directions for combining and using A. Stewart's compound vegetable and other pills : accompanied with correct tables, suitable for nearly all of the most commom complaints, whether simple or compound : taken from every day's observations and practice, of the numerous patients which I have had the honor to prescribe for, with unbounded success, both in Surgical and Medical cases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dropsical Complaints, with Swelling of Otc Limbs. When the patient is young and vigorous, there is very little trouble in per- forming a cure ; but in old age, and when it has been long seated, it is very difficult to remove, and sometimes impossible; but. gener- ally I have been very successful. My practice with patients of middle age, and of costive habits, (which is most always the case,) is, to begin with twenty of No. 1, the first night, and reduce one pill every night, for ten or twelve days; then change to No. 2— thus proceed as the patient may think it proper. To females, who are not hard to operate upon, I recommend No. 3, instead of No. 1. The patient must avoid all slops, and drink of any kind, as much as possible Price $1 per Box. Should the swelling of the limbs not give way to this medicine, while taking it, then recourse must be had to my Cupping and Scarificator, to draw away the superfluous matter there stagnated. N. B. By this practice, I have been able to reduce very large swellings, where the patients were confined to the chair, and could not be moved without assistance ; and, in the course of a few weeks, they have been able to attend to their business. For proof of this, many can be referred to, who have been relieved. 7. Syphilis or Anti-Venereal, Chemical Pills. All my Pills, with the exception of these, are compounded from the vegetable kingdom alone; but as there are a great many com- plicated diseases, frequently accompanying Rheumatism, Scrofula, Gout, Pains in the Head and Joints, which are generally worse when the patient is in bed, such of these as do not give way to some of the foregoing Vegetable Pills, (as there may be some re- mains of Viris, in its confirmed state, lurking in the system, or, in other words, mingled with the juices of (he body, whether from a hereditary taint, or by some imprudences in youth, and, as it is well known, or ought to be known, that there is but one certain cure for this complaint, whatever pretenders and quacks may tell you—thousands are annually carried off by this direful disease ;) to such patients, I recommend beginning with two pills, night and morning, till their effects are perceived, which will be in the course of a few weeks. These Pills combine the Alterative, and what is commonly known as the Lisbon Diet Drink. See Directions. Price $1,50 per Box. JVo. 7, A. Pills. The dose is—begin with four at night and three in the morning, until the gums are slightly affected. This must be kept up by regulating the number of pills, until the disease is sub- dued ; or, as my grandfather, Dr. Buchan, of Edinburgh, used to tell his patients, to run a quarantine of forty days, to insure them against a relapse. Price $1 per Box* N. B. If a mild case, No. 7, A, will be sufficient; if a more severe case, No. 7 must be used. These Pills must be duly per- sisted in, to produce the effect, viz. soreness of the gums. While * Should the weather be warm, 4 at night would be sufficient.