A few papers on foreign pharmacy and other subjects / by Joseph Ince.

  • Ince, Joseph
Date:
1859
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Credit: A few papers on foreign pharmacy and other subjects / by Joseph Ince. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Austrian Pharmacy stands connected in the popular mind with two empirical remedies : the first is the “ Austrian Specific for Cholera.” Many will recollect the marvels related of it in the daily papers, as well as the praises lavished on it by English and Foreign officers; and were we to believe one half we see in print, all fear of the Asiatic scourge would vanish. This is the recipe:— X. “AUSTlilAN SPECIFIC FOH CHOLEKA.” R Acid. Sulphuric, gtt. 96. Acid. Nitric, gtt. 64. Mucilage 3i'j- Aquas Destillatse ad gviij. TR (The original formula was expressed in Decimals.) The second is the nostrum called Warburg’s Tincture, the notoriety of which was revived in one of the longest advertisements of the Times paper. On examination it is supposed to be Compound Solution of Quinine (gr. vj. in 3v.), Aloes being an ingredient ; if so, the statement by Dr. Livingstone, that Quinine is most effective when given in combination with an aperient, receives a curious confirmation. Another and stranger topic has to be discussed; for a writer would be indeed wanting in his duty who should fail to portray the actual position of the Austrian Phar- maceutist, and here I cannot do better than commence with a quotation from the sketch already mentioned, “ Pharmacy in Italy:”— “Making allowance for the national temperament, which tends rather towards music than physic, the circumstances under which