Observations on the action of the broom-seed in dropsical affections / by Richard Pearson.

  • Pearson, Richard, 1765-1836.
Date:
1835
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Observations on the action of the broom-seed in dropsical affections / by Richard Pearson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Note C.—In all cases the tincture is decidedly preferable to the seeds in substance : but where the tincture cannot be had, and the practitioner is compelled to use the seeds in substance they should not be given in treacle, as was done in our first trials; or after a time it was found that the treacle proved burdensome to the stomach, and caused the seeds to pass off too freely by stoo Hence, where the tincture cannot be had, the seeds should be a - ministered, not in honey or treacle, but in some light aromatic ve- hicle, such as cold ginger-tea, or cold carraway-seed tea, or mint water. FINIS. BARLOW, PRINTER, BENNETX’s-HILL, BIRMINGHAM.