The American practice of medicine / by Dr. Law.

  • Law, Dr.
Date:
[between 1880 and 1889?]
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Credit: The American practice of medicine / by Dr. Law. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    camphor, carraway, cayenne, cloves, cinnamon, elecampane, fennel seed, ginger, horseradish, orange peel, lavender, rosemary, pennyroyal, peppermint, sassafras, prickly ash, spearmint, summer savory. TONICS Are those articles which increase the tone of the animal fibre, by which strength is given to the system, and the appetite and digestion improved. They are, to a certain extent, .stimulants, but the excitement is more slowly produced, and is permanent. No class of medicines require more care in their administration than these: they should never be given where there is a tendency to inflammation of the digestive and other organs, and alwuvs in connection with stimulants, as their power as tonics is nreatly increased. The principal tonics are centuary, balmony, barberry bark, bayberry, black alder, poplar, bogbean, gentian columba boneset, camomile, comfrey, elecampane, golden seal bitter root orange peel, oxgall, prince's pine, Virginia snake root, wormwood! Wild cherry bark, willow bark. &c, &c. The Laxative Bitters Powder. No. 8 and the Spiced Bitters No 3 aiv excellent tonics; but the Select Compound No. 4 is the best .and the one we can recommend to all: to restore the weak land debilitated, it is unequalled in its actions. SELECT COMPOUNDS.* SELECT COMPOUND No. 1. Lobelia .. ' .. ,. i oz. Pleurisy .. .. .. J oz. Boneset .. .. .. J oz. Elecampane .. .. .. a oz. Liquorice .. .. .. J oz. Aniseed .. .. .. i oz, Horehuund .. .. .. i oz. Blood Root .. .. .. i oz. Cayenne .. ., half-tenspoonful. All in fine powder; mix, and infuse for ten days in me pint of * The reader will observe that the number d Recipes in this Work :xcietis one hundred; but we Jo not wish him to think that it is lecessary to make use of them all in jrdm to sucessfully S.ire the irrtmary forms of disease. On the last two pages (which see; we have [j*cn a list of those Compounds, Pills Ac, which we use in ju* own intensive practice, and find them sufficient to cu s ftU the diseases um-'J un ler their respective heads.