A companion to the medicine chest : with plain rules for taking the medicines in the cure of diseases / By Thomas Hollis. To which are added, rules for restoring suspended animation, from drowning.

  • Hollis, Thomas.
Date:
1834
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A companion to the medicine chest : with plain rules for taking the medicines in the cure of diseases / By Thomas Hollis. To which are added, rules for restoring suspended animation, from drowning. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    well as a pleasant drink when dissolved in water, with the ad¬ dition of a little sugar or molasses, in warm weather and in hot fevers. BASILICON, Is a good Ointment either for fresh wounds after the first dressing is removed, or for old sores, biles, or hlcers; it is drawing and healing. TURNER’S CERATE, Isa cooling Ointment, excellent for dressing wounds oc¬ casioned by burns and scalds, or any sores that require a cool¬ ing and healing application. TURLINGTON’S BALSAM OF LIFE, Is very good for cuts and wounds; bind up the wound with a rag, and pour upon it some of the Balsam once or twice a day, observing not to remove the dressing until it will come off without force, unless the parts should swell and become painful, then remove the dressing and apply a poultice or basilicon salve. For a weak stomach, cough, internal pains, &e. take fifteen drops on sugar two or three times a day. BALSAM COPAIVA. This i3 a very useful medicine, and is used to increase the discharge of urine. It strengthens the nervous system, tends to loosen the bowels, and is frequently of advantage in that very troublesome complaint the Piles. The dose is from twenty to thirty drops taken on sugar, two or three times a day. Very dangerous coughs have been cured by the use of this Balsam alone. From the effect which it produces upon the urinary passages, it seldom fails of curing many diseases of that part, particularly the gleet. BALSAM FIR, Is considered one of the best applications for cuts and wounds, and is highly recommended for inward weakness and pains occasioned by strains, sudden falls, &c. Dose about fifteen drops taken on sugar two or three times a day. LAUDANUM, Will ease pain and procure rest. Dose thirty drops at bed time, in water ; in violent cholics and cramp in the stom¬ ach, thirty drops joined with as much Essence of Pepper¬ mint, and taken in any warm liquid, will afford almost imme¬ diate relief.