A practical treatise on the therapeutic uses of terebinthine medicines : with observations on tubercular consumption, gout, mineral waters, etc. / by Thomas Smith.

Date:
1850
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Credit: A practical treatise on the therapeutic uses of terebinthine medicines : with observations on tubercular consumption, gout, mineral waters, etc. / by Thomas Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    c CONTENTS. PREFACE . . ' . . . vii PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS . . , .1 HISTORY OF TURPENTINE . . . .2 PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES, AND MODE OF PREPARATION . 4 PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS . . . .7 THERAPEUTICAL EFFECTS . . , .9 TURPENTINE A SAFE COUNTER-IRRITANT . . .11 TURPENTINE AS A VERMIFUGE . . ' . .12 TURPENTINE AS A PURGATIVE . . - .12 TURPENTINE AS AN ASTRINGENT . . . .15 THE EXTERNAL USE OF TURPENTINE . . .16 MALADIES FOR WHICH TURPENTINE HAS BEEN RECOMMENDED . 18 ILLUSTRATIVE CASES . . . . .19 H^MATEMESIS . . . . .19 EPIST/VXIS . . . . , .27 CAPILLARY HEMORRHAGE . . . .31 PURPURA HEMORRHAGICA . . . .33 HEMOPTYSIS . . , . . .35 PARASITIC WORMS . . . . .43 GRUBS IN THE URETHRA . . . .47 RHEUMATISM AND LUMBAGO . . . .48 GOUT . . . . . .51 BILIARY CALCULI . . . . ,54