The family adviser, or, A plain and modern practice of physic : calculated for the use of families that have not the advantages of a physician and accommodated to the diseases of America / by Henry Wilkens, M.D.

  • Wilkins, Henry, 1767-1847.
Date:
1814
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    But when nothing forbids a puke but the person's inclination, lie may take just be- fore the fit oi* after it is over some time, the following powder: twenty grains of rhu- barb, and five of calomel in a little syrup, and when the fever comes on, take the » Warm drink as above. These medicines will prepare for the ex- hibition of bark, which should be given immediately after the sweat goes oft*. Any of the preparations may be given, but the powder is the best; it may be given in mint water, milk or wine; one tea-spoonful ev- ery hour till the ague comes on again ; then it should be laid aside till this is over, when it is to be given again; the patient should not cease under an ounce and a half, or two ounces. If, when this has been ta- ken the ague does not cease, another puke should be used as before. In all eases the bowels should be kept open by Anderson's pills, or rhubarb. Sometimes twenty drops of laudanum given before the ague, wilt put it off, and sometimes giving it just before the patient is expected to sweat, will prepare for the bark; sometimes a quantity of snake-root tea at the same time will prove effectual; and in many cases bitters, of horehound, dogwood, rue, &c, will do as well as bark. The fever and ague, after it has eontinu- br some time, is apt to associate cus- C