THE
MEDICAL POCKET-BOOK.
Containing a short but plain Account of the
SYMPTOMS, CAUSES, and METHODS of CURE,
OF THE
DISEASES INCIDENT TO THE HUMAN BODY:
Including such as require
SURGICAL TREATMENT:
Together with the
VIRTUES AND DOSES
OF 
MEDICINAL COMPOSITIONS AND SIMPLES.
EXTRACTED FROM THE BEST AUTHORS,
AND DIGESTED INTO ALPHABETICAL ORDER.
By Sir JOHN ELLIOT, M. D.
. THE THIRD AMERICAN EDITION,
Copied from the latest English Edition; with Additions, Improve-
ments, and Corrections.
Printed at BOSTON, by MANNING & LORING,
For THOMAS & ANDREWS,
Faust's Statue, No. 45, Newbury-Street.
1795.

[IN this third American Edition, several im-
provements are made ; such as, using the letters
over each page, in the manner of a Dictionary, and
inserting the additions and corrections (necessary
to make the work agree with the last edition of the
London Pharmacopœia) in their proper places, instead
of putting them at the close of the work, &c.] 

TO 
Sir JOHN PRINGLE, Bart.
PHYSICIAN TO THEIR
MAJESTIES;
FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGES OF
PHYSICIANS AT LONDON AND
EDINBURGH ;
AND OF THE
ROYAL SOCIETIES OF LONDON
AND PARIS, &c. &c.
THIS WORK
IS MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,
BY HIS FAITHFUL
AND DEVOTED
HUMBLE SERVANT,
The AUTHOR.
Great Marlborough-Street,}
Aug. 12, 1781.}



PREFACE.
THE advantages of a publication of this kind
to the practitioner in medicine, are too obvious
to need enumeration ; I shall, therefore, only
premise a few necessary observations relative to
the work itself.
I. The doses of medicines, &c. are set down
as for adults : and therefore the prescriber will
easily vary them for other ages. For example,
children of two years old may, in general, take
about a third part of the doses for adults, or a
little more ; and so in proportion for other ages,
the constitution being also considered.
II. Where it could conveniently be done,
I have mentioned the intervals at which the
medicines are to be repeated : but these may be
varied at the prescriber's discretion. For brevi-
ty's sake I have, in many places, used the word
frequenter; by which 1 would have it under-
stood, that every three, four, six, eight, &c.
A 2 hours 

vi PREFACE.
hours are meant, according to the exigency of
the case.
III. When any particular indication is to be
obferved, the classes (as cathartics, diuretics, as-
tringents, &c.) may be referred to ; under which
heads as many of the compositions and simples
as were judged necessary are arranged.
IV. The limits assigned to the work would
not admit of formulæ; nor do I think them by
any means necessary. The doses of all the ar-
ticles usually administered are set down ; and I
will not suppose that there is any medical prac-
titioner who cannot give directions for making
them into draughts, boluses, or other forms that
may be required. The vehicles should be either
perfectly innocent, (as aq. pura, syr. simp. &c.)
or of similar virtues with the medicines to be
given. And if two articles of the same virtues
(cathartics, for example) be employed, it scarcely
need be mentioned, that the dose of each must
be proportionably less. It may be added, that
ingredients 

PREFACE.
Vll
ingredients of a volatile nature should be given
in a liquid form, lest their virtues exhale ; and
very nauseous ones should, if convenient, be given
in the form of pills or boluses.
V. In the alphabet I have, for the most part,
made use of English names ; or, at least, have
usually referred from those where technical ones
are employed.
This work was drawn up originally for my
own use, and in the course of practice I have
found it very convenient to refer to occasionally.
It was the opinion of those medical gentlemen
who saw the M. S. that it would be equally use-
ful to others, and this was my motive for making
it public. If it assist the practitioner's memory
in matters already known (at least till he has
leisure to consult larger works, where necessary)
my design is answered.
J. E.
ADVERTISEMENT 

ADVERTISEMENT
TO THE
THIRD EDITION.
IN the present edition the old names of medicines
have been exchanged for those of the New Phar-
macopœia of the London college ; those now first ad-
mitted into that Pharmacopœia inserted, with the ad-
dition of a few not deemed by the college suffciently
established for that purpose, though adopted into the
private practice of some eminent physicians, and of
too much importance for a knowledge of them to be
thought superfluous to any practitioner ; those omit-
ted by the college are expunged : the doses have been
carefully corrected from the best authorities ; in the
treatment, of diseases such alterations have been made
as later experience has approved ; and a few have
been added to the catalogue which were not noticed
in the former editions.
THE

THE
MEDICAL POCKET-BOOK.
ABORTION.
SYMPTOMS. Pain in the back, loins, and
lower part of the belly ; shiverings; a flux of
blood from the womb ; nausea, anxiety, pal-
pitation of the heart, syncope, an opening and
moisture of the os tincæ. Most commonly
happens between the second and fourth months
of pregnancy, though it may occur later. It
may be occasioned by frights, falls, strong
emetics or cathartics, or by any violent com-
motion of body or mind.
Treatment. If the pulse be strong, bleed, give
nitre, and pursue the antiphlogistic regimen :
if the patient be weak, the bark and chalybe-
ates. In general the medicines should be of
the tonic and sedative kinds. The body
should be kept open with clysters, or other-
wise ; the diet light broths, and the like ; and
the patient should be kept very cool, still, and
quiet in bed. To stop the hæmorrhage, styp-
tics may be applied to the os uteri, and a
cloth

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ABS ACI
cloth dipped in vinegar to the os externum,
and pubes. Some recommend acetated ce-
russe internally in large doses.
If, nevertheless, abortion follow, discontinue the
corroborants, and give spermaceti medicines
with opiates, &c. as after child-birth.
ABSCESS.
Treatment. Common abscesses may be treated
by bringing them forward with proper cata-
plasms, and when ripe, opening, digesting, and
cicatrizing. Avoid evacuations during t :e
suppuration, unless inflammation require. See
also BOIL, PHLEGMON, and ULCER.
ABSORBENTS.
Opening. Magnesia. Astringent. Chalk, burnt
hartshorn, oister shells, crabs' claws, red coral,
French bole, lime-water.
ACID, ACETOUS.
This is radical vinegar as it is called. It is
used for smelling to in faintings.
-MURIATIC.
Tonic, stimulant, diuretic, lithontriptic ; gt.
xx. to xl.
-NITROUS.
Tonic, stimulant, diuretic ; gt. v. to xx.
-VITRIOLIC.
Tonic, stimulant, lithontriptic ; gt. ij. to v.
Dilute, gt. xxx. to lx.
ACONITUM.

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ACO AGU
ACONITUM. See Wolfsbane, blue.
ÆETHER, NITROUS, SPIRIT OF.
Diuretic, diaphoretic, sedative, febrifuge, car-
minative ; ℈j. to ʒj.
-VITRIOLIC
Antispasmodic, nervous ; gt. xx. to ℥ss. Also
externally as an anodyne. Spirit of. As
of nitrous; to ʒij.—Compound. Anodyne,
&c. ʒss. to ʒiss.
AGUE.
Symptoms. The fit begins with cold shiverings ;
a small quick pulse; pain in the back and
head ; nausea. To these succeed great heat
and fever, which terminate in sweats. The
urine during the fit, pale, clear, and without
sediment; but in the interval, turbid, with a
copious sediment of a reddish colour.
In the Quotidian Ague the fit returns once in
a day.
In the Tertian, every other day.
In the Quartan, the intermission is of two
whole days.
Treatment. The bark in substance ʒj. every
two hours during the intermission, adding an
opiate, if it run off by stool. If the stomach
will not bear the powder, give it in decoction
or infusion, or the extract in pills. Camo-
mile flowers, snakeroot, acid of vitriol, kali,
or 

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ALM ALT
or opium, may be added according to circum-
stances : or an emetic and cathartic may be
premised if necessary. The repetitions may
be less frequent after the fit has been missed
once or twice. Blue vitriol, gr. ss. dissolved
in ℥j. of proof spirit, and given before the fit,
has succeeded in some desperate cases ; so has
electricity, in or just before the fit. White
arsenic (which see) has been very effectual.
ALMOND, bitter.
Sedative, diuretic.
— sweet.
Obtunding. Milk of. ℥iv. to ℔ss. or more.
Oil of. Pectoral, opening; ʒij. to ℥iv.
Externally softening, relaxing.
ALOES, INSPISSATED JUICE.
Cathartic, anthelmintic ; ℈ss. to ℈ij. Emme-
nagogue; gr. v. to x. twice a day. Exter-
nally applied, vulnerary. Compound pills
of, to ʒj. Pills of, with Myrrh.
The same. Powder of, with Canella.
-WITH GUAIACUM. -WITH IRON.
See Powder aloetic, &c. Tincture of.
℥ss. to ℥iss. Compound. ʒss. to ʒij.-
Wine of. ʒj. to ʒij. As a cathartic;
to ℥ij.
ALTERATIVES.
Mercurials, antimonials, hemlock, mezereon,
water- 

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ALU AMM
water-parsnep, guaiacum, sarsaparilla, sassasras,
prepared natron, tar, aulphur. Any medicine
that works a cure gradually, by correcting the
patient's habit of body, may be called an al-
terative.
ALUM.
Tonic, astringent; gr. iv. to ℈j. Externally
astringent and cooling. Burnt. Escharotic.
Also internally, particularly in colic ; gr. ij.
to ℈ss. Compound water of. sftrin-
gent, cooling. Cataplasm of. The same
as an epithem ; chiefly in opthalmies.
AMBER.
Tonic; ʒss. to ʒj. Oil of, rectified.
Stimulating, nervous, emenagogue ; gt. v. to
xx. Salt of, purified. Nervous, diu-
retic; to ℈j.
AMMONIA, prepared.
Antacid, attenuant, stimulant, diaphoretic ; gr.
iij. to xv. Spirit of. The same ; gt. xx.
to lx. or more.—Compound. Also cepha-
lic ; gt. xx. to lx. or more.—Fetid. An-
tihyfteric; gt. xx. to lx.—Succinated, or
Eau de Luce. Chiefly for smelling- to. Wa-
ter of. Gt. xx. to lx. or more. Water
of acetated a. Attenuant, cooling, sudo-
rific, diuretic ; ʒij. to ℥ss. Water of pure
a. Caustic volatile alkali. Liniment op.
B Discutient, 

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AMM ANG
Discutient, rubefacient. Stronger, l. of.
The same.
AMMONIACUM, gum.
Stimulant, aperient; ℈ss. to ℈j. Milk of.
℥ss. to ℥j.
ANALEPTICS.
Cantharides, aromatic confection, saffron, cochi-
neal, aromatics and stimulants.
ANASARCA. See Dropsy.
ANEURISM,
OR AN ENLARGEMENT OF AN ARTERY,
(known by its pulsation.)
Treatment. Bleeding, and proper evacuations ;
with low spare diet. Lead may be bound
down pretty tight on the part. If these fail,
recourse must be had to the operation of ty-
ing it above and below the tumour.
ANGELICA, root, stalk, leaf,and seed.
Stimulant, aromatic ; ʒss. to ʒij.
ANGINA GANGRENOSA,
OR PUTRID SORE THROAT.
Symptoms. Giddiness in the head, alternate
heat and cold, and at length, after some hours,
constant great heat: sometimes vomiting or
purging ; pains in the head; eyes inflamed
and watery, as in the measles ; anxiety, faint-
ness, sore throat, with florid colour ; or else,
-a broad 

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ANG
a broad irregular spot, of a pale white colour,
surrounded with red. On the second or third
day the face, neck, breast, and hands swelled,
and as if erysipelatous ; an efflorescence of
many small red pimples sometimes appears on
the arms and other parts. The throat sloughs,
ulcerates, and is very painful. Offensive taste,
and delirium towards night.
Treatment. Avoid bleeding and evacuation,
gentle sudorifics and a slight emetic at the be-
ginning excepted ; and purgings should be
checked. Gargle, or rather syringe the
throat with the compound decoction of bar-
ley, to which vinegar, myrrh, and honey of
roses may be added. If the sloughs do not
separate, touch them with a rag dipped in a
mixture of oxymel of verdigris, ʒj. and ℥ij.
of the preceding gargle ; or gargle with water
acidulated with muriatic acid. But the prin-
cipal reliance must be on the bark given freely
with wine and acids. To restore the patient
give bark and vitriolic acid, with proper
strengthening diet.
ANGINA MAXILLARIS.
Symptoms. Lassitude, heaviness, general restless
uneasiness, gentle rigors, and slight fever :
these are followed by a stiffness, with obtuse
pain, in the articulation of the lower jaw : the
parotid glands, neighbouring skin, and cellular
membrane,

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ANG
membrane, swell: sometimes a dusky erysipe-
latous inflammation covers the tumour. If
the swelling subside suddenly, an exacerbation
of the symptoms comes on, with tumefaction
of one or both testicles. If this subside in
like manner, the head is affected, and deliri-
um follows, with convulsions, and other alarm-
ing symptoms, sometimes proving fatal.
Treatment. Promote perspiration from the parts
affected by keeping them warm ; cover the
swelling with a blister ; and give diaphoretics,
with opium, if necessary. The body should
be kept gently open ; but bleeding must be
carefully avoided, unless the most pressing in-
dications require it.
ANGINA PECTORIS.
Symptoms. A pain underneath some part of the
sternum, with a sense of strangling and anxi-
ety, coming on suddenly whilst walking, par-
ticularly soon after a meal, and vanishing on
standing still : after some months it does not
cease so instantaneously on standing still; will
come on when the patient is lying in bed ;
and sometimes even when standing still, or
sitting : the pain usually extends across the
breast, and is felt particularly at the insertion
of the pectoral muscle into the os humeri: it
is generally on the left side, sometimes on
both ; it recurs more or less frequently, per-
haps 

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ANI  ANT
haps for years ; and at length terminates in
sudden death.
Treatment. Wine and cordials have generally
been found to prevent or alleviate the night
fits, and opiates still more so. In one instance
antimonials, and the fetid gums, relieved the
disease confiderably in an early stage.
ANISEEDS.
Carminative ; gr. iv. to gr. xv. or in infusion to
℥iv. COMPOUND SPIRIT of. ʒj- to ℥ss.
ESSENTIAL OIL OF, gt. iv. to xx.
ANODYNES. See Sedatives.
ANTACIDS.
All alkalis, fixed or volatile, and Absorbents
ANTALKALINES.
All acids, wine.
ANTHELMINTICS.
Tin, mercurials, cowitch, fern, Indian pink, to-
bacco, camphor, assafoetida. Lubricating.
Oils of almonds and olives, castor oil. Tonic.
Wormseed, tansy, savine, camomile, rue, worm-
wood, lime-water. Cathartic. Hedge-hyssop,
bearsfoot, gamboge, aloes, scammony, jalap,
vitriolated natron.
St. ANTHONY'S FIRE. See Eryfipelas.
ANTIMONY, PREPARED.
Alterative ; ℈fs. to ʒj. CALCINED. Diapho-
B 2 retic, 

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retic, nauseating ; gr. v. to ʒfs. MURIATED
Caustic. PRECIPITATED SULPHUR OF. Al-
terative, emetic ; gr. ij. to viij. SAFFRON OF.
Emetic ; gr. ij. to vj. TARTARISED. Su-
dorific, febrifuge ; gr. [1/4] to i. Emetic ; gr. ij.
to iv. VITIRIFIED. For making the WINE
OF A. WINE OF. Alterative, diaphoretic ;
gr. x. to lx. Diuretic, cathartic ; ʒj. to ʒij.
Emetic ; ʒij. to ʒiv. TARTARISED, WINE
OF. The same. ANTIMONIAL POWDER;
gr. v. to xv. Said to be the same with James's
Powder.
ANTISCORBUTICS.
Antiseptics. Alteratives.
ANTISEPTICS.
Refrigerant. Acids, cold water, cold air. Tonic.
Bark, columbo, quassia, camomile, wormwood,
southernwood, mastic, lime-water. Stimulant.
Alcohol, wine, madder, rattle-snakeroot, horse-
radish, brook-lime, water-cress, scurvy-grass,
cummin. Antispasmodic. Camphor, myrrh,
assafœtida.
ANTISPASMODICS.
Stimulant. Electricity, spirit of vitriolic æther,
animal oil, oil of amber, musk, castor, mille-
pedes, fossil tar, camphor, assafœtida, galba-
num, myrrh, lady's-smock, ipecacuanha. Sed-
ative. Opium, compound spirit of vitriolic
æther,

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APH APP
æther, valerian, warm-bath. Tonic. Bark,
ginseng, rue, calcined zinc, blue vitriol, cold
water.
APHTHÆ. See Thrush, and Fever Aphthose.
APOPLEXY.
Symptoms. A sudden privation of sensation, and
voluntary motion. The face red, and bloat-
ed ; the mouth commonly open ; the pulse
strong and quick, especially at first ; respira-
tion strong, and attended with snorting.
Treatment. Blisters should be applied to the
back and legs, and mustard poultices to the
feet. Medicines of the warm, nervous kind, as
castor, valerian, camphor, assafœtida, and vol-
atile salts, should frequently be administered.
Authors distinguish between a sanguineous and
pituitous apoplexy : The first arising from a
turgidness of the vessels of the brain ; the last,
from ferous matter in the ventricles. In the
latter case, emetics of the antimonial kind are
serviceable, and bleeding should be prescribed
with great caution : in the former, bleeding
and evacuations are proper. A soft, mild,
and opening vegetable regimen is prescribed
for patients subject to the sanguineous ; and a
contrary one, with exercise, for such as are
recovered from a pituitous apoplexy.
APPETITE, canine.
Treatment. If an acid in the stomach be the
cause, 

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APH APP
cause, vomit, and give testaceous powders,
magnesia, or alkalis. If worms, give anthel-
mintics. If it be natural, or proceed from
other causes, oils, fat meats, and broths, milk,
and flour diet, will be proper : also opiates.
Smoking tobacco is likewise of service.
APPETITE, LOSS OF.
Treatment. If the stomach be foul, give a gen-
tle emetic of ipecacuanha ; and if necessary, a
gentle cathartic also. If it proceed from re-
laxation, the bitters, chalybeates, or bark, with
or without vitriolic acid. If acidity and wind
abound, join kali, or calcined magnesia, with
the bitters. Sena, rhubarb, tartarifed kali, or
other laxatives, may occasionally be employ-
ed, if necessary.
ARABIC, GUM.
Obtunding ; ℈j. to ʒij. 
ARNICA. See Leopard's-Bane, German.
AROMATICS.
Cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, mace, pimento, gin- I
ger, canella alba, cubebs, calamus aromaticus,
clove-july-flower, elecampane, angelica, cas-
carilla. 
ARSENIC, white.
This has lately been employed with great success
in intermittent fever, and periodical head-aches,
in 

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ART AST
in the following form. Dissolve 64 grs. with
an equal quantity of pure kali, by gently boil-
ing in a Florence flask, in half a pint of wa-
ter. When cold, add as much water as will
make the whole a pint. Of this the dose
should be sufiicient to excite nausea, generally
from gt. viij. to xx. twice or three times a day.
It sometimes vomits, gripes, and purges.
ARTICHOKE, LEAF.
Diuretic; a spoonful or two of the expressed
juice. Also in infusion.
ARUM, root.
Stimulant; ℈fs. to ℈j. Conserve of, ʒfs.
to 3j.
ASAFŒTIDA.
Stimulant, antispasmodic, vermifuge ; ℈fs. to
3j. MILK OF, ℥fs. to ℥ij. TINCTURE OF,
gt. x. to lx.
ASARABACCA, LEAF.
Stimulant, emetic, purgative ; ʒss. to ʒj. It is
also a powerful sternutatory. COMPOUND
POWDER OF. Errhine ; gr. v. or vj.
ASCITES. See Dropsy.
ASTHMA.
Symptoms. A difficulty of breathing, attended
with wheezing ; it returns at intervals ; is
preceded by disinclination to motion, loss of
appetite,

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AST
appetite, oppression, flatulency, and frequent
eructations. At length, the cheeks become
red, the eyes prominent, and there is such an
anxiety and sense of suffocation, that the pa-
tient can only breathe in an erect posture, and
can scarcely speak or expectorate. If he hap-
pen to sleep, he snores much ; at the height
of the fit is desirous of cool free air ; sweats
about the neck and forehead ; coughs up a
little frothy matter with great difficulty ; no
fever ; pulse extremely small and weak ; urine
pale and copious: as the fit abates, an expec-
toration of mucus ; the urine becomes higher
coloured, and deposits a copious sediment.
Treatment. During the fit bleed, if age or weak-
ness do not forbid ; blister between the shoul-
ders or at the pit of the stomach ; the body
should be opened with gentle cathartics ; then
give the pectorals and expectorants, joined, if
necessary, with antispasmodics and sedatives.
In the spasmodic asthma ipecacuanha in small
doses has suceeded: so has extract of hem-
lock given freely.
ASTRINGENTS.
Acetated cerusse, alum, iron. Opium, log-wood,
oak, galls, pomegranate shell and flower, tor-
mentil, simarouba, cinnamon, red rose, rhu-
barb, sloe, quince, catechu, lime-water, burjit
hartshorn, French bole. Externally. Prepa-
rations 

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ATR
rations of lead, calcined and vitriolated zinc,
calamine, tutty, water of vitriolated zinc with
camphor, white calx of quicksilver, decoction
of white hellebore, cerate of soap, stavesacre,
cold water.
ATROPHY.
Symptoms. A nervous consumption, or wasting
of the body ; without fever, or other hectic
symptoms.
Treatment. This must be varied according to-
the cause. If the appetite and digestion be
bad, give a gentle puke, and afterwards the
bitters with iron.  If scrophulous, chalybeates
with bark. If worms be the cause, anthel-
mintics. If lues venerea, mercurials and de-
coct, of sarsaparilla. If hysterics or hypo-
chondriasis, join chalybeates with the gum pill
or other medicines of this class. If profuse
evacuation, as fluor albus ; the bark, chaly-
beate waters, sarsaparilla, and exercise. If
attended with scurvy, the scorbutic juices,
vegetable acids, and bark. If asthmatic
symptoms appear, the squill preparations, or
other pectorals and antispasmodics, and blis-
ters. Diet, however, must assist medicine
in the cure ; which, where nothing forbids,
should be of the soft, nutritive, and strength-
ening kind, and easy of digestion ; as milk,
calves feet, and other jellies, &c The coun-
try air is good. 
AT- 

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ATT BAR
ATTENUANTS.
Diluent. Thin watery liquors, whey. Solvent.
Mercurials, alkalis, nitre, sal ammoniac, soap,
millepedes, burnt sponge, pareira brava, deadly
nightshade, broom, black hellebore, horse-
radish.
BALAUSTINES.
Tonic, astringent; ℈ss. to ʒss. Also in de-
coction.
BALM.
Tonic.
BALSAM, CANADA.
Tonic, stimulant, diuretic; gr. x. to xxx. lx.
or more.
BALSAM OF CAPIVI.
Corroborant, diuretic ; gut. x. to xxx. or up-
wards.
BALSAM OF PERU.
Gut. iv. to xv. for nervous complaints and head-
aches, gonorrhœas, asthmas, &c. TINCTURE
OF, ℈j. to ʒj.
BALSAM OF TOLU.
Gr. v. to ℈j. for coughs, &c. TINCTURE OF.
ʒj. to ʒij.
BARK, PERUVIAN. Sec Cinchona.
BARLEY, DECOCTION OF.
Emollient, obtunding; as common drink. COM-
POUND. The same. 
BA -

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BAR BIT
BARYTES, MURIATED.
Deobstruent, diuretic, tonic; gt. iv. to x. Twen-
ty have been given without producing nausea :
but in large doses it has deleterious effects.
BAY, LEAVES AND BERRIES.
Tonic. The leaf is also narcotic.
BEARING DOWN, See Procidentia,
and Prolapfus.
BEARSFOOT, LEAF.
Anthelmintic ; ʒj. to ʒij. in decoction, ʒij. to
℥fs. of the expressed juice.
BENJAMIN.
Gr. v. to ʒss. as a pectoral and asthmatic.
FLOWERS OF, the same; to ℈j. COMPOUND
TINCTURE OF. Stimulant, tonic, ℈j. to
ʒifs. Externally vulnerary.
BISTORT ROOT.|
Tonic ; to ʒ.
BITES and STINGS
OF VENOMOUS ANIMALS.
Treatment. To those of small insects, as gnats,
bugs, wasps, &c. apply volatile liquor of harts-
horn, milk, oil, honey, or vinegar : to that of
the viper, its own fat, oil of almonds, or wa-
ter of ammonia ; foment, poultice, and bleed,
if inflammation require; and give milk in-
wardly, with salt of hartshorn, opiate confec- 
etion,

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BLA BLO
tion, or other antidote. For the rattlesnake's
bite, give a spoonful or two of the juices of
plantain and horehound, and apply a tobacco
leaf steeped in rum to the part.
BLADDER INFLAMED.
Symptoms. Acute burning pain, and tension in
the part; with fever, frequent inclination to
go to stool, and constant desire to make water.
Treatment. As directed for kidneys inflamed.
BLEEDING EXTERNAL.
Apply the styptics mentioned under that word.
Bleed at the arm, purge, and give cooling
medicines if necessary. Keep the patient cool.
BLEEDING AT THE NOSE.
Treat as in Bleeding external; vinegar, or other
styptic, may also be snuffed up the nostrils, or
cotton plugs, dipped in them, put up. The
patient in this case also must be kept cool.
BLIGHT. See Erysipelas.
BLOOD, SPITTING OF, OR HÆMOPTOE.
Symptoms. A cough and short respiration at-
tend. If the blood coughed up appear florid,
liquid, and frothy, especially if the patient be
consumptive, it indicates a rupture of some
vessel in the lungs ; and is attended with pain
if occasioned by a fall, or bruise.
Treatment. Bleeding, laxatives, and styptics;
as alum, bark, compound tincture of benjamin,
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nitre, and occasionally an opiate ; the feet
bathed in warm water ; a slender cooling diet,
and no exercise. A table spoonful of fine
fait, taken in a dry form, has been found ex-
tremely efficacious.
BLOOD, VOMITING OF.
Symptoms. There, is no cough when the blood
comes from the stomach ; a sense of weight
and oppression precedes the vomiting ; the
stomach is often distended ; the blood of a
darker colour than in an hæmoptoe.
Treatment. As in the preceding case. Small
doses of vitriolated iron calcined are efficacious
in this, and also in a rupture of a vessel in the
intestines, and a consequent discharge of blood
by stools.
BOILS.
Treatment. They are to be ripened with proper
poultices ; opened, digested with ointment of
yellow resin, &c. and healed with cerate of
calamine, or the like. If fungous flesh ap-
pear, destroy it with red nitrated quicksilver, 
or other proper escarotic. Alteratives and 
edulcorants, with corroborants, if necessary,
should be given internally.
BOLE, FRENCH.
Absorbent, astringent; ℈j. to ʒij. Externally
desiccative.
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BOR BUC
BORAX.
Emmenagogue, stimulant, diuretic ; gr. v. or x.
to ℈ij. Externally to aphthæ.
BREASTS INFLAMED.
Symptoms. A few days after delivery the
breasts sometimes feel uneasy, or painful, and
swell, the milk stagnating.
Treatment. Gentle purges and cooling diapho-
retics. Apply the plaster of litharge, or of
soap, warm cloths, or the like, to the parts,
and to the axillae. If inflammation, foment,
and poultice with bread and milk. If suppu-
ration, continue to poultice, and let it break.
of itself; after which, digest with poultices or
otherwise, and cicatrize.
If fever appear during the inflammation, treat it
as directed for fever (milk.)
If the breasts be merely hard, fomentation, poul-
tices, and oil rubbed over them, are best.
BROOKLIME.
Antiseptic.
BROOM, TOP AND SEED.
Aperient, diuretic ; ʒfs- to ʒifs. EXTRACT OF
THE TOP, ʒfs. to ʒj.
BRUISES. See Contuficns.
BUBO. See Venereal Disease and Abscess.
BUCKBEAN.
Tonic, aperient; of the infusion a pint a day.
BUCK- 

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BUC CAN
BUCKTHORN, BERRY.
Cathartic; fresh about xx. in number, dry ʒj :
of the juice ℥j. SYRUP OF. ℥j. to ℥iij.
BURDOCK, ROOT.
Diuretic, sudorific ; ʒj.
BURNS. See Scalds.
CACHEXY. See Dropsy.
Treatment. Acetated kali, squills or other diu-
retics ; cathartics ; then chalybeates, bark,
&c. with proper exercise.
CALAMINE.
Astringent. In collyriums for inflamed eyes.
CERATE OF. Epulotic.
CALAMUS AROMATICUS.
Aromatic; gr. v. to ℈j.
CAMOMILE, FLOWERS.
Stomachic, tonic, antiseptic ; gr. v. to ʒss.
Some recommend a-cold infulion. EXTRACT
of. ℈j. to ℈ij.
CAMPHOR.
Diaphoretic, diuretic, antispasmodic ; gr. iij. to
ʒfs. or more. LINIMENT OF. Stimulant.
In local pains, chiefly of the head.
CANCER.
Symptoms. A round unequal tumour, of a livid
colour, surrounded with varicose vessels, and
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seated in the glandular parts of the body.
Some cancers are fixed, others moveable ;
some pale, others red and inflamed ; some-
times they remain harmless for years, at others
they increase hastily, ulcerate, discharge a fe-
tid sanious ichor, and soon prove mortal.
Treatment. Bleeding ; in cafe of inflammation,
cooling laxatives ; salt water, extract of hem-
lock, magnesia, soap, or the like, in small doses
as alteratives ; muriated barytes, the deadly
nightshade, and arsenic, have also been found
serviceable. Externally, apply lint only if
the tumour break : ablution with cold water
has been recommended, but water a little
warmed would, perhaps, be preferable. Hem-
lock fomentations have been found beneficial,
as hath also the herb called clivers. Calm-
ness of mind and proper regimen muft be ob-
served ; but extirpation with the knife, where
it can be done, is the only certain remedy.
For cancer in the womb, see womb.
CANELLA ALBA.
romatic, stimulant; ℈j. to ℈ij.
CANTHARIDES.
Analeptic, diuretic ; gr. ¼. to gr. ij. TINC-
TURE OF. The same ; gt. x. to xx. CE-
RATE OF. For raising or keeping open
blisters. Ointment of. For perpetual
blisters. 

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CAR CAS
blisters. PLASTER OF. For raising blis-
ters.
CARAWAY, seed.
Carminative; ℈ss. to ʒss. or in infusion. Es-
sential oil of. gt. i. to iij. This is said
by some to be also diuretic. SPIRIT OF.
ʒj. to ʒiij.
CARDAMOMS, LESSER.
Carminative; gr. iij. to ʒfs. TINCTURE OF.
ʒss. to ʒij.—Compound. Stomachic; ʒj.
to ℥fs.
CARDIALGIA. See- Heart-burn.
CARMINATIVES.
Aniseeds, caraway, lesser cardamoms, coriander,
fennel, juniper, rosemary, spirits of nitrous and
vitriolic æther, Aromatics.
CARROT, WILD, SEED.
Stimulant, diuretic ; ℈j. to ℈ij. in infusion,
CARUNCLES. See Urine.
CARUS.
Treatment as in the apoplexy, of which this is
only a slighter degree.
CASCARILLA, BARK.
Aromatic, tonic; ℈j. to ʒj. EXTRACT OF.
℈j. to ʒss. TINCTURE OF. ʒj. to ʒij.
CASSIA FISTULARIS, FRUIT.
Laxative; ʒij- to ℥ij. of the pulp, ELECTU-
ARY OF. ʒij. to ℥ij. CAS-

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CASTOR, RUSSIAN.
Nervous, antispasmodic, emmenagogue ; gr. iv.
to ℈j. TINTURE OF. ʒfs. to ʒij.
CASTOR OIL.
Laxative ; ℥fs. to ℥j. also nephritic and icteric.
CATALEPSY.
Symptoms. Sudden loss of sense and motion,
the limbs retaining any posture into which
they are put.
Treatment. Antispasmodics, stomachics, bark,
and opiates.
CATARRH. See Cold and Cough.
CATECHU, THE RESIN.
Astringent; ℈ss. to ʒss. Tincture of. ʒj.
to ʒiij.
CATHARTICS.
Stimulant. Elaterium, gamboge, scammony, col-
ocynth, buckthorn, elder, aloes, jalap, fresh
juice of orris root. Refrigerant. Vitriolated
and tartarifed natron; vitriolated, tartarifed,
and acetated kali; crystals of tartar, common
salt, purging mineral waters, flowers of sul-
phur, cassia fistularis, tamarinds, prunes. As-
tringent. Rhubarb, rattle-snakeroot, damask
rose, violet, senna. Emollient. Castor oil, oil
of almonds, soap, manna, honey, sugar. Nar-
cotic. Fox-glove, meadow-saffron, white and
black hellebore, hedge-hyssop, tobacco.
CAUSTICS. 

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CAU CHI
CAUSTICS,
Pure kali, lime with pure kali, nitrated silver,
muriated antimony, mineral acids.
CENTAURY, LESSER, TOPS.
Tonic ℈j. to ʒj.
CEPHALICS.
Compound spirit of ammonia, lavender, rose-
mary, nervous medicines.
CERUSSE.
Externally cooling, astringent. ACETATED.
The same.— OINTMENT OF. The same.
COMPOUND POWDER OF CERUSSE. The
same. Acet. Cer. has been given internally,
from gr. ss. to gr. iij..
CHALK.
Absorbent, cardialgic ; ℈j. to ʒj. Compound
powder of. The same, also astringent; ℈j.
to ʒj.—with opium. 43½ gr. contain 1
of opium. TROCHES OF. Chiefly for the
heart-burn.
CHICKEN-POX. See Pox.
CHILBLAINS.
Is not broken, bathe them with camphorated
spirit, oil of turpentine, urine, brine, melted
salt butter, or rub them with snow. Is they
break, dress them with warm digestives, and
afterwards with the cerate of calamine.
CHILD.

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CHI CHO
CHILD-BIRTH.
If there be a profuse discharge os the lochia, give
cooling medicines and acids. Is the lochia
be stopped, clysters, laxatives, and antimonials
in nauseating doses : but be cautious of bleed-
ing. If a puerperal, or milk fever, treat them
as under those articles. After delivery, and
the after-birth, spermaceti, with gentle opi-
ates ; and, is necessary, castor, or other uterine.
remedy. Keep the body open, and let stools
be procured the second or third day after de-
livery at farthest.
CHLOROSIS. See Menses obstructed.
CHOLERA MORBUS.
Symptoms. Violent vomiting and looseness, from;
bile abounding in the stomach and bowels;
sharp pains, gripings, and flatulency ; thirst,
heat, anxiety, with quick and unequal pulse;
cold sweats, and at length syncope, and cold-
ness in the extremities. Chiefly attacks young
persons, and in the summer and autumn. 
Treatment. Large and frequent draughts of
chicken broth, without salt, to the quantity of
a gallon or two ; and clysters of the same
should be continually injected. If the vomit-
ing continue, give an infusion of oat bread, 
toasted brown, in water ; afterwards cinna-
mon water, aromatic confection, columbo
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CIN CLO
root, compound powder of chalk, or the like,
with opium. An emetic may be proper, as
also ripe fruit, &c. See Colic, bilious.
CINCHONA, the bark.
Tonic, febrifuge, antiseptic, stomachic ; ℈j. to
ʒj. or more, several times a day. The red
bark is the species that ought to be preserred.
DECOCTION OF. ℥ij. or upwards. EX-
TRACT OF, and EXTRACT OF WITH THE
REZIN. ℈j. or more. TINCTURE OF, and
COMPOUND TINCTURE OF. ʒj t0 ℥ss or
more. AMMONIATED TINCTURE OF. ʒss.
to ʒj. or more.
CINNABAR.
Alterative, vermifuge ; gr. iij. to ℈j.
CINNAMON.
Aromatic, carminative, astringent; ℈ss. to ʒss.
TINCTURE OF. ʒj. to ʒij.—COMPOUND.
ʒss. to 3iss. SPIRIT OF. Cordial; ʒj. to
ʒiij. WATER OF. ℥j. to ℥ij.
CINQUEFOIL, ROOT.
Tonic ; ʒss. to ʒij.
CLOVES.
Aromatic, stimulant; gr. v. to ℈j.
CLOVE-JULY FLOWER.
Aromatic, tonic.
COCHINEAL 

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COC COL 
COCHINEAL. 
Cordial, sudorific Now chiefly used as a col-
ouring drug.
CŒLIAC PASSION.
Symptoms. A purging or discharge of aliment
indigested, and somewhat like chyle, with
wasting of the body.
Treatment. An emetic ; stomachic, astringent,
and warm tonic remedies ; as bitters, extract
of logwood, chalk, opiate confection, opium,
&c. with proper diet.
COLD and COUGH.
Symptoms well known. In phlegmatic habits,
the cough is moist ; and in the hypochondriac
and scorbutic, dry.
Treatment. Gentle and regular warmth ; bleed-
ing, if nothing forbid ; and especially is a fe-
ver, or pain in the breast, &c. arise. Oily, or
spermaceti medicines, or other pectorals, with
opiates. If costive, proper laxatives ; and if
the stomach be loaded with phlegm, an emetic.
Where greasy medicines disagree, give muci-
lages of linseed, tragacanth, or quince seeds,
squills, lozenges of liquorice, &c. Blisters
are very efficacious, as are also gentle sudorif-
ics repeatedly taken, with diluents and saline
febrifuges, when the perspiration is obstructed,
and fever appears.
COLIC, 

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COL
COLIC, BILIOUS.
Symptoms. An acute pain, and obstruction in
the intestines ; accompanied with a vomiting
of yellow or greenish bile. A bitter taste
in the mouth, with great heat. The pain
sometimes fixed about the region of the navel,
sometimes all over the abdomen, at other times
shifting from one part to another. A pulsa-
tion and cold are likewise felt in the belly.
Urine little or none. frequently hoarseness,
with thirst and fever. Most prevalent in
summer.
Treatment. Bleed, and give an emetic, with a
large quantity of infusion of camomile, or the
like, to work it oss; then give cathartics (pills
chiefly, or castor oil) with opium, and open-
ing emollient clysters. If these fail, put the
patient into the warm bath. If the vomiting
continue, saline draughts, with tincture of
opium. In this case columbo root has been
particularly useful. Pills of gr. ss. or gr. j.
of crude opium are most powerful in removing
pain and spasm, and enable the cathartics to
take the better effect.
COLIC, hysteric.
Symptoms. This is a disease to which women of
lax and gross habits, and of irritable disposi-
tions, chiefly are subject. It begins with vi-
D olent 

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COL
olent pain in the region of the stomach, much
green and yellow matter is vomited, and great
lowness of spirits succeeds ; the pain goes off
in a day or two, and frequently returns again
in a few weeks with equal violence. Some-
times it is attended with jaundice, which in
a few days goes off.
Treatment. Avoid bleeding and purging, unless
plethora or costiveness indicate ; clear the
stomach with warm water, camomile tea, &c.
then give a carminative antispasmodic, with
opium, (as castor, aromatic confection, opiate
confection) which may be occasionally repeat-
ed. Recruit the strength with bark, bitters,
air, exercise, chalybeates, &c. This disorder
in men is called the Hypochondriac Colic, and
should be treated in like manner.
COLIC, INFLAMMATORY,
OR INFLAMMATION OF THE BOWELS.
Symptoms. A vehement burning fixed pain is
felt in the parts most affected, with heat of the
whole body, quick pulse, loss of strength,
anxiety and restlessness.
Treatment. Bleed largely, and repeat it is ne-
cessary, and the pulse will bear it; procure
stools with soft mild cathartics, as castor oil,
oily mixtures with manna, and tartarised kali,
or the like ; or is these will not stay, with
pills 

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COL
pills of the comp. ext. of colocynth and opi-
um ; emollient clysters should be frequently
given, and soft emollient liquids drunk ; the
bowels should be fomented, bladders of water,
bags of salt or oats heated, the skins of ani-
mals just killed applied to the part; and the
warm bath should be prescribed, is these prove
ineffectual. In case of violent vomiting, give
the saline draughts in the act of effervescence ;
and the pain and spasm, if violent, may be
abated with pills of crude opium ; blisters may
be applied to the part affected. The fumes of
tobacco may be thrown up the fundament, is
all other cathartics fail; or give quicksilver.
COLIC, NERVOUS,
CALLED ALSO THE DEVONSHIRE COLIC, COLIC
OF POICTIERS, DRY GRIPES, AND THE DRY
BELLY-ACHE.
Symptoms. It begins with a sense of weight or
pain at the pit of the stomach, attended with
loss of appetite, yellowness in the counte-
nance, a slight nausea, and costiveness ; a vom-
iting of acrid slime, and green bile, succeeds ;
the pain often descends to the navel, shooting
thence to each side, with great violence ; the
intestines seem drawn to the spine, with con-
vulsive spasms ; the pain continues without re-
mission for several hours together; pulse as in
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health ; no fever, but rather lowness ; when
at length the pain abates, an odd tingling is
felt along the spine of the back, which ex-
tending to the legs and arms, they become
weak and paralytic.
Treatment. Vomit several times with warm cam-
omile tea, then give opium in pills or other-
wise, as also by clyster ; the pain and tension
being removed by these, give gentle cathartics,
such as castor oil, infus. of sen. with salts, and
the like ; laxative clysters may also be pre-
scribed ; bleed, if the pulse be high ; stools
being procured, an anodyne, carminative, and
antispasmodic may be given, as camphor, va-
lerian, castor, aromatic confection, or the like,
with opium. Is the pain return, have recourse
again to opium pills ; is paralytic symptoms
come on, embrocate the limbs and spine with
lin. of ammonia, camphor, spirit, or other
warm liniment. If convulsions, give musk
with opium. After the disorder, bark, with
bitters and rhubarb, should be ordered ; to-
gether with a light, but nutritive diet. Flan-
nel may also be worn round the waist.
Painters and glaziers, who are subject to this dis-
order on account of the lead used in their
work, rely on burnt gin, which I have seen
them take with surprising success. A dose or
two of alum, of ℈j. each, have been sound to .
be a powerful remedy. 
COLIC 

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COL
COLIC, STONE, OR NEPHRITIS.
Symptoms. The colic which sometimes ariseth
from the stone, may be known from the other
kinds by the following signs : There is a fix-
ed pain in the kidney, which is propagated to
the genitals ; stools afford present relief in
other colics, but not in this ; after eating, the
pain is increased in others, but lessened in
this ; in others, the urine is thicker in the be-
ginning than afterwards, but in this, it is at
first clear and thin, and afterwards lets fall
gravel, or other sediment.
Treatment. Turpentine clysters are given with
good effect ; soap with opium, or other ne-
phritic anodyne ; care also being taken to
keep the body open. But for more on this
head, see the article STONE.
COLIC WIND.
Symptoms. A wandering pain in the bowels, with
rumblings, which abate on the expulsion of
air ; the pain is not increased by pressure ;
thirst not extraordinary; and the pulse but
little disturbed.
Treatment. Bleed, if the patient can bear it ;
stools must be procured by saline or other ca-
thartics, and emollient clysters ; previous to
which, an emetic may also be given, is judged
necessary; fomentations, or bladders of hot
water, may be applied to the belly ; as may
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COL CON
likewise anodyne, spirituous, and aromatic
embrocations, as the soap liniment with opium
and oil of mint, or the like. A passage being
procured, carminatives joined with opium may
be administered.
COLICA MECONIALIS. See Meconium.
COLOCYNTH, PITH OF THE FRUIT.
Cathartic ; gr. viij. to xij. COMPOUND EX-
TRACT OF. gr. xv. to ℈ij.
COLTSFOOT.
Obtunding, tonic.
COLUMBO, root.
Tonic, stomachic, antiseptic, antiemetic ; ʒss. to
ʒij. TINCTURE OF. ʒss to ʒij
COMA. See Carus.
CONFECTION, AROMATIC.
Cordial, carminative ; ℈ss. to ʒj.
CONsECTION, OPIATE.
Alexipharmic, anodyne ; ℈ss. to ℈ij.
CONSUMPTION, NERVOUS. See Atrophy.
CONSUMPTION, PULMONARY, OR
PHTHISIS.
Symptoms. Habitual fever; wasting of all parts
of the body ; dry cough ; quick small pulse ;
moderate heat; lassitude ; faintness ; night
sweats ; flying pains and stitches ; uneasiness
about 

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about the diaphragm and breasts ; the expec-
torated matter purulent; sometimes bloody
and offensive, with white round lumps. If
the symptoms be violent, a spitting of blood
soon follows, which is thin, florid, and frothy ;
but it afterwards becomes paler, and the dis-
charge changes at length into pus. Towards
the end of the disease a diarrhœa frequently
comes on, and the legs are apt to swell. Ul-
cers, or tubercles in the lungs, are the cause.
In general the complexion is florid, and the
teeth sound, and of a milky whiteness more
or less opaque.
Treatment. At the beginning, whilst symptoms-
of inflammation occur, bleed in small quantity,
and repeat it is necessary, giving nitre, and pur-
suing the antiphlogistic regimen. Ipecacuanha
in small doses, or decoction of seneka root, is
sometimes useful. Issues or setons are frequent-
ly serviceable, or a perpetual blister at the pit of
the stomach. But the antiphlogistic plan must
be pursued no longer than the inflammatory
stage continues. After that has subsided regard
must be had to strengthening the system by
the bark, chalybeates, &c. Opiates may be
administered at night, is necessary, to appease
the cough, and procure rest. Myrrh given
to ʒiij. or ʒiv. a day, with camphor and ni-
tre, has been sound an efficacious remedy by
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some : others have recommended burying the
patient up to the chin in fresh dug earth for
some time. for sweats give the vitriolic
acid ; or let a calico waistcoat, steeped in a
strong decoction os bark, well dried, and re-
newed daily, be worn next the skin. Change .
of air, and gentle exercise, are good: the
body sbould be guarded against cold ; and the
diet be light, mild, and nutritive ; as jellies,
broths, milk, butter-milk, &c. Dr. Simmons's
excellent treatise on this subject may be con-
suted.
CONTRAYERVA, ROOT.
Tonic, stimulant, diaphoretic; gr. v. to ℈j. or
more. COMPOUND POWDER. Sudorif-
ic ; ℈j. to ʒj.
CONTUSIONS.
Treatment. Bathe the part with vinegar, lin. of 
soap, or of ammonia, water of acetated am-
monia, or arquebusade ; and, if necessary, ap- 
ply a poultice of oatmeal and vinegar. If 
there be inflammation, bleed, and purge, use
emollient fomentations and cataplasms. If
suppuration appear, apply proper topical rem-
edies to forward it, and treat as in abscesses.
CONVULSIONS.
Symptoms. Involuntary contractions or spasms
of the muscles, and consequent motions of the
parts 

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COP COR
parts which they serve. Children, and women
of delicate constitutions, are most subject to
this complaint.
Treatment. If a plethora be indicated, bleed;
if otherwise, avoid it; blisters, laxatives, and
emollient clysters, if nothing forbid ; the ner-
vous and antispasmodic medicines, as assafœti-
da, castor, camphor, musk, volatile salts, ani-
mal oil, with opium, if necessary. If the bow-
els be convulsed, opium may be added to the
clysters also. The parts may be rubbed ex-
ternally with some warm anodyne embroca-
tion : free air should be allowed to the patient.
In children, this complaint often proceeds from
an acid in the primæ viæ; magnesia is then
proper. Worms may also occasion it; an-
thelmintics are in this case to be given. Blis-
ters, and anodynes, used with caution, are good.
Valerian, in very large doses, both in powder
and decoction, has cured violent convulsions,
of a long standing. A spasm os the œsopha-
gus, preventing deglutition, has been cured by
cataplasms of hemlock and henbane.
COPPER, AMMONIATED, WA,
TER OF.
Externally detersive.
CORAL, RED.
Absorbent; ℈j. to ʒj.
CORIANDER, 

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COR COU
CORIANDER, SEED.
Aromatic, stimulant; ℈j. to ʒj.
CORNS.
Cover them with litharge or other plaster, after
bathing them in warm water, and paring them
as much as convenient away. Large easy
shoes should be worn, and a little cotton may
be laid over them, to prevent their being rub-
bed or pressed.
CORROBORANTS.
Incrassants, and Tonics.
COUGH, HOOPING.
Symptoms. It affects children ; who by reason
that the phlegm is difficult of expectoration
strain violently to bring it up ; with a whoop-
ing noise, till they are almost suffocated and
convulsed.
Treatment. If inflammatory symptoms, or fever
appear, bleed ; give small doses of ipecac, or
tartarised antimony, to bring up the phlegm.
Keep the body rather lax ; and prescribe an-
tispasmodics : gentle sedatives of syr. of white
poppy are efficacious ; blisters, gentle sudo-
rifics, and a spare, thin, but nourishing diet.
Bark may be given, with castor, to support
the patient's strength. But change of air,
srequently repeated, sometimes does wonders
in these cases.
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COW CUT
COW-ITCH.
Anthelmintic. The hairs covering the pods are
given in syrup or melasses ; those of one pod
a dose.
CRAB, the claws.
Absorbent; ℈j. to ʒj. COMPOUND POWDER
OF. The same.
CUBEBS.
Aromatic, stimulant; gr. v. to ℈j.
CUCKOW-PINT. See Arum.
CUCUMBER, WILD, FRESH FRUIT.
Strongly purgative, stimulant; gr. ss. to ij. or
iij. of the dried fecule of the juice.
CUMMIN, SEED.
Stimulant, antiseptic; ℈j. to ʒj. POULTICE
OF. The same. PLASTER OF. Discutient.
CURRANT, BLACK and RED, the
FRUIT.
Cooling, antiseptic. INSIPISSATED JUICE OF
THE BLACK. In recent catarrhs, attended
with slight sore throat.
CUTANEOUS DISEASES.
See the articles Itch, Scurvy and Tetters.
CUTS.
Apply compound tincture of benjamin, afterwards
dress with some mild digestive, and then cica-
trize. 

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trize. If an artery be wounded, it must be ta-
ken up, or the sponge tent applied. See Wounds.
DANCE, ST. VITUS'S.
Symptoms. Convulsions of the legs, arms, and
head; inarticulate speech, and lolling out of
the tongue ; drawing one leg after, like an
ideot; with variety of odd and ridiculous ges-
tures. Chiefly affects the youthful.
Treatment. Emetics, cathartics, valerian root
in large quantities ; bark, chalybeates, sea-
bathing ; electricity, millepedes, and quick-
silver with sulphur, have been of use ; blisters
and bleeding, if judged necessary. If worms
be the cause, give anthelmintics.
DANDELION, ROOT AND HERB.
Aperient, diuretic ; ℥iss. to ℥iv. of the expressed
juice.
DEAFNESS.
Treatment. If it proceed from hardened wax,
syringe the ears with warm water, or soap and
water, or apply a tent made of the fresh pith
of a cabbage stalk. If the wax be deficient,
drop in oil of almonds, with a little oil of rose-
mary, or the like. If cold be the cause,
warmth, the remedies used against colds, and
syringing with some warm soft liquid. If it
be nervous, give the nervous medicines, bark,
&c. and apply blisters. Electricity has been
found 

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sound useful. If inflammation, bleed, purge,
blister, foment, poultice, and prescribe the
pediluvia. Is there be ulcers, use injections,
with tinct. of myrrh, honey, &c. If insects
be in the ear, fill the meatus with warm oil
or water, or throw in the fumes of tobacco.
DELIVERY. See Child-birth.
DENTITION. See Teething.
DETERGENTS.
Verdegris, water of ammoniated copper, tincture
of myrrh, simple oxymel, honey of roses, hon-
ey, turpentine.
DIABETES. See Urine.
DIAPHORETICS. See Sudorifics.
DIARRHŒA.
Symptoms. A purging, without much sickness
or pain ; succeeded by loss of appetite ; and
sometimes nausea, fever, with weak pulse, dry
skin, and thirst.
Treatment. If it proceed from any thing offen-
sive in the bowels, give rhubarb first, either in
powder or tincture ; and afterwards astrin-
gents and absorbents, as chalk mixture, com-
pound powder of chalk, extract of logwood,
columbo root, &c. with or without opium as
you see necessary. Starch clysters, with
opium, and bleeding, if requisite, may be pre-
scribed.
E If

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If weakness of the bowels and indigestion occa-
sion the complaint, the bitters, bark, or cha-
lybeates. If obstructed perspiration, gentle
sudorifics should be interposed.
Sometimes a purging is an effort of nature, to
relieve the constitution from offending mat-
ters, or it is critical. You must be careful to
distinguish in these cases, as checking the
purging may be followed by a fever, or other
bad consequences.
In diarrhœas, vegetable and acescent diet should
be refrained from ; decoct. of hartshorn is
best for common drink, and rice victuals for
food. When purgings proceed from a pu-
trescent cause, ripe fruits and antiseptics are
proper.
DIGESTIVES.
Turpentine ; ointments of gum elemi, yellow re-
sin, and tar ; plaster of wax.
DILL, SEED.
Stimulant, slightly aromatic ; ʒss. to ʒj. WA-
TER OF. To infants, ʒj.
DISCUTIENTS.
Liniment os ammonia, all ointments and plasters
with quicksilver, sal ammoniac, camphor, lin-
iment and plaster of soap, hemlock, plaster of
cummin, wormwood in fomentations, decoc-
tion for fomentation, electricity.
DIU- 

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DIURETICS.
Stimulant. Salt of amber, oil os turpentine, tur-
pentine, balsams of Canada and capivi, juniper,
wild carrot, broom, artichoke, parsley, mead-
ow-sassron, sennel, pareira brava, squill, soap,
millepedes, cantharides. Refrigerant. Kali,
nitre, acetated kali, spirits of nitrous and vit-
riolic æther. Diluent. Watery liquors, min-
eral waters. Narcotic. Fox-glove, tobacco,
woody nightshade, dandelion.
DRAGON's-BLOOD.
Tonic ; ℈ss. to ʒss.
DROPSY.
Symptoms. A collection of water or serum in
some part of the body. Before the disorder
is perfectly formed it is called Cachexy ; when
the lymph is accumulated in the cellular mem-
brane it is called Anasarca, or Leucophlegma-
tia; when there is a collection of water in
the abdomen, it is termed Ascites ; if in the
head, Hydrocephalus ; if in the breast, Hy-
drops pectoris ; if in the womb, Hydrops uteri;
and if in the scrotum, Hydrocele.
In common dropsies the legs usually swell, and
a pit remains for some time after pressing the
flesh with the finger; the appetite abates ; the
face either bloats or becomes thin and pale ;
little urine is made ; and thirst, slow fever,
shortness of breath, lassitude and heaviness, at-
tend.

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tend. These symptoms obtain especially in
the anasarca and ascites. In the hydrocepha-
lus, convulsions, squinting, shunning the light,
opening of the sutures, and vomiting of bile,
commonly occur, especially is the disease be
far advanced.
Treatment. In the Anasarca and Ascites, purges
with jalap, scammony, calomel, gamboge, ela-
terium, or the like, twice or thrice a week.
Squills, tinct. of cantharid. prepared kali, or
acetated kali, with bitter infusion. Emetics
and sudorifics, blisters and scarifications, pre-
scribed with due caution, have often good ef-
fect, otherwise they may do harm. Bark
may be given if the strength flag, or consump-
tive symptoms appear. Weak liquids of all
kinds used to be avoided, but are now allow-
ed freely with success, especially after the
drastic purges. Crystals of tartar, given in
large quantity, have had good effect. Gum
guaiacum has also been recommended. Of
late fox-glove has been much celebrated ; and
infusion of tobacco has been remarkably effi-
cacious. In Germany the deadly nightshade
is said to have been very successful. In this
complaint bread is generally ordered to be
toasted, and flesh to be baked, roasted or
broiled. Smoking is of great use, and mus-
tard-seeds taken whole have often been of
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If the disorder arise from the too copious use of
weak liquids, or obstructed perspiration, sudo-
rifics are much to be depended upon. If
from drunkenness ; riding on horseback and
the use of wine, or rather geneva diluted with
water, in moderate quantity, will be useful.
If from a consumptive tendency; diuretics,
joined with corroborants. If after great loss
of blood, or from tedious severs; cathartics
should not be used too freely, but chalybeates,
bark, and bitters sliould be chiesly relied on.
In the Ascites, tapping must be performed, if
the methods above recommended fail.
In Dropsy of the breast, diuretics are chiefly to
be employed, cathartics only occasionally.
Blisters applied below the breast, and even on
the thighs or legs, and kept open, are also
very effectual.
In the Hydrocephalus internus, a salivation ex-
cited by mercury has of late been recommend-
ed, but its efficacy is not yet clearly ascer-
tained ; purges may be given, and medicines
of the carminative and antispasmodic kind.
Blisters, setons, and issues, should also be pre-
scribed.
In the Dropsy of the womb, emetics, stimulating
clysters, and occasionally cathartics ; diuretic,
attenuant, and resolvent medicines should be
given ; and fomentations and vapour baths
advised.
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In the Hydrocele, let out the water with the tro-
car at the bottom part of the scrotum, and in-
ject wine to produce adhesive inflammation.
If pure wine give too much pain, dilute it
with water ; if it do not excite sufficient in-
flammation, acuate it with spirit. When water
is contained in the cellular membrane, treat
it as an Anasarca.
DRY GRIPES, OR DRY-BELLY-ACHE.
See Colic, Nervous.
DYSENTERY, BLOODY-FLUX.
Symptoms. A discharge of mucus, blood, and pu-
rulent matter by stool; violent gripings ; pain
in the loins, and anus ; tenesmus, and fever.
Treatment. A rhubarb, or other gentle purge,
and, after proper evacuation, chalk mixture
with spermaceti, and an opiate. Avoid bleed-
ing, unless the pulse be hard, full, and strong;
and give starch clysters with opium and astrin-
gents ; columbo root, and boluses of bees wax
and spermaceti, with compound powder of
chalk, are efficacious. Small doses (a grain
or two) of ipecac, have often succeeded. Su-
dorifics are sometimes of use, by promoting a
determination to the surface of the body.
Emollient fomentations, and balsamic clysters
with opium, will best remove the tenesmus.
The diet as in the diarrhœa. Milk with mut-
ton 

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ton suet boiled in it, and the fat afterwards
taken off, is esteemed excellent.
DYSURIA. See Urine.
EAR-ACHE. See Deafness.
ELATERIUM. See Cucumber, Wild.
ELDER,
INTERIOR, BARK, FLOWER, AND BERRY.
Bark strongly emetic and purgative; ℥ss. to ℥j.
of the expressed juice : flower and berry lax-
ative. Inspissated juice of the berry.
Diuretic, laxative, sudorific ; ʒj. to ℥j. or
more. Ointment of. Cooling, emollient.
ELECAMPANE, ROOT.
Aromatic, stimulant; ʒj. to ʒij.
ELECTRICITY
Has been sound beneficial in rheumatism, gout,
deafness, tooth-ache, swellings not suppurated,
inflammations, gutta serena, fistula lachryma-
lis, palsy, ulcers, cutaneous eruptions, nervous
head-ache, ague, suppression of the menses,
St. Vitus's dance, and contractions of the
muscles. It should be applied by directing a
stream of the fluid to the part. Shocks in
general should be avoided, or be at most very
slight.
ELEMI, GUM
Stimulant. In ointments. COMPOUND OINT-
MENT OF. Digestive.
ELM, 

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ELM, INNER BARK.
Tonic, aperient. DECOCTION OF. ℔ss. to ℔j.
EMETICS.
Irritating. Blue vitriol, vitriolated and calcin-
ed zinc, vitriolated quicksilver, titillation of
the fauces. Heating. Mustard, horse-radish,
blessed thistle, camomile. Nauseating. An-
timonials, squill, ipecacuanha, elder bark,
warm water. Narcotic. Tobacco, fox-glove,
white hellebore.
EMMENAGOGUES.
Iron, mercurials, antimonials, black hellebore,
savine, madder, horehound, pills of gum,
aloes, myrrh, cantharides, borax, rectified oil
of amber, essential oil of juniper, garlic, horse-
radish, electricity, compression of the femoral
arteries.
EMOLLIENTS.
Expressed oils, lard, spermaceti, mucilages, mal-
low, marsh-mallow, coltsfoot, fenugreek, figs,
raisins, liquorice, sweet almonds, barley, warm
vapour, the warm bath.
EMPYEMA.
Symptoms. An enlargement of the cavity of the
thorax, and œdematous fulness of the skin
and flesh of one side thereof; dry cough, and
difficult breathing. It ariseth from matter
formed, and lying loose in the thorax.
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Treatment, may be much like that prescribed in
the Vomica. Medicines which promote ab-
sorption, and blisters, may also be useful.
But letting out the matter, where it can con-
veniently be done, is the best cure.
EPILEPSY.
Symptoms. Languid pulse, pale countenance, and
afterwards great pain in the head, with stupor
and drowsiness, sometimes precede the fit ;
though it often comes on without these pre-
vious symptoms. The patient falls down sud-
denly, gnashes the teeth, froths at the mouth,
uses many disagreeable gesticulations and dis-
tortions, and sometimes discharges involunta-
rily by stool and urine.
Treatment. If the vessels be full, bleed ; emet-
ics and laxatives are proper ; warm, nervous,
antispasmodic, and attenuating remedies, as
castor, valerian, assafœtida; cinnabar, animal
oil, salt of hartshorn, &c. should be directed.
Blisters kept open, and setons, are very ser-
viceable ; flowers of zinc have succeeded well,
a grain or two at a dose once or twice a day.
To restore the strength and prevent returns,
the bark, or other corroborant, and the cold
bath, with proper diet, air, and exercise.
EPISPASTICS.
Rubefacient. Burgundy pitch, mustard, nettle,
horse-radish, volatile alkalis, liniment of am-
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monia, liniment of camphor, oil of fossil tar,
essential oil of lavender. Vesicating. Cantha-
rides, fresh inner bark of mezereon or spurge-
laurel. Suppurative. Issues, setons, perpetual
blisters.
ERRHINES.
Sternutatory. White and black hellebore, ipe-
cacuanha. Evacuant. Vitriolated quickfil-
ver, afarabacca, tobacco, Syrian herb-mastic,
marjoram.
ERYNGO, ROOT.
Stimulant, diuretic.
ERYSIPELAS.
Symptoms. The usual precursory symptoms of a
fever ; the face, or other parts affected, in-
flamed, with scurfs, pimples, and blisters, heat,
redness, itching, and smarting ; drowsiness
and difficulty of breathing commonly attend.
Treatment. Is symptoms indicate, bleed, and
give proper lenitives, and cooling diaphoretic
febrifuges. Blisters, and cordial sudorifics, as
camphor, contrayerva, &c. if low pulse and
malignancy require. In the present practice
the bark is chiefly relied on. The parts may be
bathed with softening fomentations, milk, &c.
ESCHAROTICS.
Blue vitriol, red nitrated quicksilver, burnt alum,
verdegris, Caustics.
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EXPECTORANTS.
Stimulant. Ammoniacum, affascetida, guaiacum,
elecampane, orris. Nauseating. Squill, gar-
lic, tobacco, tar. Antispasmodic. Warm bath-
ing, aqueous vapour, vapour of spirit of vitri-
olic æther, blisters. Irritating. Acid va-
pours, tobacco smoke.
EYES INFLAMED, OR OPHTHALMIA.
Inflammation of the outward coats of the eye,
attended with pricking pain, heat, pulsation,
redness, swelling, and scalding tears.
Treatment. Bleed, purge, apply leeches to the
temples, and blister the back or behind the
ears ; cooling febrifuges may also be given ;
direct collyriums, with vitriolated zinc, ace-
tated cerusse, or alum ; or, if astringents disa-
gree, warm milk, decoction of mallow leaves
in milk or water, or other emollient fomenta-
tion ; or poultice of milk and bread, and bathe
the feet in warm water. If it arise from mere
weakness of the vessels, astringent collyriums,
or alum curd ; and bark, or other tonics, may
be given internally. If Nervous, join Vale-
rian, castor, or the like, with the bark. If
Scorbutic, or other humours attend, perpetual
blisters or setons, with mercurial, or other
proper alteratives. If Tubercles in the eye
be the cause, anoint them with ointment of
quicksilver, and give small doses of calomel
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For watery eyes, gentle cathartics and alteratives,
and wash them with brandy and water.
For specks in the eye, blow lap. cal. sugar, of.
sæpiæ, tutty, white vitriol with sugar, or the
like, through a small tube into the eye ; or
drop in solutions os vitriolated zinc, acetated
cerusse, &c.
FALLING SICKNESS. See Epilesy.
FEBRIFUGES.
Bark, arsenic, tartarised antimony, wine of anti-
mony, antimonial powder, water of acetated
ammonia, nitre, sal ammoniac, spirits os ni-
trous and vitriolic æther.
FENNEL, SWEET, SEED.
Carminative, diuretic ; ℈j. to ℈ij. or in infu-
sion. WATER OF. The same.
FENUGREEK, SEED.
Obtunding, emollient; chiefly in cataplasms, fo-
mentations, and clysters.
FERN, ROOT.
Anthelmintic ; ʒj. to ʒss. fasting.
FEVER APHTHOSE,
OR THE THRUSH FEVER IN ADULTS. 
Symptoms. Fever, with ulcerations or aphthæ;
distinguishable from the putrid sore throat by
the whiteness of the sloughs, by the edges not
being red, and by there being no shining red-
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FEV
Treatment. Febrifuges, bark, and antiseptics ;
blisters if necessary. Proper laxatives, and
detergent gargles. Borax, alum, or vitriolic
acid, when mixed in small quantity with hon-
ey, are good to touch the aphthæ with. See
also Thrush.
FEVER, erysipelatous. See Erysipelas.
FEVER, INFLAMMATORY.
Symptoms. Slight shivering, followed by heat,
and quick pulse; nausea, anxiety, restlessness,
white and dry tongue, thirst, and sometimes
pain in the head and back. 
Treatment. If there be fulness of the vessels, 
bleed ; give proper laxatives, and if the stom-
ach be foul, an emetic ; saline febrifuges, with 
small doses of wine of antim. or tartarised an-
timony, and if diaphoresis be wanted, add con-
trayerva. If delirious, blister, and give camph. 
mixture. If colliquative sweats, the decoct. 
of bark, with or without vitriolic acid. If
spasm and catching of the tendons, with low 
pulse, blister the arms and legs, and apply
stimulating plasters to the feet, first bathing
them with warm water. If hiccups, give musk.
While the pulse is high, and inflammatory symp-
toms continue, the antiphlogistic treatment,
cooling febrifuges, acids, and gentle aperients,
are proper. But care must be taken not to
F bring 

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FEV
bring the patient too low, else he will want
strength to carry him through the disease.
Gentle opiates may be ordered at night occa-
sionally in case of restlessness. If the pulse
sink, he should be supported with proper cor-
dials. Costiveness should be avoided, and
even a purging should be checked with cau-
tion, being generally either critical, or at least
salutary. The present and past symptoms
compared, will best direct the treatment in
fevers. Diluting acidulated liquids are prop-
er ; the food may be panada, gruels, pud-
dings, and chicken-broth, with bread, but no
flesh. Food or liquids particularly longed
for should be given. Care should be taken
to avoid too great heat, and impure air.
FEVER, INTERMITTENT. See Ague.
FEVER, MILIARY.
Symptoms. Shivering, heat, lowness of spirits,
oppression about the præcordia, sighing. On
the third or fourth day the eruption (preceded
by a profuse sweat of a peculiar frowy sourish
smell, with tingling or pricking sensation)
appears, chiefly on the neck, breast and back.
It consists of little bladders resembling millet-
seeds, (from which the fever is denominated)
either white or red, according to the colour
of the liquid they contain; and sometimes both
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sorts. The eruption being out, the symptoms
usually abate ; the urine, which before was
pale, becomes higher coloured. The erup-
tions commonly dry in about seven days, and
the skin peels off.
Treatment. Bleed, if necessary, (but this should
be done with great caution) and give saline
febrifuges, accompanied with laxatives and
diaphoretics, as the symptoms may require.
If bilious matter be suspected in the stomach,
an emetic will be proper. If delirium appear,
blister ; if low nervous symptoms, give proper
cordials; if putrid ones and petichæ, the
bark ; if aphthæ, gargles with tinct. of myrrh,
honey of roses, or the like. Acidulated li-
quids, fruit, &c. should be given in this disease,
the air kept pure, and the room not too hot.
FEVER, MILK.
Symptoms. It ariseth about the third or fourth
day aster delivery, with swelling of the breasts,
and pain shooting towards the axillæ ; the
breasts sometimes are hard, hot, and inflamed ;
it generally continues a day or two, then ter-
minates in copious sweats and discharge of
urine.
Treatment. Bleed, if the inflammation be great;
keep the body open, and let the breasts be fre-
quently drawn. In case of hardness or inflam-
mation, emollient fomentations and poultices.
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FEVER, MIXED
A fever wherein the symptoms of inflammatory,
nervous, putrid, and other fevers, are more
or less blended together ; and must therefore
be treated according to their appearances.
FEVER, PUERPERAL.
Symptoms. It begins in two or three days after
delivery, with the usual febrile symptoms.
The pulse is small, contracted, and seldom so
slow as 130 in a minute ; breasts flaccid, with
prostration of strength, pain in the abdomen
with exquisite tenderness of some part of it,
flushed face, short breath, and commonly a
pain in the fore part of the head.
Treatment. In case of costiveness, emollient clys-
ters; and, is necessary, gentle cathartics ; then
mild diaphoretics, as saline draughts with wine
of antim. and proper diluents. If putrid symp-
toms appear, the bark. Emetics (ipecacu-
anha gr. vj. or viij.) exhibited early, and re-
peated twice a day, as long as necessary, have
been attended with remarkable success in the
Hotel Dieu at Paris.
FEVER, putrid or malignant.
Symptoms. A giddiness precedes the attack ;
then burning heat, sudden loss of strength,
heaviness, lowness of spirits, watching, pulse
weak, low, and unequal, pains in various parts 
of

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of the body, anxiety, oppression at the præ-
cordia, nausea, vomiting, noise in the ears,
delirium, coma, catching of the tendons, and
thin crude urine. The tongue is generally
black and dry, though sometimes it continues
clean throughout the disease. Petechiæ; often
appear on the fourth, fifth, and seventh days.
Treatmet. Avoid bleeding ; give small doses
of tartarised antimony, with the camph. mix-
ture, and, if necessary, rhubarb, or other gen-
tle laxative, should be occasionally interposed.
An emetic in the beginning is often efficacious.
Antiseptics, the bark, and cordials, of which
wine given freely is the best, are proper ; as
are also blisters. Opiates should be freely ad-,
ministered, and purgings, unless critical, should
be checked. Mustard poultices to the feet
are proper in case of stupor ; antispasmodics
and the musk mixture in case of convulsive
symptoms, or hiccups. The liquids drunk
should be acidulated ; fruit may be allowed ;
the air in the room should be kept as pure as
possible, and not too warm ; vinegar should
be sprinkled on the floor. Picking the bed-
clothes in this disease is a bad symptom.
FEVER, REMITTENT. (Simple.)
Symptoms. The remittent fever differs from the
continual and intermittent, in that after a cer-
tain number of hours it remits, or abates, but
F 2 does 

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does not go off. It is also called the autum-
nal remitting Fever, the bilious Fever, the
marsh Fever, and the camp Fever. It usually
comes on suddenly, with debility, lowness of
spirits, chilliness, and other febrile symptoms ;
the hands tremble ; countenance pale or yel-
lowish ; skin dry, breathing difficult, and pulse
small and quick ; great nausea succeeds. Vom-
iting of bile, and sometimes discharge of it by
stool; the tongue becomes foul, delirium en-
sues, with moisture on the face, and at length
on the other parts, when the remission follows.
As the disorder increases the remissions are
less, and at length scarcely perceptible ; the
mouth, teeth, and lips, covered with a black
crust ; tongue very dry and stiff, so that the
patient's voice can hardly be heard.
Treatment. An emetic is sometimes proper ;
the body should be opened is necessary; then
prescribe the bark with wine copiously.
FEVER, SCARLET. (SIMPLE.)
Symptoms. The usual precursory symptoms of a
fever, viz. Shivering, heat, &c. then an efflo-
rescence of a scarlet colour appears all over
the skin, but does not rise above the surface ;
with heat, dryness, and itching. In three or
four days it disappears, and the cuticle comes
off in branny scales.
Treatment. 

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Treatment. Cooling saline febrifuges, with gen-
tle laxatives and diaphoretics, is necessary.
FEVER, SCARLET. (MALIGNANT.)
Symptoms. Chilliness, languor, sickness, oppres-
sion, succeeded by heat, nausea, vomiting, sore
throat, quick pulse, and difficult breathing ;
the tonsils inflamed and ulcerated. On the
third day the efflorescence appears.
Treatment. As in malignant angina,
FEVER, SLOW OR NERVOUS.
Symptoms. Shiverings, lassitude, weariness, de-
bility, sighing, pale desponding looks, great
anxiety, depression of spirits, pain and giddi-
ness of the head, white tongue (sometimes red)
with a yellow or brownish list running along
the middle of it, but no thirst ; nausea, diffi-
culty of breathing, pulse weak, quick, and un-
equal ; urine limpid and pale ; pain and cold-
ness in the back part of the head ; drowsiness.
These symptoms are at first so slight as to be
scarcely noticed, but increase gradually ; they
are all worse towards night; if a delirium,
not violent, but a muttering to themselves ;
sometimes miliary eruptions and sweats ap-
pear, but seldom afford relief.
Treatment. Gentle cordial diaphoretics, with
wine ; previous to which, an emetic, is noth-
ing forbid. Costiveness should be removed by
gentle 

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gentle laxatives; bleeding should be- resrained
from, unless urgent symptoms indicate ; blis-
ters ; is an intermission appear, the bark ; is
convulsions, musk with castor or other anti-
spasmodics, and opium ; is aphth[ae], gargles,
with tinct. of myrrh, honey, decoct, of bark,
alum, or the like ; and in case of much
phlegm, oxymel os squills or ipecac, to bring
it up. Care should be taken after the fever,
to restore the patient by proper nutritious di-
et, chalybeate waters, bark, &c.
FEVER, WORM. See Worms.
FIG, THE FRUIT.
Aperient, obtunding.
FLOODING. See Menses and Abortion.
FLUOR ALBUS.
Symptoms. A flux of thin matter from the va-
gina, os a transparent or white colour, some-
times tinctured with yellow or green ; some-
times it is sharp and corroding, with a fetid
smell, especially when of long continuance.
Treatment. An emetic will generally be proper
at first ; then give olibanum, bals. of capivi,
amber, bark, or the like. In phlegmatic con-
stitutions chalybeates, alum, or vitriolated
zinc ; the extract of hemlock is often of great
use ; strengthening plasters may be applied to
the back and loins, astringent injections used,
and 

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FLU FRA
and a light, but strengthening and nutritive
diet, with little exercise. Crabs, eyes, given
to ℥ss. in a day have been very successful, par-
ticularly where the discharge was acrimonious.
FLUX, BLOODY. See Dysentery.
FOX-GLOVE.
Diuretic ; gr. i. to iij. Also in infusion, ʒij. to
℔j. of water; ℥ss. to ℥iss. It should be
given twice a day, and desisted from as soon
as the urine begins to slow, the pulse becomes
slow, or nausea commences, which usually
happens when ʒss- of the powder, or ℔ss of
the infusion has been taken. In large doses it
proves strongly emetic and purgative, and ex-
hibits deleterious effects. Its diuretic prop-
erties are less certain if given in nauseating
doses. The leaf should be gathered about the
time that the blossoms are coming forth, and
the leaf-stalk and mid-rib should be rejected,
FRACTURES.
Treatment. Replace the ends or pieces of the
bone so as to be in their natural situation ;
and keep them in that posture by proper com-
presses, splints, bandages, &c. but not too
tight; and vinegar may be poured on them.
Is there be great inflammation or tumour,
bleed, and use other proper methods to re-
move them before you attempt reduction. If
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FRA FUR
there be loose fragments or splinters which
hinder the extension and reduction, or cause
irritation, remove them by proper incisions, or
otherwise. The limb, or part, must be kept
still; proper diet must be ordered ; the callus
will be formed in a month or two, according
to the bone injured, &c. ; the joint should be
cautiously moved at times to prevent stiffness;
the medical treatment should be regulated ac-
cording to the symptoms that arise. If the
fracture be of a desperate kind, amputation
is necessary ; but it should be deferred, if pos-
sible, till the first inflammation has subsided.
FRANKINCENSE.
Stimulant, tonic. PLASTER OF. The same.
FUROR UTERINUS.
Symptoms. Melancholy, taciturnity, redness of
the face, lascivious looks, irregular hysteric
symptoms, as crying, laughing, &c. and at
length, an immoderate desire of coition, ac-
companied with libidinous speeches and ges-
tures. It is peculiar to the female sex, and
proceeds from an abundance of acrimony of
the fluids secreted in the pudenda.
Treatment. Bleeding, and cooling purges ; ni-
tre ; or refrigerant, diuretic, and diluting li-
quids ; anodynes and thin diet. Tartaric J.
antimony in small doses, with camphor, and
extract

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GAL GAN
extract of henbane, has been employed with
success.
GALBANUM.
Nervous, antispasmodic ; gr. v. to ℈j. also ex-
ternally in plasters. COMPOUND PILL OF.
NERVOUS, emmenagogue; ℈ss. to ʒss. Tinc-
ture of. ʒj. to ʒij.
GALLS.
Tonic, astringent; gr. ij. to vj. or more. Also
outwardly in liniments for the piles, &c.
GAMBOGE.
Emetic, cathartic ; gr. ij. to viij. it has been
given to ℈j.
GANGRENE.
Symptoms. In some cases, when a part is vio-
lently inflamed, the inflammation and pain
suddenly disappear; the integuments turn pale,
blue, livid, or blackish; the skin becomes flac-
cid and pitting, with bladders filled with yel-
low or reddish ichor ; and this is termed
Gangrene.
Treatment. Scarify the parts, and foment them
with the decoction for fomentation and cam-
phorated spirit; apply poultices of oatmeal
and beer ; and give cordial medicines, with
plenty of bark. In gangrene of the toes, par-
ticularly in old people, opium has been sound
peculiarly serviceable.
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GAR GON
GARLICK.
Expectorant, diuretic, emmenagogue, sudorific,
a chive or two at a dose, or in infusion.
GENTIAN, ROOT.
Tonic, stomachic ; ʒss to ʒj Compound IN-
FUSION OF. ℥iss. to ℥iij. COMPOUND TINC-
TURE OF. ʒj- to ʒiij- Extract of. ℈j.
to ℈ij.
GINGER, ROOT.
Cordial, aromatic, carminative; gr. v. also in
infusion. TINCTURE OF. gt. x. to lx.
GINSENG, ROOT.
Tonic, obtunding, antispasmodic; ʒj. or more,
in decoction.
GLEET.
See Venereal Disease ; but is it do not proceed
from that cause, the same treatment will be
proper, viz. Corroborants, as bark, olibanum,
alum, vitriolic acid, bals. of capivi, &c. and .
necessary, astringent injections and the cold|
bath. 
GONORRHŒA, SIMPLE. See Gleet.
GONORRHŒA, SPURIOUS.
Symptoms. A purulent discharge from minute
exulcerations round the corona glandis, pro-
duced by the sebaceous fluid secreted by the
glandulæ odoriseræ becoming acrimonious. It
has been mistaken for virulent gonorrhœa, 
Treatment.

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GON GOU
Treatment. Nothing is necessary but keeping
the part clean by washing it with warm milk
and water, or warm water alone.
GONORRHŒA, virulent. See Venereal
Disease.
GOUT.
Symptoms. An acute pain in the joints, partic-
ularly of the feet. It is called regular when
it is seated in the extremities, returns at stated
periods, and gradually declines. Irregular,
When the fits are uncertain and frequent, when
the symptoms vary, and when the disease at-
tacks the stomach, head, or other internal
parts. It chiefly affects the membranes, ten-
dons, and ligaments : the pain is like that of
a dislocated bone, with a sensation as if warm
water were poured on the part, succeeded by
chilliness and slight fever : a breathing sweat
comes on at the end of the fit, and the part
swells ; the fit returns at intervals till the
gouty matter is spent; the longer the inter-
vals, the more severe the fit; but the symp-
toms are too well known, to need further
enumeration in a work of this nature.
Treatment. Cordials are best during the fit;
the body should not be costive; opiates may
be occasionally given; the part should be wrapt
in flannel, and relaxing or other topical appli-
cations
G

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GRA HÆM
cations, as the case may require ; a temperate
diet, exercise, friction, and the Bath waters ;
same have ventured to blister the part with
success.
GRAVEL. See Stone.
GUAIACUM, gum, wood, and bark.
Sudorisic, alterative, antirheumatic, antivenereal,
Gum in powder, ℈j. to ʒj. Wood and Bark
in decoction. Tincture of. ʒj. to ʒiij.
GUTTA SERENA.
Symptoms. A blindness, though the eyes seem
perfectly unaffected, the cause being in the re-
tina, or optic nerve.
Treatment. Blisters to the head, back, or be-
hind the ears ; bleeding, if nothing forbid ;
valerian, castor, assafœtida, cinnabar, bark, vol-
atile salts, millepedes, rosemary, or other ner-
vous and attenuant remedies. Calomel, or
chalybeates, is obstruction be the cause; emet-
ics and cathartics discretionally; sternutato-
ries should also be used. Electricity has
sometimes succeeded.
HAEMORRHAGE, EXTERNAL.
Apply compound tincture of benjamin, cobweb,
dry lint, flour, agaric, alum, or the vitriolic
styptics ; is an artery be injured, take it up,
or apply the sponge tent.
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HÆMORRHAGE, INTERNAL. See Blood.
HÆMORRHOIDS. See Piles.
HARTSHORN, BURNT.
Astringent, absorbent; ℈j. to ʒj. DECOCTION
OF. As common drink. OIL OF. This,
when rectisied, is called animal oil, which see.
SALT OF. As prepared Ammonia. SHAV-
INGS. In jelly, corroborant, nutritive. VOL-
ATILE LIQUOR OF. As Water of Ammonia.
HEAD-ACHE.
Treatment. If occasioned by plethora, use the
pediluvium, bleed or cup, and purge : is by
viscid blood, give attenuants also : is by a foul
stomach, an emetic : is by costiveness, purges :
if it be nervous, castor, valerian, bark, com-
pound tinct. of lavender, comp. spirit of am-
monia, assafœtida, or electricity, blister the
back, and bathe the temples, forehead, &c.
with æther, or water of ammon. with a little
roch alum in it : if a weak stomach, give bit-
ters or other stomachics. Head-aches may
arise from various other causes, which, when
known, will indicate proper remedies. In
periodical head-aches arsenic has been sound
very efficacious.
HEART-BURN.
The common heart-burn, proceeding from acid-
ity irritating the upper orifice of the stomach,
is 

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HEL HEM
is removed for the time by magnesia, chalk,
lozenges of chalk, and alkalis fixed or volatile;
but to cure it stomachics must be given. 
Heart-burn may be occasioned by corroding hu-
mours of other kinds, and will not therefore
be eased by alkalis. Emetics, with plenty of
camomile tea or other liquid, to cleanse the
stomach, are here proper ; cathartics may also
be useful, and these may be followed by sto-
machics : but water with gum arabic dissolved
in it will give occasional relief. Worms will
also sometimes occasion this complaint; ver-
mifuges are then proper.
HELLEBORE, BLACK, ROOT.
Deobstruent, attenuant, alterative ; gr. v. to ℈ss.
from gr. xv. to ʒss. strongly purgative. EX-
TRACT OF. ℈ss. to ℈j TINCTURE OF. ʒj-
-WHITE, ROOT.
Violently emetic and cathartic, gr. v. to ℈ss. also
sternutatory. DECOCTION OF. Externally in,
cutaneous diseases. OINTMENT OF. The
same.
HEMICRANIA. See Head-ache.
HEMIPLEGIA. See Palsy.
HEMLOCK.
In fomentations discutient and resolvent. IN-
SPISSATED JUICE OF. Alterative, diuretic,
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HEP HIC
sedative ; in large doses narcotic ; gr. ij. may
be increased gradually to ʒiij. or iv. a day.
HEPATITIS. See Liver.
HERB-MASTIC, SYRIAN.
Stimulant, sternutatory.
HERNIA, OR RUPTURE.
Treatment. Return the intestine, is practicable,
and confine it with a proper truss. Costive-
ness must be avoided, as must likewise violent
exercise, drunkenness, &c.
If it be strangulated, cold applications to the
part, as powdered ice, &c. are adviseable.
Clysters of tobacco smoke have facilitated the
reduction : so has keeping the patient in a
warm bath till fainting came on. If nothing
succeed, the operation must be performed.
Be cautious of bleeding, though apparent
symptoms of inflammation with a full pulse
seem to require it: these will soon go off
when the intestine is reduced.
HERNIA HUMORALIS. See Testicles.
HICCOUGH, OR HICCUP
The common hiccup is usually removed by
drinking a draught of any weak liquid, by
holding the breath, and sometimes by swal-
lowing dry bread.
For the hiccup or singultus, which comes on in
the 
G 2

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HIP HYD
the last stages of fever, &c. give the musk
mixture, or musk in substance, in large doses ;
volatile salt, castor, or the like ; to which,
opium may be discretionally added. When
a primary disease, sternutatories and emetics
have been useful: so has the plaster of lada-
num applied to the pit of the stomach.
HIP, FRUIT.
Cooling. CONSERVE OF. At pleasure.
HOG's LARD, OINTMENT OF.
Softening, healing.
HONEY.
Pectoral, detergent, aperient. ACETATED. An-
tiseptic, cooling, detergent.
HOOPING COUGH. See Cough.
HOREHOUND, WHITE.
Tonic, aperient ; ʒss to ʒj.
HORSE RADISH, ROOT.
Stimulant, diuretic, deobstruent, ad libitum. In-
fused in water, wine, or spirit, ℥jss. to ℥iij.
SPIRIT OF. ʒss to ʒj.
HYDROCELE. }
HYDROCEPHALUS.} See Dropsy
HYDROPHOBIA.
It is of more consequence here to describe the
symptoms in the dog than those of the patient. 
We

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HYD
We may know the dog to be mad by his dull,
heavy look; endeavouring to hide himself;
seldom or never barking ; being angry and
snarling at strangers, but fawning on his own-
er; refusing all food, drooping, hanging down
his ears and tail, and often lying down as if
going to sleep. This is the first stage. He
next begins to breathe quick and heavy, shoots-
out his tongue, slavers, and froths at the
mouth ; looks half asleep ; flies suddenly at
by-standers; and runs forward in a curve line.
At length he knows not his owner, his eyes
become thick and dim, and water runs from
them ; his tongue is of a red colour; he
grows weak and faint; often falls down, then
rises, and attempts to fly at something; and
grows mad and furious. The nearer to this
state, the more dangerous the bite.
If the state of the dog cannot be obtained, he
may be known to have been mad, or the dis-
order may be known to be this by the follow-
ing effects, which will come on sooner or la-
ter. The bitten part begins to be painful,
wandering pains come on gradually, with
heaviness and uneasiness ; the patient has dis-
turbed sleep, frightful dreams, startings, spasms,
sighing, anxiety, and loves solitude; pains
shoot from the bitten part up to the throat,
with straitness, sensation of choaking, and hor-
ror 

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HYP
ror or dread at sight of water or other liquids,
which is a sufficient characteristic of the dis-
ease.
Treatment. Cut out the bitten part immediate-
ly, which is the only certain cure : cupping-
glasses should then be applied; cauterize and
wash it daily with salt water, or rub in the
stronger ointment of quicksilver, keeping it
open with escarotics ; bleed, if the vessels be
full; vomit with vitriolated quicksilver : give
musk gr. xvi. cinnabar ʒss. (to which camphor
and opium may be added) at night, and a
purge the next morning ; bathe in the sea, or
cold bath, and give a sudorific ; repeat these
for a week daily, and three or four times at
the next full arid change of the moon. The
ointment of quicksilver applied externally, and
vitriolated quicksilver given inwardly, so as to
raise a salivation for several weeks, are said to
be efficacious. In Germany the root of dead-
ly nightshade has been given, from gr. iij. to
vj. at a dose, and is reported to have proved
infallible in the first stages. The Ormskirk
medicine has failed in a variety of cases, and
has indeed been sound to be of no efficacy.
HYPOCHONDRIASIS.
Symptoms are generally low-spiritedness, (the dis-
order being chiefly in the imagination) heavi-
ness, oppression, and despondency; yet at times
uncommon 

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HYS
uncommon cheerfulness and flow of spirits ;
timidity, anxiety, sear, dread of dying, short
cough, dissicult breath, flatulency, pale urine,.
pains in the head, odd fancies, spasms.
Treatment. Bark, and other tonics ; nervous
antispasmodics, as castor, valerian, assafœtida,
&c. attenuants, as volatile salts and spirits ;
bitters and chalybeates is no fever ; emetics,
aperients, opiates, issues, and blisters, discre-
tionally ; the cold bath and chalybeate wa-
ters, food light and easy of digestion, cheerful
company, and gentle exercise.
HYSSOP, HEDGE.
Violently emetic and purgative, diuretic, anthel-
mintic ; ℈ss. to ʒss. Also in infusion.
HYSTERIA.
Symptoms. In women similar to those of hypo-
chondriasis in men, but usually more violent,
and attended with convulsive fits ; which gen-
erally come on with oppression at the breast,
difficult breathing, a sense of something rising
in the throat, which seems to threaten suffo-
cation ; convulsive motions ; frothing at the
mouth ; laughing, and sometimes crying.
May be known from a mere syncope by the
pulse and breathing continuing, whereas in a
syncope they are not perceptible ; it also comes
on gradually, but a syncope more suddenly ;
in 

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HYS JAU 
in that, the sit is of short continuance, in this,
usually much longer ; with a colour in the
face, which is not the case in a syncope.
Treatment of the disorder itself, as-in the hypo-
chondriasis. In the fit fetid volatiles, sin-
ged feathers, &c. may be applied to the nos-
trils, and cold water and fetid volatiles giv-
en. The feet and legs may be placed in
warm water ; the pure cold air should be free-
ly admitted ; cold water may be sprinkled on
the face and breast ; and if a plethora be in-
dicated, bleed ; otherwise cautiously avoid it.
In this disease, particular attention should be
paid to the state of the menses, &c.
This disease appears often under a variety of
forms ; for a more particular account than
can here be given, Sydenham, and other au-
thors, may be consulted,
HYSTERITIS, OR INFLAMMATION OF THE
WOMB. See Womb.
JALAP, ROOT.
Cathartic ; gr. xv. to ʒss. or more. Extract
of. gr. vj. to xij. TINCTURE. ʒj, to ʒij-
JAUNDICE.
Symptoms. Yellowness of the whole skin, but
chiefly the whites of the eyes ; the urine also
yellow ; lassitude, inactivity, anxiety, sickness,
oppression and difficult breathing ; pain at the
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ILI INF
stomach ; bitter taste in the mouth ; some-
times attended with purging, at others costive-
ness ; stools generally like blue clay, but some-
times of a dark earthy, and at others of a
deep yellow colour.
Treatment. If the vessels be very full, bleed ;
then vomit, purge, and give medicines with
soap ; to which may occasionally be added,
rhubarb, aloes, chalybeates or squills. Saline
draughts if fever; opiates in case of pain ;
gentle emetics may be occasionally repeated,
and the body should be kept open. Chalybe-
ate waters, or water or cyder with a red hot
iron quenched in it, may be used as common
drink; gentle exercise, air, and cheerful com-
pany.
ILIAC PASSION.
Symptoms. Acute pains in the bowels, oppres-
sion at the stomach, tension of the belly, vom-
iting of bile, and sometimes of fæces, great
thirst and heat.
Treatment as in the inflammatory Colic, of which
this is only a more violent kind.
INCRASSANTS.
Kino, ginseng, sarcocolla, sarsaparilla, and fari-
naceous and mucilaginous substances.
INDIAN PINK. See Pink, Indian.
INFLAMMATION, superficial. See
Phlegmon. 
IN- 

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INF ISS
INFLAMMATION OF THE BOWELS.
See Colic and Iliac Passion.
INFLAMMATION OF OTHER PARTS.
See the respective Parts.
IPECACUANHA.
Emetic; gr. vj. to ʒss. Antispasmodic ; gr. ss.
to iij. and with opium, sudorific. Also in
dysenteries. COMPOUND POWDER of. Su-
dorific ; gr. v. to ℈j. Wine of. ℥ss. to
℥jss
IRON.
Tonic, astringent, deobstruent; ℈ss. to ʒss.
AMMONIACAL. gr. ij. to x. TINCTURE OF.
gt. x. to xl. MURIATED TINCTURE OF. gt.
x. to xl. RUST OF. gr. v. to ʒss TAR-
TARISED. gr. V. to ʒss VlTRIOLATED. gr.
j. to x. or more. WINE OF. ʒj. to ℥ss.
ISINGLASS.
Corroborant, nutritive, in jellies.
ISSUES, to cut.
Pinch up the skin and fat with the thumb and
forefinger, and divide them with a lancet so 
as to admit a pea ; or you may apply a small
blister or caustic on the part. The pease with
which it is afterwards dressed may be smeared
with ointment of yellow resin, or of canthar-
ides, is necessary; and dipped in blue vitriol
water if fungus appear. The pea may be se-
cured 

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ITC JUN
cured with the litharge plaster with resin ; is
the issue inflame, dress with ointment of wax,
or bleed or purge.
ITCH.
Symptoms. An eruption in the sorm of small
pimples or pustules, chiefly about the joints,
wrists, hams, the bend of the arms, the waist,
and between the fingers ; the pimples gene-
rally hard at first, afterwards watery, especial-
ly if rubbed or otherwise inflamed : also itch-
ing, which is greatest when warm, or in bed.
It is infectious.
Treatment. Anoint with sulphur and lard, oint-
ment of quicksilver, or white calx of quick-
silver and pomatum ; hellebore, or sal am-
moniac, may occasionally be added ; or wash
with a weak solution of muriated quicksilver,
a decoction of white hellebore root, or strong
compound water of acetated litharge, with
salt. A quicksilver girdle may be worn, but
sulphur is the most safe and certain. Flowers
of sulph. may be given inwardly ; or vitriolic
1 acid, which has been said to have performed
a cure alone. Bleed and purge first in case
of inflammation or costiveness.
JUNIPER, BERRIES, AND TOPS.
Carminative, diuretic, in decoction or infusion ;
at pleasure. COMPOUND SPIRIT OF. ʒj. to
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KAL KID
℥ss. Essential oil of the berries.
Carminative, stomachic ; gt. j. to ij. Stimu-
lating, diuretic, emmenagogue ; gt. vj. to x.
KALI, PREPARED.
Antacid, diuretic ; gr. iij. or iv. to xv. or xx.
ACETATED. Diuretic, cathartic ; ℈ss. to
ʒij. or more. PURE. This is the strong
common caustic. SULPHURATED. The so-
lution chiefly as a wash in cutaneous diseases.
TARTARISATED. Laxative; ℈j.to ʒij Ca-
thartic ; ʒij. to ℥j. VITRIOLATED. Ape-
rient; ℈j. to ℈ij. Cathartic; ʒij. to ʒv.
WATER OF. As the prepared, in a quadru-
ple dose. WATER OF PURE KALI. An-
tacid, diuretic, lithontriptic ; gt, v. to ʒj.
KIBES. See Chilblains.
KIDNEYS, INFLAMMATION OF.
Symptoms. Burning pain in the kidney, or kid-
neys ; vomiting ; eructations ; numbness of
the thigh ; pain in the groin, ilium, and testi-
cle of the same side ; frequent, but small dis-
charges of urine, which is red and high-col-
oured, yet limpid and watery in the height of
the disease.
Treatment. Bleed ; open the body with cathar-
tics and clysters; give emollient diuretics,
with plenty of milk of almonds, or the like,
sor common drink ; warm bathing; and opi-
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KIN LEM
If the pain abate, leaving behind a sense of weight,
with frequent shiverings, followed by heat, and
whitish turbid urine, it denotes suppuration.
In this case give bals. of capiv. with nitre, and
rhubarb, or other balsamic diuretics. The
pain suddenly remitting, with cold sweats, in-
termittent pulse, hiccup, fetid urine, and sup-
pression of that discharge, are signs of mortifi-
cation.
KING'S EVIL. See Scrophula.
KINO, GUM.
Tonic, obtunding ; ℈ss. to ʒss.
LABOUR. See Child-birth.
LADANUM.
Tonic, stimulant, externally. PLASTER OF.
Stomachic.
LADY's-SMOCK, FLOWERS.
Antispasmodic ; ℈j. to ʒj.
LAVENDER, FLOWERS.
Cephalic; nervous; ℈j. to ʒj. COMPOUND
SPIRIT OF. gt. x. to c. ESSENTIAL OIL OF.
gt. j. to v. Also externally stimulating.
SPIRIT OF. ʒss. to ʒj.
LEAD, RED AND WHITE.
Externally desiccative, repellent, sedative.
LEMON, JUICE AND PEEL.
Juice, Cooling, antiseptic, opening ; ʒj. to ℥ss.
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LEO LIQ
Peel, Stomachic; ℈ss. to ʒss. In infusion
℥j. to iij. 
INSPISSATED JUICE OF. As the juice m a
smaller dose.
LEOPARD's-BANE, GERMAN.
Stimulant; ʒj. to ʒss. in infusion, in the course
of the day.
LETHARGY.
This may be considered only as a less degree of
Apoplexy, and should be treated accordingly.
The chief symptoms are, sleep, or great drow-
siness.
LIENTERY.
In this disease the aliment is discharged with but
little alteration, and the body wastes. The
Treatment as in the Cœliac Passion.
LIME, WATER OF.
Antacid, astringent; ℥iv. to ℔j. In clysters,
vermifuge. It has also been reputed lithon-
triptic, and good in scrophula. WITH PURE
KALI. The milder common caustic
LINSEED.
Pectoral, diuretic; in infusion and mucilage,
from ʒij to ℥ss. The powder is used in cat-
aplasms. Oil of. ℥ss.
LIQUORICE, ROOT.
Obtunding. EXTRACT OF. At pleasure.
TROCHES OF. The same. 
LI- 

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LIT LIV
LITHARGE.
Astringent, sedative in external applications.
ACETATED, CERATE OF. The same. WA-
TER OF. ʒij. of this with distilled water
℔ij. proof spirit ʒij make the COMPOUND
WATER OF ACETATED L. commonly called
Goulard's Vegeto-mineral Water. Its virtues
the same. Plaster of. Desiccative. PL.
OF, COMPOUND. Digestive. WITH QUICK-
SILVER. Discutient. WITH RESIN. Ad-
hesive.
LITHONTRIPTICS.
Antacid. Water of pure kali, kali, limewater,
soap. Tonic. Muriatic, vitriolic, and aerial
acids, mephitic alkaline water, uva ursi, wild
carrot.
LIVER inflamed.
Symptoms. Obtuse pain in the part, shooting up
towards the throat and shoulder, but never
great, unless the membranes affected; hic-
cup ; vomiting ; dry cough ; lassitude ; fe-
ver ; tension of the hypochondrium ; eyes,
skin, and urine, sometimes yellow ; coftive-
ness ; difficulty of breathing. The symp-
toms are aggravated by lying on the left
side.
Treatment. Bleed as largely as the pulse will
bear ; blister the part; purge; give cooling
febrifuges 
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febrifuges and diuretics ; direct cooling emol-
lient clysters, somentations, and poultices,
and pediluvia.
If a tumour appear, forward and open it, is
nothing forbid, and give the bark.
In the East-Indies they cure this disease by
salivation, bleeding and purging being pre-
mised.
If a Schirrus succeed, soap, rhubarb, mercuri-
als, and chalybeates will be proper.
LOCHIA. See Child-birth.
LOCKED JAW.
Symptoms. A rigid contraction of the muscles
which raise the lower jaw, whence the jaws
continue violently closed, with great pain.
Treatment. The best remedy is large and re-
peated doses of opium. Blisters, purges,
clysters, and antispasmodics, may also be pre-
scribed.
LOGWOOD.
Tonic, astringent; ℥ij. to ℥iv. of the decoftion.
Extract of. ℈ss. to ʒj.
LUES VENEREA. See Venereal Disease.
LUMBAGO.
A kind of rheumatism in the loins, or small of
the back, without any nephritic symptoms.
Antirheumatic remedies prove most effica-
cious. See Rheumatism. Strengthening or
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stimulating plasters, or even blisters to the
part, are also useful: or cupping, and the
warm bath.
LUXATIONS.
Treatment. Place the limb or part, so that the
muscles may be relaxed, and the head of the
bone free from obstacles ; then reduce the
bone into its natural situation, and apply
proper bandages, not too tight, to keep it so,
till the ligaments have recovered their tone.
If there be inflammation, bleed, give laxa-
tives and cooling remedies, foment and poul-
tice. Rest and proper diet should be ad-
vised.
MACE.
Aromatic, stimulant; ℈ss. to ʒss. Oil of.
See Nutmeg, expressed oil of.
MADDER, ROOT.
Aperient, diuretic, emmenagogue, antiseptic ;
ʒss. to ʒj.
MADNESS.
The symptoms are too well known to need enu-
meration. Emetics, cathartics, blisters, oc-
casional bleeding, antispasmodics, opiates,
and low diet. These may be varied ac-
cording to the nature of the complaint (that
is, whether it be Melancholy or the contrary)
and to the symptoms that arise in either. 
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Dr. Simmons, who has made trial of a great
variety of remedies at St. Luke's Hospital, has
often seen very remarkable good effects,
and even cures persormed, by large doses
of camphor, in maniacal cases; ℈j. every
hour or two.
MAGNESIA.
Antacid, opening ; ℈j. to ʒij. BURNT.
This is equally mild, though at least doubly
as powerful as an antacid : it is also prefer-
able in many cases, because no fixed air will
be disengaged from it in the stomach. TRO-
CHES OF. Chiefly for the heartburn. VIT-
RIOLATED. Cathartic; ℥ss. to ℥iss.
MALLOW, LEAVES AND FLOWERS.
Obtunding, emollient.
MANNA.
Aperient, obtunding ; gj. to giij.
MARJORAM, SWEET and WILD.
Stimulant ; ℈j. to ʒss. Also sternutatory.
ESSENTIAL OIL OF. gt. ij. to iv.
MARSHMALLOW, ROOT AND LEAF.
Obtunding, emollient.
MASTIC.
Tonic, antiseptic ; ℈j. to ʒss.
MEADOW-SAFFRON, FRESH ROOT.
Strongly cathartic, diuretic ; in substance small
doses 

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doses produce alarming effects, but of the
OXYMEL ℥ij. or iij. may be given in a day.
Of this the common dose is from 3ss. to 3iss.
at first.
MEASLES.
Symptoms. Chilliness, shivering, pain in the head,
fever, sickness, and sometimes vomiting; cough,
heaviness of the eyes, with swelling, inflamma-
tion, and discharge of watery humour from
them, and also srom the nostrils. The third
or fourth day, an eruption like flea-bites ap-
pears in the face, neck, and breast, and soon
aster in the body and limbs ; it rises above the
skin, but does not suppurate. The fever and
other symptoms do not, as in the Small-Pox,
&c. abate on the appearance of the eruption,
which continues about three days, then dries
away, the skin peeling off; but the other symp-
toms remain and even increase, especially the
cough, which is also attended in general with
difficulty of breathing, and oppression at the
breast.
Treatment. Cooling and aperient febrifuges ;
gentle diaphoretics, is necessary ; bleeding, is
nothing forbid ; pectorals for the cough ; opi-
ates occasionally at night; blisters, if the cough
be obstinate: and bathing the feet in warm
water. Gentle physic should be given as soon
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MEC MEN
It has been proposed to inoculate the Measles;
but Dr. Simmons, in his dissertation de Rube-
ola, observes, that the different attempts in
this way, hitherto have proved ineffectual;
Dr. Home's experiments, as related in his
Medical Facts, not having been sound to an-
swer when repeated by others.
MECONIUM, RETENTION OF, IN INFANTS;
(called also Colica Meconialis.)
Treatment. Give magnesia or syr. of roses, cas-
tor oil, or oil of almonds, with oil of aniseed,
or other oil in case of wind, and, if necessary,
emollient clysters. If purging, give chalk, or
other absorbents, &c. If vomiting, syr. of
white poppy, given with caution in small doses.
MENSES, IMMODERATE FLUX OF.
Treatment. Tonics, as infusion of roses, alum,
bark, amber, &c. with opiates. In desperate
cases, small doses of blue vitriol, or acetated
cerusse, but with great caution. Astringent
fomentations to the part, as vinegar, alum, or
the like ; rest, and proper mild diet. Some-
times chalybeates are proper ; and, is necessa-
ry, laxatives.
MENSES OBSTRUCTED.
Treatment. In phlegmatic habits, purge with
aloetics, and give chalybeates. In plethoric
habits, bleed, avoid chalybeates, and give the
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compound powder of myrrh, castor, or the
like, with tinct. of black hellebore, aloes, oil
or extract of savine, pennyroyal, and the like.
Bathing the feet, fomenting the belly, and
fitting over the steams of hot water, are good
in both habits ; attenuants in case of viscid
blood; emetics are often efficacious, as are
sometimes small doses of mercurials; exercise,
and, is the appetite be vitiated, proper sto-
machics. Of late, electricity has been sound
efficacious in cases of this sort, by drawing
sparks, and sending gentle shocks through the
pelvis. 
MEZEREON, BARK OF THE ROOT.
Antivenereal, alterative ; from gr. j. upwards.
In decoction, dofe ʒij. to iv. Chiefly in ve-
nereal pains of the bones, and affections of the
skin. Externally the bark of mezereon raises
blisters.
MILLEPEDES.
Diuretic, attenuant, deobstruent ; gr. v. to
ʒss.
MINT.
Tonic, antiemetic. ESSENTIAL OIL of. gt. j.
to iij. or more. SPIRIT of. ʒj. to ℥ss.
WATER OF. ℥j. to ℥ij.
MISCARRIAGE. See Abortion.
MIXTURE, 

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MIXTURE, CAMPHORATED.
Diaphoretic, antispasmodic, diuretic; ℥ss. to ℥iij,
- CHALK.
Antacid, and in diarrhœa; to ℔j. or ij. in a day.
- MUSK.
Stimulant, antispasmodic; ℥j. to ℥iij. or more.
MONKSHOOD. See Wolfsbane, blue.
MORTIFICATION. See Sphacelus.
MULBERRY, THE FRUIT.
Cooling, antiseptic.
MUMPS. See Angina maxillaris.
MUSK.
Stimulant, antispasmodic ; gr. vj. to ʒss.
MUSTARD, seed.
Stimulant. The powder mixed with crumb
of bread and vinegar, now called MUSTARD
POULTICE, formerly a sinapism, is used ex-
ternally as a stimulus. OIL OF. This has
been recommended in rheumatism, but it ap-
pears to be perfectly bland.
MYRRH.
Tonic, deobstruent, antispasmodic ; gr. v. to ʒss.
In phthisis to 3iij. or iv. in a day.  TINC-
TURE OF. gt. xv. to lx. Externally, de-
tersive. COMPOUND POWDER OF. Emmen-
agogue; ℈j. to ʒj.
NATRON, 

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NATRON, PREPARED.
Antacid, deobstruent in scrophula ℈j. to ℈ij.
TARTARISED. Cathartic; ℥ss. to ℥iss. VIT-
RIOLATED. The same.
NEPHRITICS.
Opiates, emollients, diuretics.
NEPHRITIS. See Kidneys.
NERVOUS COMPLAINTS. See Hypo-
chondriac and Hysteric Diseases.
The class of medicines called Nervous, with cor-
roborants, air, and proper regimen, are most
useful in these cases.
NERVOUS FEVER. See Fever.
NERVOUS MEDICINES.
Fetid spirit of ammonia, pills of gum, affafœtida,
galbanum, castor, opoponax, sagepanum, rec-
tified oil and pure salt of amber, vitriolic æther,
valerian, rue, pennyroyal, balsam of Peru, cha-
lybeates, cephalics, tonics.
NETTLE, COMMON.
Aperient. Externally as a rubefacient.
NIGHTSHADE, DEADLY,
LEAF AND ROOT.
Narcotic, sudorific, aperient, diuretic, resolutive ;
gr. ij. to vj. It is recommended against hy-
drophobia.
 - WOODY, STALKS.
Sudorific, aperient, diuretic.
NIP
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NIPPLES, SORE.
Treatment. Apply oil of wax, cream, mucilage
of gum arabic, ointment of wax, suet, or the
like. If they be moist, ointment of wax, with
some drying powder, as starch, French bole, &c.
NITRE, PURIFIED.
Cooling, febrifuge, diuretic; gr. ℈ss. to ʒj.
TROCHES OF. These have been employed
with success in some cases of difficult deglu-
tition.
NUTMEG,
ESSENTIAL OIL OF, AND EXPRESSED OIL OF.
Stimulant, aromatic ; gr. j. to vj. SPIRIT OF.
ʒss. to ʒij.
OAK, BARK.
Tonic, astringent; ℈j. to ʒj.
OIL, ANIMAL.
Anodyne, antispasmodic ; gt. x. to xxx.
OIL, SULPHURATED.
Stimulant, pectoral; gt. x. to xl. Externally
detersive.
OISTER, THE SHELL.
Absorbent; ℈j. to ʒj.
OILS, ESSENTIAL.
The virtues of the plants they are drawn from,
in doses of gt. j. to iij. on sugar, or otherwise.
OLIBANUM.
Corroborant; gr. y. to ℈j.
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OLIVE, OIL.
As oil of almonds.
OPIUM.
Anodyne, antispasmodic, &c. gr. ¼ to ij. PILL
OF. gr. jss. to x. TINCTURE OF. gt. x. to
XXV. CAMPHORATED. ʒss. to ʒij.
OPOPONAX.
Nervous, stimulant, aperient; gr. v. to ℈j. to
ʒj. purgative.
ORANGE, SEVILLE,
LEAF AND FLOWER, AND JUICE AND RIND of
THE FRUIT.
Leaf, antispasmodic ; ʒss. Flower. The same.
Juice and rind. As those of lemon, but
weaker. CONSERVE OF THE RIND. ℈iji
TINCTURE OF. ℈j. to ʒij.
ORRIS, ROOT.
Tonic ; ℈j. to ℈ij. of the fresh juice, ℈iij.
or iv. prove cathartic.
PALPITATION of THE HEART.
Treatment. In proper constitutions bleed re-
peatedly ; but where the disorder proceeds
from relaxation, the bark and corroborants.
Nervous medicines, musk, volatile salts, &c.
are good ; as are also blisters. In bilious
Iiabits it is srequently removed by ℥ss. of pure
lemon-juice.
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PALSY, or PARALYSIS.
Symptoms. A loss or diminution of the motion
or feeling, or both, of some part or parts of
the body. If it happen to all the parts below
the head, it is called Paraplegia ; if to one
side of the body, Hemiplegia ; and if to a par-
ticular part, Paralyis.
Treatment. Emetics, blisters kept open, and
strong clysters ; nervous, attenuating, and stim-
ulating medicines, as valerian, castor, mustard,
salt of hartshorn, horse-radish, &c. slinging
the part with nettles, or mustard, or other warm
stimulating application rubbed into them, and
that part of the spine from which the nerves
serving the part issue. Electricity and dry fric-
tions are good, as are also chalybeate, and
Eath or Bristol waters.
Palsy of the lower extremities, arising from ca-
ries of the spine, and accompanied with a dis-
tortion of it, has been frequently cured by ap-
plying a large caustic on each side of the pro-
tuberant vertebra, and keeping the ulcers open
as issues.
PARAPHYMOSIS. See Phymosis.
PAREIRA BRAVA, ROOT.
Diuretic, attenuant; ℈ss. to ℈ij. Also in de-
coction.
PARSLEY, ROOT AND SEED.
Stimulant, diuretic. 
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PARSNIP, WATER.
The expressed juice, ℥ij. to ℥iv. every morning,
in cutaneous diseases.
PECTORALS.
Obtunding. Oils of almonds, olives, and linseed,
spermaceti, linseed, honey, liquorice, troches
of starch, compound powder of tragacanth.
Balsamic. Balsams of Peru and Tolu, ben-
jamin, storax, sulphur, sulphurated oil, sul-
phurated fossil tar. Sedative. Camphorated
tincture of opium.
PELLITORY OF SPAIN, root.
Stimulant. Chiefly as a masticatory.
-OF THE WALL.
Mildly diuretic, aperient, emollient; ʒij. or iij.
of the expressed juice.
PEMPHIGUS.
Symptoms. Fever, accompanied with the suc-
cessive eruption from different parts of the
body, internal as well as external, of vesicles
about the size of an almond, which become
turgid with a saintly yellowish serum, and in
three or four days subside.
Treatment. The debility and tendency to pu-
tresaction indicate the bark and cordials : yet
a few grains of mild muriated quicksilver at
night, with a cathartic in the morning, have
been successful. When vesicles appear on in-
ternal 
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ternal parts, irritation must be guarded against
by opiates, demulcents, and gentle laxatives.
PENNYROYAL.
Simulant, antihysteric. ESSENTIAL OIL OF.
gt. i. to v. SPIRIT OF. ʒj- to ʒiij. WA-
TER OF. ℥iss.
PEPPER, BLACK, THE BERRY;
CAYENNE, THE CAPSULE ; LONG, THE
FRUIT.
These are all hot and stimulant; the Cayenne
most so. This may be given to gr. vj. or viij.
PEPPERMINT.
Stimulant. ESSENTIAL OIL OF. gt. ss. to ij.
SPIRIT OF. gt. xx. to lx. WATER OF. ℥ss.
to gij.
PERIPNEUMONY,
OR INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS.
Symptoms. Difficult breathing, with oppression
and seeming load at the breast ; the breath
hot ; cough ; fever ; redness in the face ;
pulse sometimes hardly perceptible, but after
bleeding, strong, though unequal. Differs
from a Pleurisy in the cough being more
moist, the pain less acute, and the pulse not so
strong.
Treatment. Bleed repeatedly, if necessary; and
give nitre, with spermaceti, or oil of almonds,
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salt of hartshorn, gentle antimonials, or the
like. Cooling emollient clysters are useful, as
are also blistering and cupping,
PERIPNEUMONY, BASTARD.
Symptoms. Heat and cold alternately ; pain and
giddiness of the head, when the cough is
most troublesome ; vomiting; quick, difficult
breathing, and wheezing ; pain of the breast ;
urine turbid, with red sediment. Differs
from a true Peripneumony, in not having ex-
traordinary heat, pain, thirst, or fever ; by its
usually seizing those of a relaxed and gross
habit; and by prevailing most in moist soggy
weather, contrary to the other.
Treatment. Bleed not, unless the pulse be very
full, and comatose symptoms appear ; blisters,
emetics, laxatives, emollient clysters, attenu-
ants and diluents ; pectorals for the cough,
and opiates is necessary.
PHLEGMON,
OR SUPERFICIAL INFLAMMATION.
Symptoms. Heat, pain, tension, redness, and
throbbing in the part; fever ; if not resolved,
the part proceeding to suppuration, gangrene,
or scirrhus.
Treatment. Remove any perceivable external
cause ; bleed, purge, and give diaphoretic feb-
rifuges ; apply emollient fomentations and
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poultices to the part, or preparations of lead.
If matter form, cease evacuation, and forward
the suppuration ; when ripe, open the abscess,
and digest. If gangrene appear, treat as di-
rected under that article.
PHRENSY, PHRENITIS,
OR INFLAMMATION OF THE BRAIN.
Symptoms. Constant delirium and fever, difficult
breathing, violent pain in the head augmented
by light; great sensibility to sound ; redness
of eyes and face ; pulse quick, hard, and
small; tongue black and dry ; urine thin and
transparent; sudden startings ; picking the
bed-clothes. Known from a common fever,
&c. by the delirium preceding the fever.
Treatment. Bleed largely ; stimulating clysters,
blisters, the pediluvium, and sinapisms to the
feet ; spirituous embrocations to the head, first
shaved. Nitre, salt of hartshorn, or other at-
tenuants, purges, and diluents ; opiates, is
necessary ; promoting the hæmorrhoidal flux
is of great use.
PHTHISIS. See Consumption.
PHYMOSIS and PARAPHYMOSIS.
Symptoms. The first is a closing of the prepuce
over the glans penis, so as not to be drawn
back ; the last, a constriction of it behind the
glans, so as not to be drawn over it.
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Treatment. Foment, poultice, bleed, and purge ;
vomit is necessary ; and give cooling sebrisu-
ges. If these fail, proper incisions must be
made.
PILES,
OR PAINFUL TUMOURS IN THE ANUS OR
RECTUM.
Treatment. Bleed, if necessary ; and give sul-
phur, or quicksilver with sulphur, nitre, and
elect, of senna ; is very painful, opiates ; if
they be external, foment them with warm
emollient liquors, or anoint them with oint-
ment of elder, or the like ; if they bleed
much, apply gentle astringents ; if much swell-
ed and inflamed, scarify, or apply leeches to
them. Sulphurated oil is very proper to ap-
ply to the Piles, and the ointment of quick-
silver has also been found useful. They may
more expeditiously be driven away by lini-
ments made of powder of galls, or acetated
cerusse, or by washing them with solutions of
white or blue vitriol. But as the hæmorrhoi-
dal discharge is generally salutary, caution must
be used in repelling it.
PIMENTO, BERRY.
Aromatic, stimulant; gr. xv. to ʒj. Spirit of.
ʒss. to ʒij. WATER OF. ℥j.
PIMPLES.
Treatment. Wash them with a solution of ace-
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tated cerusse, or vitriolated zinc. If these
fail, try camphorated spt. a solution of prepar-
ed kali, or white calx of quicksilver mixed
with pomatum. If they proceed from foul 
blood or a scorbutic cause (as it is termed)
treat them with alteratives, as directed for the
Land Scurvy ; with now and then a cooling
purge.
PINK, INDIAN, ROOT.
Sedative, anthelmintic ; ʒj. to ʒiss. Also in
insusion, ʒiij. to ʒiv.
PITCH, BURGUNDY.
Stimulant, epispastic, externally applied. COM-
POUND PLASTER OF. The same.
PLAGUE.
Symptoms. Shivering ; pain in the head, back,
and stomach ; sickness and vomiting; des-
pondency; anxiety; difficult breathing ; wild-
ness of countenance ; high fever ; faintings;
hiccups ; and catching of the tendons. Tu-
mours at length appear in the groin, arm-pits,
or behind the ears ; and then the fever abates,
but returns is the tumours sink. Fetid breath
and sweat; livid spots, sometimes broad, and
suddenly disappearing. Carbuncles arise in
the worst state of the disease, which seldom
suppurate kindly, but appear as red fiery cir-
cles : they are small tumours, with corrupted
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flesh underneath, and attended with great itch-
ing. The symptoms, however, vary accord-
ing to the constitution and state of the air, but
these are the most general.
Treatment, The tumours are critical, and should
be encouraged by ripening cataplasms, and
proper cordials ; the carbuncles should be
poulticed with cataplasms of cummin, or the
like ; and is they appear gangrenous, scarify,
and dress them with oil of turpentine, and
hot digestives, as in Mortifications.
The disease itself should be treated with diapho-
retics, antiseptics, cordials, antiphlogistics, or
other remedies, according to the symptoms ;
but in general, camphor, nitre, snakeroot, and
bark, &c. an emetic being first given, seem
most eligible in this dreadful disorder.
N.B. The vapour generated by nitre, especially
is the deflagration be made with odoriferous
ingredients, is said to prevent infection.
Inoculation has lately been recommended in the
Plague by Dr. Samoilowitz,. a Russian physi-
cian ; but if the disease be liable to attack
more than once, which seems to be the case,
this can be of no use.
PLEURISY.
Symptoms. Chilliness and shivering, succeeded
by heat, thirst, and restlessness ; a violent acute
pain on one side, near the ribs, extending to-
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wards the shoulder-blades, back, and breast,
and worst when the affected side is lain on ;
difficult breathing; redness of the cheeks;
nausea ; and dry cough ; the matter spit up,
is any, yellowish or bloody.
Treatment as in the Peripneumony ; but repeated
bleeding, laxatives, and cooling attenuants, as
salt of hartshorn with nitre, are chiefly to be
relied on.
POISONS.
Treatment. When these are taken, if the time
have been but short, give a strong emetic of
white or blue vitriol, drinking plentifully of
warm water to wash the stomach ; oily clys-
ters should also be given repeatedly; as should
likewise cathartics. If muriated quicksilver
were the poison, give a solution of any fixed
alkaline salt. If opium, or other narcotic,
give acids (as vinegar) with water or broth;
apply blisters ; and, is necessary, bleed. A-
gainst all mineral poisons, sulphurated kali has
been recommended. Care must be taken to
continue these operations a sufficient time;
afterwards the stomach and bowels should be
healed with proper balsamic remedies, broths,
&c. for Anemic - Vinegar
POMEGRANATE, SHELL AND FLOWERS.
Tonic, astringent; ℈ss. to ʒss. Also in de-
coction.  
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POPPY, CORN, FLOWERS.
Weakly sedative.
POPPY, WHITE, HEAD.
Sedative. SYRUP OF. ʒss. to ʒiss. EXTRACT
OF. As opium, in about double the dose.
POWDER, ALOETIC.
Cathartic, deobstruent; ℈ss. to ʒss.
- WITH GUAIACUM.
Deobstruent, sudorific, antirheumatic; gr. v. to x.
Cathartic ; ℈j. to ℈ij.
- WITH IRON.
Emmenagogue ; ℈ss. to ʒss
- ANTIMONIAL.
See Antimony.
- AROMATIC.
Gr. v. to ℈j.
- OPIATE.
Gr. x. contain 1 of opium.
POX. See Venereal Disease.
POX, CHICKEN; or SWINE POX.
Symptoms. Chilliness, heat, and the usual pre-
cursory symptoms of fever; but milder than
in the small pox. The eruptions appear about
the third day. They rise like those of the
small pox, but may be known from them by
the matter being more like water than pus;
by 
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by little vesicles, or bladders filled with water
on the top of such pustules as are whole ;
and by their turning about the fifth day;
which the others do not till at least the seventh.
Treatment. Cooling febrifuges, as nitre, with
magnesia, antimonials, saline draughts, &c. and
diluents ; and afterwards two or three purges.
The Swine Pox is only a larger sort of Chicken
Pox.
POX, SMALL. See Small Pox.
PROCIDENTIA, VEL PROLAPSUS ANI,
OR BEARING DOWN OF THE RECTUM.
Treatment. Corroborants, as bark, &c. laxa-
tives, clysters, and aperients, if costive ; clys-
ters of infusion of roses, or other bracers;
chalybeates and cold bathing. N. B. If there
be inflammation, emollient fomentations and
poultices. The part should be gently reduc-
ed, and kept up with a bandage ; rest and an
horizontal posture are proper.
PROLAPSUS UTERI. Treatment as in the pre-
ceding case. Pessaries are also proper to be
worn.
PRUNES.
Laxative, cooling.
QUASSIA,
WOOD, BARK, AND ROOT.
Tonic, corrector of putrid bile ; grs. v. to xv.
in infusion. 
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QUICKSILVER.
All the preparations of quicksilver, taken inter-
nally, are antivenereal, alterative, deobstruent,
and vermifuge. Taken freely they induce
salivation. The preparations now directed by
the college are: ACETATED. gr. ij. to vj.
CALCINED. gr. ss. to ij. MURIATED. gr.
⅒ to ss. MILD MURIATED, or CALOMEL.
gr. i. to iv to 15. PILLS OF. ℈ss. to ʒss. RED
SULPHURATED, gr. iij. to ℈j. VlTRIOLAT-
ED. gr. ss. to j. As an emetic ; gr. iv. to
viij. Also an errhine. WHITE CALK.
℈j. to ʒss. WITH SULPHUR. ℈j. to ʒj.
The following are for external use. Red
nitrated. Escharotic. WHITE CALX
OF. Repellent, discutient. OINTMENT OF,
MILDER AND STRONGER. The same. The
latter is generally employed to excite saliva-
tion. OINTMENT OF NITRATED. Chiefly
in cutaneous assections. OINTMENT OF
WHITE CALX OF. The same, Plaster
OF AMMONIACUM WITH. Resolvent. PLAS-
TER OF LITHARGE WITH. The same.
QUINCE, FRUIT AND SEED.
Fruit, cooling, restringent. Seed, obtunding.
QUINCY.
Symptoms. Inflammation of the throat, with
pain, great heat, tumour, redness, difficulty
in 

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in swallowing, and fever ; the uvula some-
times relaxed and inflamed ; the face red.
Treatment. Bleed according to exigency ;
open the body ; blisters to the back, and near
the part ; gargle with water of ammonia
and comp. decoct, of barley, strong of the
former ; poultice the part with bread and
milk, to which camphor may be added; and
the liniment of ammonia may also be applied.
If it suppurate, cease to evacuate ; and inhale
emollient steams. When ripe open the ab-
scess ; afterwards gargle with infusion of roses
and tinct. of myrrh.
RAISINS.
Obtunding, aperient.
RASPBERRY, THE FRUIT.
Cooling, antiseptic.
RATTLESNAKE-ROOT.
Diuretic, diaphoretic, antiseptic ; ℈j to ʒss.
It sometimes salivates.
REFRIGERANTS.
Nitre, water of acetated ammonia, crystals of
tartar, sorrel, simple oxymel, tamarinds,
prunes, summer fruits, acids.
RESIN, YELLOW, CERATE OF.
Digestive. OINTMENT OF. The same.
RHEUMATISM, ACUTE.
Symptoms. Rigor, shivering, fever, thirst cos-
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tireness, wandering gnawing pains, with
swelling and redness in the part affected.
The pain worse towards night, and in bed.
Treatment. Bleeding ; salt of hartshorn, nitre,
camphor, guaiacum, antimonials, or the
like ; laxatives, and opiates occasionally.
The part may be rubbed with lin. of soap,
camphor, and oil ; lin. of ammonia, &c.
Warm somentations are good ; the part may
be covered with flannel, diluents should be
freely given, and a diaphoresis kept up.
When the urine deposits a copious sediment,
the bark may be given ; it may be joined
with some of the above, and opium, may be
occasionally added;
RHEUMATISM, CHRONIC.
Differs from the acute, in that it is not attended
with fever or inflammation in the part; and
chiefly attacks those advanced in life, contra-
ry to the other.
Treatment. If necessary, bleed, and purge with
elect, of scammony, senna, &c. Compound
powder of ipecacuanha, or other anodyne
sudorific, may be given : calomel in small
doses, with wine of antim. has been found ef-
ficacious ; as hath likewise precipitated sul-
phur of antimony, with camphor, about three
grains of each. Bark, and sarsaparilla are
given by some ; but gum guaiacum with vol-
atile 
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atile salts, the guaiacum with an opiate, or
salt of hartshorn with nitre, and the camph.
mixture, according to circumstances, are gen-
erally successful. Sydenham praises con-
serve of arum. Warm embrocations to the
part, and flannel, are also serviceable ; cold
bathing, where not improper on other ac-
counts ; a flannel shirt worn next the skin,
is a good preventive of a return. N. B.
Mustard has been effectual, taken inwardly,
and rubbed into the part. Electricity, fric-
tion, and exercise of the part, are useful
RHUBARB, ROOT.
Cathartic ; ℈j. to ʒj. or. more. Stomachic ;
gr. iv. to ʒss. TINCTURE, COMPOUND
TINCTURE, and WINE OF. ʒj. to ʒij- As
a. cathartic ; ℥ss. to ℥ij.
RICKETS.
Symptoms. The head large ; the fontanels keep
long open ; the face full and florid; the
teeth produced with difficulty dark, irregu-
lar, and apt to decay ; the joints knotty, and
the bones protuberant, causing incurvation
and distortion ; the ribs protuberate, and be-
come crooked ; the belly swells ; cough and
pulmonary disorders succeed. The disease
usually appears about the eighth month, and
continues till the sixth year; the child moves
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weakly and waddles; the understanding is
very early.
Treatment. Cold bathing ; friction ; bathing
the back with spirituous embrocations, or
warm balsamic liniments ; strengthening
plasters; gentle vomits of ipecacuanha ;
purges with rhubarb and quicksilver with
sulphur ; bark, chalybeates, air, and exer-
cise.
RING WORMS. See Tetters.
ROSE, DAMASK, the flower leaf.
Laxative. WATER OF. As a perfume.
- RED, THE FLOWER LEAF.
Astringent; gr. v. to ʒss. CONSERVE OF.
ʒj. to ʒij. or more. INFUSION OF. ℥ij. to
℥iv. HONEY OF. A mild, cooling, deter-
gent. Chiefly in gargles.
ROSEMARY, TOP AND FLOWER.
Cephalic, carminative, nervous, in infusion. ES-
SENTIAL OIL OF. gt. ij. to iv. SPIRIT OF.
ʒss. to ʒj- Externally as a stimulus.
RUE.
Nervous, antispasmodic, alexipharmic, antipesti-
lential; ʒss. to ʒj- Also in infusion. Juice
in clysters, vermifuge. EXTRACT OF. ℈ss.
to ℈j.
RUPTURES. See Hernia.
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SAFFRON.
Cordial, gr. iij. to ℈j. also in infusion. SYRUP
OF. ʒj. or more.
SAGAPENUM.
Aperient, stimulant, nervous ; gr. v. to ʒss
twice a day.
SAGE, THE LEAF.
Tonic.
ST. JOHN'S-WORT, FLOWER.
Tonic.
SAL AMMONIAC.
Attenuant, febrifuge; gr. v. to ℈j. Diuretic,
diaphoretic; to ʒj. In a large dose it proves
emetic Externally discutient.
SALT, COMMON.
Stimulant. Chiesly in clysters. A table spoon-
ful, taken dry, has been found very efficacious
in stopping hæmoptysis.
SANDERS, RED, wood.
Slightly tonic.
SARCOCOLLA.
Obtunding, slightly stimulant.
SARSAPARILLA, ROOT.
Alterative, antivenereal, obtunding, tonic, ʒss
to 3ij. DECOCTION OF. ℔ss. to ℔j. COM-
POUND, The same. This is an elegant
mode of preparing the Lisbon Diet Drink.
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SASSAFRAS,
WOOD, ROOT, AND BARK OF THE ROOT.
Alterative, antiscorbutic, tonic, sudorisic ; dose
as in Sarsaparilla. ESSENTIAL OIL OF. g.
j. to x.
SAVIN, LEAF.
Stimulant, diuretic, emmenagogue ; ʒss to ʒj.
In infusion, ℥ij. to ℥iv. COMPOUND TINC-
TURE OF. gt. x. to ʒj. EXTRACT OF. ʒss,
to ℈ij.
SCALDS, OR BURNS. Ol Origan
Treatment. Apply oil of linseed alone, or
mixed with an equal quantity of limewater ;
but preparations of lead have been sound par-
ticularly beneficial ; afterwards cerate of
calamine, or other cicatrizer. If inflamma-
tion render it necessary, bleed and purge.
Cotton
SCALD-HEAD.
Treatment. Rub the part with ointments made
of sulphur, pitch, tobacco, or the like ; the
ointment of white calx of quicksilver has
been used with success ; bathing with salt
water ; mercurials, antimonials, or other al-
teratives ; blisters kept open, and issues, are
proper.
SCAMMONY.
Cathartic ; gr. v. to ℈j. COMPOUND POWDER
OF. gr. iv. to xvj. -- WITH ALOES, TO 
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℈j. -WITH CALOMEL. to ℈j. ELECTU-
ARY OF. ʒss. to ʒij.
SCIATICA.
Symptoms. A fixed pain in the hip, like the
rheumatism. Called also the Hip Gout and
Ischias.
Treatment as in Lumbago.
SCIRRHUS, OR HARDENED GLANDS.
Treatment. Endeavour to disperse by mercu-
rial unction, ext, of hemlock, or mercu-
rials, with sarsaparilla, &c. and occasional
purges. If it incline to suppurate, treat it
as directed in abscesses, &c. If it neither dis-
perse nor suppurate, extirpation is the only
cure, where it can be done ; otherwise treat
it with coolers, and occasional anodynes.
SCORDIUM.
Astringent.
SCROPHULA.
Symptoms: Scirrhous unequal tumours, which
do not readily suppurate, affecting the glan-
dular parts, but chiefly on the sides of the
neck ; frequently an enlargement of the
nose and upper lip, and sometimes of the
belly.
Treatment. Purge occasionally with jalap and
calomel ; and give alteratives, as, calomel,
with precipitated sulph. of antimon. or some
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other; millepedes are good ; burnt sponge
with rhubarb ; sea-water internally before
suppuration, and bark and sea-bathing after
they soften ; exercise is good ; gross and
high seasoned diet must be avoided ; vegeta-
ble acids, especially Seville oranges, are prop-
er ; electricity is sometimes beneficial. Mu-
riated barytes has lately been much com-
mended.
SCURVY.
Symptoms. Heaviness, lassitude, low spirits ;
offensive breath ; tender gums ; sallow bloat-
ed countenance ; hemorrhages from the nose
and mouth ; difficult breathing; swelling of
the legs; yellow, purple, or livid spots on
the skin ; tumours in the limbs; contraction
of the tendons of the ham. Other symptoms
occur, but they differ in different subjects, as
do likewise those above mentioned ; and the
disease is in general sufficiently known. It is,
however, distinguished into Sea and Land
Scurvy.
Treatment. In the Sea Scurvy, the juices are
disposed to putridity from the use of animal
food, and moist air ; antiseptics therefore
will be proper, as vegetables, vegetable acids,
fruit, cyder, &c. Infusion of malt, in defect
of these, or liquors made of molasses or sugar.
Bark and vitriolic acid are good. Liquids
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impregnated with fixed air for common drink,
and wholesome air. Chalybeates have been
sound serviceable, especially when joined with
the bitters, or bark. Burying the patient up
to the chin in fresh dug earth has been sound
extremely serviceable.
The Land Scurvy (improperly so called) is
rather a cutaneous disease ; scurfy or scabby
eruptions appear, either partially, or more uni-
versally ; often with itching and heat.
The antimonial alteratives, with gentle mercu-
rials, are frequently efficacious; lime water,
or the compound juice of scurvygrass, may
be used with them. Crystals of tartar and
flowers of sulphur are good. The parts may
be anointed with saturnine liniments, with a
little white calx of quicksilver, is necessary.
SCURVY GRASS, GARDEN.
Stimulant, antiscorbutic; the juice or infusion,
℥ij. to ℥iv. twice a day. Compound juice 
of. ℥j. to iv.
SEDATIVES.
Soporific. Opium, poppy, animal oil, oil of
wine, compound spirit of vitriolic æther,
spirits of nitrous and vitriolic æther. Nar-
cotic. Blue wolf's-bane, deadly night-shade,
hemlock, bay leaf, bitter almond, Indian pink.
Topical. Opium, preparations of lead, cerate
of soap. 
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SENEKA. See Rattlesnake-root.
SENNA, THE LEAF.
Cathartic; ʒj. to ʒiij. COMPOUND POWDER
OF. ʒss. to ʒj. ELECTUARY OF. ℥ss. to ℥ij.
EXTRACT OF. ℈ij. to ʒj. SIMPLE INFU-
SION OF. ℥j. to ℥ij. TARTARISED INFUSION
OF. The same. TINCTURE OF. ℥ss. to ℥ij.
SETON, TO MAKE.
Pinch up the skin and fat with the finger and
thumb, and run a proper needle through them,
armed with a skain of silk or thread smeared
with digestive ointment; which must be shift-
ed a little every day, so as to keep both ori-
sices running.
SHINGLES. See Tetters.
SIALAGOGUES.
Topical. Tobacco, pellitory of Spain, arum,
angelica, pepper, cloves. Internal. Prepara-
tions of quicksilver, rattlesnake-root.
SILVER, NITRATED.
Formerly Lunar Caustic.
SIMAROUBA, BARK.
Tonic, astringent; ℈ss. to ʒss. Also in de-
coction.
SINGULTUS. See Hiccups.
SKIN, diseases of. See Cutaneous Disease:.
SLOES. 
L

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SLOES.
Astringent. Conserve of. ʒij. to ℥ij.
SMALL-POX.
Symptoms. Chilliness ; shivering ; heat; pain
in the head and back ; sickness and pain at
the stomach, and sometimes vomiting ; fever;
costiveness ; convulsive fits sometimes in chil-
dren, which is a good symptom. On the
third or fourth day the eruptions appear, like
flea-bites, in the face, breast, arms, body and
feet successively, with pains and soreness in the
throat. The eruption being completed, the
fever goes off or abates. The eruptions sill,
or maturate like boils, and the skin between
them is red ; the eye-lids, face, hands and
feet swell successively ; the pocks, from red,
grow whitish and smooth in the body, yellow
and rough in the face, and are full of white
matter. About the seventh day from the
eruption (sometimes the ninth) they dry, or
turn, as it is called, and scale off, leaving red
marks, and sometimes pits behind.
Treatment. If the pulse be full and strong at
the beginning, bleed; and, if necessary, or the
period be sufficiently early, purge, and give
an emetic. During the eruptive fever, cool-
ing febrifuges, with laxatives, or clysters oc-
casionally ; but is the symptoms require it (as
low

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low pulse, &c.) gentle cordials and diaphoret-
ics. After the eruption, little is generally
required but a gentle anodyne at night, proper
diluents, and, if necessary, opening clysters,
&c. If purging come on, check it with cau-
tion ; is delirium or fever, apply blisters ; and
if the pock sinks, give bark, with proper dia-
phoretics and cordials ; especially if malignant
or putrid symptoms, or petechiæ appear. Spt.
of vitriolic æther is also good in these cases,
as are sinapisms to the feet.
In the confluent kind, all the symptoms are worse
than in the distinct. The eruption makes its
appearance a day or two later, and does not
come to its height till the eleventh or four-
teenth day after ; the fever also continues af-
ter the eruption appears, and a salivation comes
on, which must by no means be checked.
The patient requires to be supported more in
this case than in the other ; care, however,
must be taken in both kinds to avoid too
much heat, or a heating regimen ; and pure,
and even cool air, where no objection appears,
is salutary. If the pustules be opened, and
the matter let out, so much the better; es-
pecially if danger of their sinking or striking
in appears. Purging is esteemed proper after
this disease.
To inoculate for the Small Pox, take a little mat-
ter 

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ter from a pustule, after the eruptive fever, on
the point of a lancet, and insert it in the arm
(by making a small puncture or two) between
the true and scars skin, which may afterwards
be pressed down with the flat side of the lan-
cet. Three or four days afterwards the punc-
tures appear inflamed ; in about three days
more, the precursory symptoms come on, and
at length the eruption.
Previous to the inoculation, a mercurial purge
or two may be administered, is the patient be
of a full or gross habit ; and he should also
be restrained to a milk and farinaceous or
vegetable diet, avoiding especially high season-
ed food. It is found best to keep him out of
bed, and much in the cold air. The symp-
toms are generally so favourable, that little as-
sistance is required from medicine, except a
few mercurial purges after the disorder goes
off.
SNAKEROOT, VIRGINIAN.
Stimulant, tonic ; ℈ss. to ʒss. Also in infu-
sion to ʒj. or ij. TINCTURE OF. ʒj- to ʒiv.
SOAP.
Diuretic, icteric, lithontriptic, attenuant; ℈j. to
ʒij. twice a day. CERATE OF. Astringent,
sedative. COMPOUND LINIMENT OF. Dis-
cutient, strengthening. PLASTER OF. Re-
solvent. 
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SOR SPH
SORE THROAT, PUTRID. See Angina
maligna.
SORREL, COMMON, LEAVES.
Cooling, antiseptic.
-WOOD, LEAVES.
The same. CONSERVE OF. At pleasure.
SOUTHERNWOOD.
Tonic, antiseptic.
SPASMS. See Convulsions.
SPERMACETI.
Pectoral, obtunding, emollient ; ℈j. to ʒj.
Ointment of. Healing, softening.
SPHACELUS,
OR COMPLETE MORTIFICATION.
Symptoms. This succeeds a Gangrene (which.
see) is it cannot be stopt: the part loses all
sensation, and yields an intolerable smell.
Treatment as in Gangrene. When the separa-
tion is advanced, amputate the limb, or cut
out the part, if it can be done with safety ;
persisting in the use of the bark, &c. till a com-
plete digestion is procured. When accom-
panied with convulsive spasms, or occasioned
by them, or by local injury producing irrita-
tion, large and frequent doses of musk and
salt of hartshorn have proved very efficacious.
The doses have been augmented from ℈ss.to
ʒij. of each. SPIRIT,
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SPIRIT, CAMPHORATED.
Externally stimulant, discutient.
SPLEEN. See Hypochondriacal and Hysteric
Diseases.
SPONGE.
Externally styptic. BURNT. Stimulant, resol-
vent; ℈j. to ʒss.
SPRAINS. See Strains.
SQUILL, ROOT.
Stimulant, diuretic, expectorant; gr. iij. to viij.
Emetic; ℈ss. to ℈j. CONSERVE OF. ʒss.
to ℥j. OXYMEL OF. ʒss. to ʒiss. Emetic ;
℥ss. PILL OF. gr. v. to xx. VINEGAR
OF. ʒss. to ʒj. Emetic; ℥ss. HONEY OF.
ʒss. to ʒiss. Emetic; to ℥ss. TINCTURE
OF. ʒss. to ʒj.
STARCH, MUCILAGE OF.
An useful clyster in diarrhœa. TROCHES OF.
Pectoral.
STAVESACRE, SEED.
Externally in some kinds of cutaneous erup-
tions, and for destroying vermin.
STIMULANTS.
Electricity, æther, musk, volatile alkalis, alcohol,
wine, rectified oil of amber, essential oils, Ger-
man leopard's bane, asarabacca, Syrian herb-
mastic, pellitory of Spain, pepper, mustard,
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horse-radish, arum, squill, ammoniacum, snake-
root, zedoary, contrayerva, pepper-mint, mar-
joram, penny-royal, savine, elecampane, eryn-
go, scurvy grass, water-cress, dill, cummin,
coriander, wild carrot, parsley, assasœtida, sa-
gapenum, opoponax, frankincense, sarcocolla,
borax, common salt, tar, sulphurated fossil tar
and oil, compound tincture of benjamin, min-
eral acids, Aromatics. Externally. Oil of
turpentine, camphorated spirit, spirit of rose-
mary, ladanum, gum elemi, Epispastics.
STINGS, venomous.
Treatment as in Bites.
STOMACH, INFLAMMATION OF.
Symptoms. Heat, pulsation, and acute pain in
the part, which is increased by swallowing ;
tension at the pit of the stomach ; anxiety ;
continual retching ; hiccup ; small, weak, in-
termitting pulse.
Treatment. Bleeding, emollient liquids, and
clysters ; fomentations ; gentle opiates ; blis-
ters ; mucilage of gum arabic ; with small
doses of nitre occasionally.
STOMACH, PAIN IN. See Heart-burn.
STOMACHICS.
Gentian, camomile, orange and lemon peel, co-
lumbo, quassia, bark, rhubarb, essential oil of
juniper, plaster of ladanum.
STONE 

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STO
STONE and GRAVEL.
Symptoms. Pain in the back and loins, or the
region of the bladder ; nausea ; vomiting ;
strangury ; sometimes bloody urine ; costive-
ness ; retraction of the testicle of the affect-
ed side ; numbness down the thigh and leg.
When the calculus is got into the bladder, the
pain in the kidneys abates, and the urine be-
comes turbid.
Treatment. Bleed, is no objection appear ;
draughts with oil of almonds and large quan-
tities of gum arabic, with manna and opium
added occasionally. As solvents, the water
of pure kali from x. to xxx. or lx. drops in
veal broth twice a day. Soap, oyster-shells,
and lime-water, are also good; and in some
cases, the salt of hartshorn, or marine acid.
Water impregnated with fixed air, or the
mephitic alkaline water, and the effervescent
mixture, have been sound solvents in some
cases ; as have also spt. of nitrous æther, uva
ursi, live millepedes, and decoction or oil of
juniper. In violent fits of the disorder, the
semicupium is good; and clysters with Venice
turpentine, or oil of turpentine, and opium.
In nausea and vomiting, the saline draughts,
with tinct. of opium ; and care should be taken
to keep the body properly open with cathar-
tics of the cooling saline kind, or rather with 
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manna, castor oil, and ins. of senna, or other
mild purge. Milk of almonds, decoction of
marshmallow roots, or the like, may be used
freely as common drink. (See also Colic,
Stone ; and Urine, Suppression of.)
STORAX.
Pectoral, tonic ; gr. v. to ℈j.
STRAINS.
If internal, give spermaceti, or compound tinc-
ture of benjamin, with spruce beer. If out-
ward, apply lin. of soap, vinegar, lin. of am-
monia, or arquebusade. If there be inflam-
mation, foment and poultice, bleed and purge.
STRANGURY.
Symptoms. A difficulty of making water, attend-
ed with heat or scalding: it often proceeds
from blisters.
Treatment. Give milk of almonds or mucilage
of gum arabic freely. If these fail, boluses of
camphor and opium. See Urine.
STYPTICS.
Blue vitriol, alcohol, compound tincture of ben-
jamin, vitriolated iron, alum, acetated cerusse,
lint, flour, sponge. Internal. All astringents.
SUDORIFICS.
Calefacient. Guaiacum, contrayerva, snake-root,
rattlesnake-root, saffasras, mezereon. Stimu-
lant. 

30 
SUL TAB
lant. Volatile alkalis, antimonials, sal ammo-
niac, inspissated juice of elder-berries. Anti-
spasmodic. Compound powder of ipecacuanha,
opiate confection, camphor, spirits of nitrous
and vitriolic æther, warm bath, vapour bath.
Diluent. Vinegar whey, aqueous liquors.
SULPHUR, FLOWERS OF.
Pectoral, alterative, aperient ; ℈j. to ʒij. PRE-
CIPITATED. The same. WASHED FLOWERS
OF. The same. OINTMENT OF. For the
itch.
SWINE-POX. See Pox, Chicken.
TABES DORSALIS.
Symptoms. A wasting of the whole body, at-
tended with fever, but no spitting or cough,
by which it is known from a Phthisis. A col-
lection of matter in some part of the body is
usually the cause, but it particularly attends
the inflammation of a scirrhous gland.
Treatment. If it arise from a scirrhous liver,
soap, and mild chalybeates. If the scirrhus
or abscess be external, open or extirpate. The
bark is often proper in these cases, as is also
myrrh with nitre, or vitriolated kali. The body
must be kept properly open ; but purgings
should be checked. Gentle exercise, whole-
some air, and proper mild diet, with the use of
asses milk, and the like, are often of much
service. 
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TAMARIND, THE FRUIT.
Cooling, antiseptic, laxative ; at pleasure.
TANSY, FLOWER AND HERB.
Tonic, anthelmintic ; ℈j. to ℈ij.
TAR.
Stimulant, diuretic. Made into pills with pow-
der of elecampane; ʒss. of the mass is given
for a dose in disorders of the breast, cutane-
ous diseases, &c. Of Tar-water ℔j. or ℔ij.
may be drunk in a day. OINTMENT OF.
Digestive. Also in cutaneous diseases.
-FOSSIL, OR BARBADOES.
Stimulant. Oil of. The same, but more
acrid. Sulphurated. Stimulant, pecto-
ral ; gt. v. to xx.
TARTAR, CRYSTALS OF.
Cooling, opening ; ʒij to ℥j.
TEETHING.
Symptoms. Inflammation and swelling of the
gums, with flavering; fever; and sometimes
Convulsions.
Treatment. Cooling febrifuges in case of fever;
the body should be kept gently open. If con-
vulsions arise, give tinct. of assafœtida and car-
minatives, or oil of aniseed with magnesia ; if
a rash appear, compound powder of contrayer-
va with nitre is usually given ; if a cough, sper-
maceti, 

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maceti, or other balsamic pectoral: leeches
and blisters may be applied is necessary ; and
if the disorder be violent, the gums should be
lanced. Gentle anodynes are often useful.
TENESMUS.
Symptoms. Frequent, or even continual inclina-
tion to go to stool, without occasion, or being
able to void any.
Treatment. Clysters, with mutton broth and
opium ; or with starch, oil, and compound
powder of chalk ; or with spermaceti, suet,
or the like. Spermaceti with opium may al-
so be given inwardly.
TESTICLES, INFLAMED.
Treatment. Bleed, purge, and even vomit, is
necessary, in order to cause revulsion.
Warm emollient fomentations and poultices
are usually recommended ; but cold applica-
tions to the part are much more efficacious. 
Febrifuges and gentle diaphoretics, with an 
opiate at night, are good. If matter form, 
open and let it out. The testicles should be 
suspended, and the patient kept as much as
possible in an horizontal posture.
TETANOS.
Symptoms. A rigid and painful contraction
of the muscles of the neck and trunk of 
the body, drawing it backwards or for-
wards

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wards in a curve, with convulsions; some-
times an attempt to swallow liquids pro-
duces general convulsion, as in hydrophobia.
Treatment. Give large doses of musk and
opium, keeping the body open with castor
oil, or other proper purge. The warm bath,
emollient fomentations and spirituous embro-
cations to the parts, are good; so are salt of
hartshon, nervous medicines, and clysters
with turpentine and opium. If it be the con-
sequence of local injury, excite inflamma-
tion in the part injured. After the disorder
give bark, or other restoratives.
TETTERS.
Treatment. They may be touched with ink,
a weak solution of vitriolated iron or zinc,
acetated cerusse, prepared kali, or muriated
quicksilver. If these prove too violent, soft-
ening and cooling liniments, or cream.
Camphorated spirit and the ointment of the
white calx of quicksilver are good. Some-
times alteratives of the mercurial and antimo-
nial kind, or cooling Febrifuges and purges,
are necessary.
Pimples, Ringworms, Shingles, Grubs, Freckles,
and other like cutaneous complaints, also give
way to some of the above methods.
THISTLE, 
M

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THI TOB
THISTLE, BLESSED.
Tonic, is lightly insused: strong decotion
emetic. In powder, dose ℈j. to ʒj.
THROAT, SORE.
See Quincy and Angina gangrenofa.
THRUSH.
Symptoms. Little ulcers in the mouth and
throat, of a white or yellow colour. Fre-
quent in children.
Treatment. Keep the body gently open with
magnesia or rhubarb; give the saline mix-
ture, with comp. powder of contrayerva, and
touch the ulcers now and then with syr. of
mulberries and borax, or with alum, French
bole and honey, infusion of roses, &c. See
also Fever Aphthose, Fever Miliary, Angina
gangrenosa, and Venereal Disease.
TIN, POWDER OF.
Vermifuge ; ʒy. to ℥j.
TOBACCO, LEAF.
Powerfully diuretic; sometimes emetic, purga-
tive, and diaphoretic: frequently produces
giddiness and nausea. If one ounce of the
best Virginian tobacco be infused in a pint of
boiling water for an hour, and ℥xiv. be
strained off, adding to them ℥ij. of alcohol,
gt. xl. to lx. or more, may be given twice a
day. 

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TON TOO
day. An ounce of this infusion, in half a
pint of gruel, may be given as a stimulating
clyster, instead of the common one of tobac-
co smoak. Some prefer an insusion in Span-
ish white wine, ℥j. to ℔j.
TONICS.
Iron, alum, blue vitriol, vitriolated and calcin-
ed zinc, mineral acids, bark, quassia, colum-
bo, gentian, camomile, oak, galls, lesser cen-
taury, cascarilla, logwood, pomegranate shell
and slower, simarouba, tormentil, bistort,
ginzeng, zedoary, bay, blessed thistle, worm-
wood, horehound, southernwood, cinquefoil,
tansy, buckbean, uva ursi, mint, sage, balm,
elm, clove-july-flowers, valerian, snake-root,
contrayerva, sassafras, sarsaparilla, coltssoot,
orris, kino, balsams of Canada, Capivi, and
Peru, frankincense, turpentine, mastic, myrrh,
olibanum, storax, compound tincture of ben-
jamin, amber, dragon's-blood. Topical.
Vinegar, camphorated spirit, liniment of
soap, Astringents.
TOOTH-ACHE.
Treatment. If hollow or decayed, apply com-
pound tincture of benjamin, or some essential
oil, upon cotton, to the part; or pills with
camphor and opium; or chew the root of
pellitory of Spain. Some burn the nerve
- nitric acid with 

136 TOR TUR
with vitriolic or nitrous acid, or a hot iron ;
or touch the antihelix with the latter. If
there be inflammation, bleeding, purging, and
blisters behind the ears. If it proceed from
Cold or Rheumatism, treat it as directed for
those complaints. Vitriolated zinc in nau-
seating doses has been effectual, and like-
wise electricity.
TORMENTIL, ROOT.
Tonic, astringent; ℈ij. to ʒj.
TRAGACANTH, GUM.
Obtunding. COMPOUND POWDER OF. ʒss. to
ʒiij.
TREMORS.
Treatment as in Nervous Complaints and Palsy.
TUMOURS, ENCYSTED.
Try to disperse them with quicksilver ointments
or plasters, friction, or electricity ; if these
fail, hemlock fomentations and poultices, and
give inspissated juice of hemlock, or mercu-
rials, with sarsaparilla, &c. and occasional
purges. If you cannot disperse them, endeav-
our at suppuration ; if that fail, extirpation,
where it can be done, is the only cure.
TURMERIC, ROOT.
Aperient, diuretic ; ℈j. to ʒj.
TURPENTINE,

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TUR VAL
TURPENTINE, CHIO, AND COMMON.
Diuretic, detergent, strengthening ; ℈j to ʒjss.
The common is rarely given internally. OIL
OF. Diuretic, sudorisic ; gt. x. to xv. REC-
TIFIED OIL OF. gt. viij. to xij.
TUTTY.
Externally in collyriums sor the eyes ; cooling,
astringent. OINTMENT OF. The same.
TYMPANY.
A collection of wind or air in the intestines, par-
ticularly the colon, by which they become vi-
olently distended.
Treatment. If fever and full pulse, bleed ; keep
the body open with gentle laxatives, joined
with aromatics; but refrain from strong purges,
and from carminatives not joined with proper
aperients. The belly should be frequently
rubbed, and swathed with flannel. Exercise
is good ; gentle corroborants, as camomile
flowers, and small doses of chalybeates joined
with aromatics, are also very proper. It has
been relieved by clysters with infusion of to-
bacco.
VALERIAN, WILD, ROOT.
Tonic, nervous, antispasmodic ; ℈j. to ʒj. or
more. TINCTURE OF. ʒj t0 ʒiv. AM-
MONIATED. ʒss. to ʒij.
VARIX,
M2 

138 
VAR VEN
VARIX,
OR ENLARGEMENT OF A VEIN.
Treatment. Keep it compressed with proper
bandages, and, is necessary, bleed and evacu-
ate. If these fail, treat it as in the operation
for Aneurism.
VENEREAL DISEASE.
Symptoms. An itching at the orifice of the ure-
thra, sometimes extending over the whole
glans : a little fulness of the lips of the ure-
thra : inflammation : a discharge from the
urethra, at first whitish, but sometimes chang-
ing to yellow or green, attended with pain,
and smarting in making water, or without ei-
ther : commonly a fulness of the penis, par-
ticularly of the glans : frequently a soreness
in part, or throughout the whole of the ure-
thra, occasioning pain in erection : when the
inflammation or irritability of the urethra is
great, the penis is incurvated downwards in
erection, with considerable pain, and some-
times hemorrhage. These symptoms are
sometimes accompanied with swellings of the
testicles, or sympathetic tumefactions of the
neighbouring glands. This stage of the dis-
ease is called the virulent gonorrhœa.
Sometimes the infection is received by the viru-
lent matter remaining in contact with the pre-
puce, 

139
VEN
puce, or glans, in which it produces an ulcer,
indisposed to heal, and with a hardened base ;
this is termed a chancre : is the matter pro
duced by this ulcer be absorbed, we find bu-
boes in the groin ; blotches on the skin, at first:
attended with inflammation, which goes off
and a white scurf arises, successively peeling
off and returning, at length becoming copper-
coloured, and finally forming a scab with an
ulcer underneath ; ulcers in the throat; nodes
on the tendons, ligaments, periosteum, and
bones ; caries ; and nocturnal pains.
Treatment. In the gonorrhœa some rely on mer-
curials given internally in small doses : others
employ injections alone : some lay the chief
stress on diuretics : others combine these dif-
ferent methods. Quicksilver, however, is by
no means necessary to the cure of this stage of
the disease. If the inflammation be consider-
able, no injections should be used but those of
the sedative kind, as those composed of opium
or lead : if very great, emollients alone must
be ventured on, as milk and water, oil of al-
monds, or thin mucilage : when slight, astrin-
gents may be employed : and in some cases
irritating injections are proper, as a weak so-
lution of muriated quicksilver. Whatever
method we pursue, the constitution should be
attended to, which, with the symptoms, will
in 

140 
VEN
in general best direct the treatment. Painfull
erections and chordee are srequently relieved
by opium, and in the latter leeches applied to
the part are sometimes serviceable at the be-
ginning.
When a gleet will not yield to the turpentine
balsams, as bals. of capivi, or astringent injec-
tions, and amending the constitution, irritating
injections are sometimes successful.
If the disorder be a confirmed lues, quicksilver is
the only remedy. Calomel, or calcined quick-
silver, may be given internally in small doses,
or a portion of the strong quicksilver ointment
may be rubbed into the thighs every night.
The quantity must depend on the constitu-
tion of the patient. We should always stop
as soon as a slight soreness of the mouth is
produced, resuming the mercurial in a few
days, and persisting in its use till about a fort-
night after the symptoms have disappeared,
but carefully avoiding a salivation. After the
cure, the bark, restoratives, and a strengthen-
ing diet, are proper.
In obstinate venereal complaints, not yielding to
mercurials, decoctions of box-wood, woody
nightshade, mezereon, daphne lagetto, epiden-
drum claviculatum, sarsaparilla, or the outer
green shells of walnuts, have been said to have
proved successsul.
Chancres 

141
VER VIN
Chancres may be dressed with some preparation
of quicksilver mixed with ointment of wax, or
conserve of roses. Recent ones may some-
times be cured by consuming them with caus-
tic, and afterwards healing : but it is never
safe to omit the use of mercurials internally.
Buboes should be dispersed by rubbing the strong-
er quicksilver ointment into the thigh, perine-
um, and root of the penis ; keeping the pa-
tient at rest ; and the antiphlogistic regimen.
Some recommend the liniment of ammonia
rubbed in, in the same manner, every hour or
two.
For Hernia humoralis, see Testicle, inflamed.
See also Phymosis.
VERDIGRIS.
Externally detergent, good against fungous flesh.
Oxymel of. The same.
VERTIGO.
Symptoms. Objects, though at rest, seem to turn
round; dimness of sight ; and fear of falling.
Treatment. Bleed, in the jugular, and cup in
the back part of the head 5 blisters kept open ;
a vomit and laxatives ; then the nervous med-
icines, and chalybeate waters.
VINEGAR.
Cooling, antalkaline, antiseptic ; ʒj. to ℥ss.
DISTILLED. The same, but stronger.
VIOLET, 

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VIO VOM
VIOLET, THE FRESH FLOWER.
Aperient.
VITRIOL, BLUE.
Emetic ; ℈ss. to ℈j. Tonic ; gr. ¼ to j.
Externally escarotic, styptic. GREEN. See
Iron. White. See Zinc.
ULCERS.
Treatment. Dress them with proper digestives;
and if they be fungous, apply an escar-
otic ; if foul, mix red nitrated quicksilver
with the digestive, or use the oxymel of ver-
digris, or tinct. of myrrh. Dry lint alone,
in some cases, is good. If callous, cut or eat
away the callosity. If the bone be carious,
either scrape it, or make small perforations to
promote exfoliation ; or dress with lint, ei-
ther dry, or wetted with tinct. of myrrh. If
humours abound, give proper alteratives and
purges ; and if putridity appear, the bark and
vitriolic acid.
VOMICA,
OR ABSCESS IN THE LUNGS.
Symptoms. Cough, difficult breathing, even after
the pain which preceded-it goes, off; slight
shiverings, followed by heat ; a quick weak
pulse ; hectic fever ; wasting of the body ;
the patient cannot lie down but on the side
affected. 

143
VOM
affected. It is sometimes a consequence of
pleurisy.
Treatment. Gentle medicines of the turpentine
kind, balsamics and diuretics, steams of hot
water, with bals. of Tolu, benzoin, &c. receiv-
ed into the lungs ; occasional laxatives, bleed-
ing if inflammation, soft balsamic food, and
gentle exercise.
VOMITING.
Treatment. If it arise from foulness of stomach.
(as bile, acidity, &c.) an emetic will be use-
ful; and afterwards, if necessary, a rhubarb
or other gentle purge ; and stomachics, co-
lumbo root, magnesia, opiates, &c. according
to circumstances. If from spasms, the saline
draughts, and proper opiates : medicines of
the nervous class, joined with laxatives ; and,
if necessary, a blister to the back. If from
inflammation, bleeding, cooling diluents and
febrifuges, as the saline draughts with proper
laxatives ; and anodynes at discretion. If
from weakness of the stomach, bark, bitters,
or other corroborants ; premising a vomit is
judged necessary. Chalybeate waters are also
proper. If the stomach be sore, as it is
termed, the compound tincture of benjamin,
spermaceti, or other-balsamics, are good. In
vomitings, the best form of medicine is pills.
Vomitings

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VOM URI
Vomitings are often symptomaric, as in sits of
the gravel, pregnancy, &c.; the original dis-
order must, in those cases, claim the chief at-
tention.
VOMITING OF BLOOD. See Blood.
URINE, BLOODY.
The treatment may be similar to that prescribed
for the Diabetes.
URINE,
PROFUSE DISCHARGE OF, OR DIABETES.
Symptoms. An excessive discharge of urine, pale
and sweet, having lost its natural appear-
ance and qualities, sometimes with a fragrant
odour ; the body emaciated.
Treatment. Tonics, as bark, vitriolic acid, cha- '
lybeates, alum, bitters, and the like. Tincture
of cantharides has been sound efficacious, as
hath also blue vitriol, in doses of half a grain,
twice in a day. Exercise, and light, but
strengthening diet, are also proper.
but steak
URINE, SUPPRESSION OF.
Called Ischury, if total ; Strangury, if but in
part ; and Dysury, if the latter be attended
with heat : usually occasioned by inflamma-
tion or spasms on the neck of the bladder, in
consequence of blisters, or some other cause.
Treatment.

145
UTE WAR
Treatment. Oily medicines, and plenty of gum
arabic, with opiates or camphor, if necessary.
The body should be kept open with gentle
laxatives, and emollient clysters; if necessary,
bleed, foment the belly, rub the liniment of
ammonia into the perineum, and advise the
warm bath. If caruncles in the urethra be
the cause, bougies, introduced with proper
caution, are serviceable. When arising from
gravel, the infusion of tobacco has been very
successful, and frequently, in bilious habits,
℥ss. of pure lemon juice. Sometimes ischury
has been removed by placing the feet and legs
in water as cold as possible. If nothing suc-
ceed, puncturing the bladder is the last re-
source.
UTERUS INFLAMED, &c. See Womb.
UVA URSI, LEAF.
Tonic, antinephritic ; ℈j. to ʒj.
WALNUT, UNRIPE FRUIT.
Anthelmintic ; of a watery extract about ℈ij.
have been given as a dose.
WARTS.
Touch them with some caustic or escarotic dai-
ly, paring off first the decayed part ; or cut
them off with scissars, and touch the roots
with blue vitriol, or the like. If it can con-
veniently 
N

146 
WAT WOM
veniently be done, tie round the bottom a fine
hair, or silk thread, and they will die away.
The juice of celadine, or spurge, rubbed over
them, is esteemed good.
WATERCRESS.
Stimulant, antiseptic; ℥j. or ij. of the expressed
juice.
WAX.
Balsamic, antidysenteric; externally healing.
OINTMENT OF. Cooling. COMPOUND
PLASTER OF. Drawing.
WHITES. See Fluor albus.
WHITLOW.
Treatment similar to that directed for Boils and
Abscesses.
WINE.
Stimulant, antiseptic. OIL OF. Sedative, an-
tispasmodic. Used for making the Camp. Sp.
of Vitriolic Æther, or Hossmann's Anodyne
Liquor.
WOLFSBANE, BLUE.
Narcotic, and violently evacuant, in a large dose;
sedative and sudorific, in a small one ; from ⅙
of a gram of the expressed juice to gr. vj.
twice a day.
WOMB INFLAMED.
Symptoms-. Pulsation, pain, heat, and tumour
in 

147
WOM
in the part; fever, tenesmus, pain on going
to stool, and difficulty of making water.
Treatment. Bleeding, laxatives, emollient clys-
ters, cooling febrifuges, diluting liquors, fo-
mentations and poultices, &c. as in other in-
flammations : (See Stomach, Bladder, Kid-
neys, &c.) but if the patient be weak, bleed-
ing and all considerable evacuations must be
avoided.
If a Cancer succeed, it must be palliated with
gentle anodynes, occasional bleeding and lax-
atives ; and proper detergent, or other in-
jections.
WOMB RETROVERTED.
Symptoms. A total obstruction of the urine and
feces, the fundus of the womb occupying the
hollow of the sacrum, and the orifice being
turned towards the symphysis pubis. It gen-
erally happens about the third month of
pregnancy.
Treatment. Draw off the water by the cathe- 
ter ; and replace the uterus, if it can easily be
done. If it cannot, it is best left to itself, as
it will naturally resume its proper-position, if
care be taken to prevent an accumulation of
water in the bladder, by an occasional use of
the catheter if requisite. The flexible male
catheter is most convenient, and should be
introduced 

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WOR
introduced slowly. After the water is drawn
ofs, a clyster should be given, and repeated if
necessary
WORMS.
Symptoms. Itching of the nose and anus; hun-
ger, with ravenous appetite ; nausea ; gnaw-
ing pain in the stomach or intestines; fetid
breath ; grinding of the teeth, and moaning
in sleep ; intermitting weak pulse, and hectic
fever ; faintings, and sometimes convulsive
fits ; paleness ; wasting of the flesh. But
there are several kinds of worms. Itching
about the anus, with tenesmus, are signs of
ascarides, or small thread worms. Sudden
gripings about the navel, denote the common
round worms. Gnawing pains in the stom-
ach, and voraciousness, the maw worms. And
a weight in the belly, like the rolling of a ball,
the tænia, or tape worm.
Treatment. Tin filings, with rhubarb, or other
proper aperient; sem. santon. calomel, æthi-
ops, or other mercurials, every night, with a
purge now and then ; cowitch. The infusion
of bears-soot leaves is esteemed good ; cab-
bage-tree bark has also been recommended.
Aloes, wormwood, rue, favine, especially in
clysters ; and for the ascarides, oil of olives,
or the fumes of tobacco thrown up the rec-
tum ; 

WOR WOU 149
turn ; for the tape worm, the male fern root
ʒj. every hour for three times, and presently
after a strong drastic mercurial purge. See
Dr. Simmons's ingenious pamphlet on the
subject. Corroborants are proper after a
course of anthelmintic medicines.
WORMSEED.
Anthelmintic ; gr. v. to ℈j.
WORMWOOD, COMMON.
Tonic, antiseptic, vermifuge ; ℥ss. to ℥ij. of the
3uice. In fomentations, discutient.
-SEA, TOPS.
Tonic, antiseptic. CONSERVE OF. ℥ss.
WOUNDS.
Treatment. Remove extraneous substances ; if
the wound be simple, close the lips with slips
of sticking-plaster, or the stitch if necessary ;
and apply lint, either dry, or wetted with
compound tincture of benjamin, &c. If nec-
essary, bleed and purge ; or give cordials, &c
according to circumstances. Dress with some
mild digestive, or defensative ; and if fungous
flesh appear, use escarotics : afterwards cica-
trize.
If there be loss of flesh, defend the part from
the air with proper, mild, vulnerary dressings,
while nature supplies the loss. In other
respccts, 
N 2

150 
ZED ZIN
respect (the future excepted) proceed as
above. If an artery or vein be wounded or
divided, apply styptics, ligatures, &c. accord-
ing to circumstances. If a nerve be divided
in part, (as violent pain, convulsions, and de-
lirium will indicate) divide it entirely; as must
also be the case with a tendon or artery in like
circumstances. If there be fever, bleed,
purge, and give cooling febrifuges ; and if in-
flammation, apply emollient poultices and fo-
mentations. If the patient be low, and the
wound do not go on kindly, bark, or other
proper cordial and strengthening medicines,
with suitable diet, should be prescribed.
ZEDOARY, ROOT.
Tonic, stimulant; gr. x. to ʒss
ZINC, CALCINED.
Emetic, tonic, antispasmodic ; gr. ss. to viij. It
has been increased to ʒss. Also externally,
as Tutty or Calamine, to either of which it
is preserable. VITRIOLATED. Astringent;
gr. ij. to-x. Emetic; gr. v. to ʒss. Ex-
ternally, cooling, astringent. WATER OF
VITRIOLATED Z. WITH CAMPHOR. Ex-
ternally astringent. Diluted as a collyrium.
A TABLE, 

A TABLE, exhibiting the Proportions
of OPIUM, MERCURIALS, AND CATHARTICS,
contained in the feveral Compositions into which
they enter.
Opiate confec-} contains of { Opium gr. I.
tion, gr. 36
Pill Of Opium,} _ _ gr. I.
gr. 5
Compound pow-}
der of Chalk }  _ _ gr. I.
with Opium, gr. }
43⅔
Compound pow-}
der of Ipecacu-  } _ _ gr. I.
anha, gr. 10}
Opiate powder, } _ _ gr. I
gr. 10 
Tincture of Opi-} _ _ gr. 4[1/1]⅙
urn, m.* 3j. 
Camphorated }
tincture of Opi-} _ _ gr. 1⅞
um, m. ℥j. }
Ointment of white}    {White calx of
calx of Quick-} _ {Quickfilver,
silver, 13 parts} {1 part.
Ointment
* Where m occurs, in this Table, it stands for meas-
ure, in contradistinction to weight.

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TABLE.
Ointment of ni-} {Nitrated Quick
trated Quicksil-} contains of {silver, 1
ver, 5 parts} {part.
Stronger oint-}
ment of Quick-} _ {Quicksilver, 1
silver, 2 parts} {part.
Weaker ointment}
of Quicksilver,} _ _ 1 part.
6 parts}
Plaster of Am-}
moniacum with} _ _ 1 part.
Quicksilver, 5}
parts
Plaster of Li-}
tharge with} _ _ 1 part.
Quicksilver, 5}
parts}
Quicksilver with} _ _ 3 parts.
Chalk, 8 parts}
Quicksilver with}
Sulphur, 2 parts}
Pill of Quicksil-} _ _ gr. 2.
ver, gr. 5}
Powder of Scam-} {Calomel, gr. 1.
mony with Cal-} _ {Scammony, 
omel, gr. 4} {gr. 2.
Compound pow-} {Scammony, gr. 4
der of Scammo-} _ {Hard extract of
ny, gr. 9} {Jalap, gr. 4
Compound

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TABLE
Compound pow-} {Scammony, gr. 3.
der of Scammo-} contains of {Hard extract of
ny with Aloes,} {Jalap, gr. 6.
gr. 17} {Aloes, gr. 6.
Compound pow-} {Scammony, gr. 2.
der of Senna,} _ {Senna, gr. 8.
gr. 19} {Crystal of Tar-
Electuary of} {tar, gr. 8.
Scammony, ʒss.} _ {Scammony, gr.
Aloetic powder,} {5.
gr. 15} _ Aloes, gr. 12.
Aloetic powder}
with Guaiacum,} _ _ gr. 1
gr. 2}
Aloetic powder}
with Iron, gr.} _ _ gr. 3.
11}
Pill of Aloes, ℈j. _ _ gr. 12.
Pill of Aloes with} _ _ gr. 14.
Myrrh, ʒss.} 
Wine of Aloes,} _ _ ʒss
m. ℥j.}
Tincture of Al-} 
oes, m. ℥j.} _ _ gr. 15.
Compound tinc-} 
ture of Aloes,} _ _ gr. 45.
m. ℥j.}
Tincture of Jal-} _ Jalap, 3ss.
ap, m. ʒij.} 
Wine 

154 TABLE.
Wine of Rhu-} contains of { Rhubarb, ʒss.
barb, m. ℥j.}
Tincture of Rhu-}
barb, m. ℥j.} _ _ ʒss
Compound tinc-}
ture of Rhu-} _ _ gr. 34.
barb, m. ℥j.}
Tincture of Sen-} _ Senna, gr. 45.
na, m. ℥j.}
Simple infufion of} _ _ ʒiss.
Senna, m. ℥ij.} {Senna, ʒifs
Tartarifed infu-} _ {Crystal of Tar-
sion of Senna,} {tar, gr. 15.
m. ℥ij.} {Senna, gr. 25.
Electuary of Sen-} _ {Pulp of Caffia,
na, ʒss.} {℈j. Pulp of
Electuary of Cas- {Tamarinds, ℈j.
sia, ʒij {Pulp of French
{Prunes, ℈j
{Pulp of Cassia, ʒj.
{Manna, ʒj. Pulp
{of Tamarinds,
{℈ss.
THE END. 

in a pint of wills
Tartar Emetic - Dose 6 grs - 6
Ipeac. - 30 grs. --- 1/
Tulap - 40 grs --- 9d
Salts from ℥j to ℥ij - 6d
Rhubarb --- ʒj --- --- 1/
Tartar vit & Rhub. 3ss of each 1/
Calomel - grs 8 to 12 grs  9d
& 20 Jalap
Manna - ℥j --- --- 1/
Senna - 3ij - 
manna }
& } - man. Sen. ⅙
sennel}
Laudanum
Paregoric
Elix. Propeictat
Fr Sacra
vin Antimon -