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ARMED FORCES MEDICAL LIBRARY




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                   THE
 MEDICAL POCKET BOOK.
   Containing a fhort but plain account of the
SYMPTOMS, CAUSES, and METHODS of CURE,
                  OF THE
  DISEASES incident to tke HUMAN BODY;
           Including fuch as require
      SURGICAL  TREATMENT :
              Together with the
          FIRTUES  AND  DOSES
                     OF
MEDICINAL COMPOSITIONS  AND SIMPLES,
   extracted  from the best authors, AND
      digested into alphabetical ordeu.
By Sir JOFIN ELLIOT, m. d.
       FOURTH AMERICAN EDITION,
Copiedfmm the latefl Englijh Edition; Tv'.th Additions, Im-
          proi/ menti, and Corrections.
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1803. 
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provements are made ;  fuch as,  ufing the  letters
over each page, in the manner of a Dictionary, and
inferring the  additions and  corrections  (neceffary
to make the work agree with the laft edition of the
f ...■ihIo-.i Pilar mace pcrla) in their proper places, in-
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 *  Sir  JOHN PRINGLE, Bari.

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               PREFACE.

 JL HE advantages of a publication of this
 kind to the practitioner in medicine, are too
 obvious to need enumeration;  I fhall, there-
 fore, only premife a few neceiTary obfervation$
 relative to the v/ork itielf,
   I. The dofes of medicines, &c. are fet down
 as  for adults ; and  therefore the prefcriber
 will eafily vary them for other ages. For ex-
 ample, children of two years-old may, in gen-
 eral, take about a third part of the  Ojvjs for
 adults, or a little more ; and fo in proportion
 for other ages, the  confutation being  alfo con-.
 fidered.
   II.  "Where it could conveniently be done,
 I have mentioned the intervals  at which the
medicines are to be repeated : but thefe may
be varied at the prefcriber's difcretion.   For
brevity's fake I have, in many  places, ufed
the word frequenter ; by which I would have
it  underilcod,  that  every  three, four,  fix,
           . a 2                       eight 
VI               PREFACE.
eight, &c. hours are meant, according tp the
exigency of the cafe.
   III. When any particular indication is to
be obferved,the claffes, (as cathartics,diuretics,
aflringents,  &c.) may be referred to ; under
which heads as many of the compofitions and
fimples as were judged neceffary are arranged.
   IV.  The  limits affigned to the work would
not admit of formula ; nor do I think them
by any  means neceffary.  The dofes of all
the articles ufually adminiftered are fet down ;
and I will not fuppofe that there is any med-
ical practitioner who cannot give directions
for making  them  into draughts,  bolufes, or
other forms  that may be required.  The ve-
hicles fhould be either perfectly innocent, (as
aq. pura, fyr. fimp. Sec.)  or oi fimilar virtues
with the medicines to be given.  And if two
articles of the fame virtues (cathartics, for ex-
ample) be employed, it fcarcely need be men-
                                    tioned, 
                 PREFACE.              Vli
tioned, that the dofe of each mutt be propor-
tionably lefs.   It may be added, that ingre-
dients of a volatile nature fhould be given in
a liquid  form, left their virtues exhale ;  and
very naufeous ones fhould, if convenient, be
given in the form of pills or bolufes.
  V.  In the alphabet  I have, for the mofl
part, made ufe of Englifh names ; or, at leaft,
have ufually referred from thofe where tech-
nical ones are employed.
  This work was drawn up originally for my
own ufe, and in the courfe of practice I have
found it very convenient to refer to occafion-
ally.  It was the opinion of thofe medical gen-
tlemen who faw the  MS. that  it would be
equally ufeful to others, and this was my mo-
tive for making it public.  If it affifl the prac-
titioner's memory in  matters already known
(at leaft  till he has leifure to confult larger
works,where neceffary) my defign isanfwered.
                                   J. E, 
ADVERTISEMENT
                    TO  THE
               THIRD EDITION.
   IN the prefent edition the old names of medicines
have been exchanged for thofe of the New Phar-
macopeia of the London college ; thofe nowfrfl ad-
mitted into that Pharmacopeia infer ted, with the ad-
dition of a few not deemed by the college fufficiently.
eflabl'i/hedfor that purpofe, though adopted into the
private praSice of fome eminent phyficians, and f
too much importance for a knowledge of them to be
thought fuperfuGus to any praU'itioner ; thofe omit-
ted by the college are expunged : the dofes have been
carefully correcled from the hfl authorities ; in the
treatment of difeafcs fuch alterations have been made
as later experience has  approved ; and a few have
been added to the catalogue  rjjhich were not noticed
yi the former ediliois.
                                           THE 
THE
MEDICAL  POCKET BOOK.
              ABORTION.
SYMPTOMS.  Pain in the  back, loins, and
 lower part of the belly; fhiverings ; a flux of
 blood from the womb ; naufea, anxiety, pal-
 pitation of the heart, fyncope, an opening and
 moifture  of the os tineas.  Moft commonly
 happensbetweenthefecondandfourthmonths
 of pregnancy, though it may occur later.  It
 may be occafioned by frights, falls, ftrong
 emetics or cathartics, or by any violent com-
 motion of body or mind.
Treatment.  If the pulfe be ftrong, bleed, give
 nitre, and purfue the antiphlogiftic regimen:
 if the patient be weak, the bark and chalybe-
 ates.  In general the medicines fhould be of
 the tonic and fedative kinds.   The body
 fhould be kept open with clyfters, or other-
 wife ; the diet light broths, and the like; and
 the patient fhould be kept very cool, ftill, and
 q uiet in bed.   To ftop the hemorrhage, ftyp-
 tics may  be applied to the os uteri, and a
                                    cloth 
zo        ABS
ACI
 cloth dipped in vinegar to the os externum,
 and pubes.   Some recommend acetated ce-
 ruffe internally in large dofes.
If, neverthelefs, abortion follow, difcontinue
 the corroborants, and give fpermaceti medi-
 cines with opiates, &c. as after child-birth.
               ABSCESS.
Treatment.  Common abfceffes may be treated
' by bringing them forward with proper cata-
 plafms, and when ripe, opening, digefting,
 and cicatrizing.   Avoid evacuations during
 the fuppuration, unlefs inflammation require.
 See  alfo boil, phlegmon, and ulcer.
             ABSORBENTS.
Opening.  Magnefia.  Aflringent.  Chalk, burnt
 hartfhorn, oifter fnells, crabs' claws, red co-
 ral,  French bole, lime-water.
             ACID, ACETOUS.
This  is radical vinegar as  it is called.   It is
 ufed for fmelling  to in faintings.
             ----- MURIATIC.
Tonic, ftimulant,  diuretic, lithontriptic ; gt.
 xx. to xl.
              ---- NITROUS.
Tonic, ftimulant, diuretic ; gt. v. to xx.
             ----- VITRIOLIC.
Tonic,  ftimulant,  lithontriptic  ; gt. ij. to v.
 Pi lute. gt. xxx. to Ix.
                            ACONITUM. 
ACO          AGU
    ACONITUM.   See Wolfsbane, blue.
      iETHER, NITROUS, SPIRIT OF.
Diuretic, diaphoretic, fedative, febrifuge, car-
 minative ;  D]. to ?j.
            ------VITRIOLIC.
Antifpafmodic, nervous ; gt. xx. to Sfs.  Alfo
 externally as an anodyne.  Spirit of.  As
 of nitrous; to 5'j-—Compound.  Anodyne,
 &c. 3fs. to 3ifs.
                 AGUE.
Symptoms. The fit begins with cold fhiverings;
 a I'mall quick pulfe ; pain in the back and
 head ; naufea.  To thefe fucceed great heat
 and fever, which terminate in fweats.  The
 urine during the fit, pale, clear, and without
 fediment; but in the interval, turbid, with
 a copious fediment of a reddifh  colour.
In the Quotidian Ague the fit returns once in
 a day.
In the Tertian, every other day.
In the  Quartan, the intermiffion is  of two
 whole days.
Treatment.  The bark In  fubftance. 3j« every
 two hours during the intermiffion, adding an
 opiate, if it run off by ftool.•  If the1 ftomacii
 will not bear the powder, give it in decoction
 or i^fufion, or the extract in pills.   Camo-
 mile flowers, fnakeroot, acid of vitriol^ kali,
                                        or 
ALM         ALT
 or opium,maybe added according to circum-
 ftances ; or an emetic and cathartic may be
 premifed if neceffary.  The repetitions may
 be left frequent after the fit has been miffed
 once or twice.   Blue vitriol, gr. fs. diffoived
 in §j. of proof fpirit, and given before the fit,
 has fucceeded m fome defperate cafes ; fo has
 electricity,  in or juft before the fit.  White
 arfenic (which fee) has been very effectual;
          ALMOND, BITTER.
Sedative, diuretic.
             -—---sweet.
Obtunding.  Milk of.  §iv. to ftfs. or more.
 Oil  of.   Pectoral, opening ; 3ij« to §iv.
 Externally  foftening, relaxing.
       ALOES, inspissated  juice.
Cathartic, anthelmintic ; 9fs. to 9ij.  Emme-
 nagogue ; gr. v,. to x. twice a day.   Exter-
 nally applied, vulnerary.   Compound pills
 of, to 3j-   Pills of, with Myrrh.   The
 fame.  Powder of, with Camella.---
 WITH GuAIACUM.   ---- WITH IrON.  See
 Powder  aloetic, &c    Tincture  of.
 §fs.  to 5ifs.  Compound. 3f's- to 3i>----
 Wine  of.  3j- to 3ij«  As a  cathartic;
 to lij.
           ALTERATIVES.
Mercurials, antimonials, hemlock, mezereon,
                                   water- 
           ALU         AMM        13

 water-parfnep, guaiaeum, farfhparilla, faffa-
 fras,  prepared  natron, tar,  fulphur.  Any
 medicine  that works  a cure gradually, by
 correcting the patient's habit of body, may
 be called an alterative.
                 ALUM.
Tonic, aftringent; gr.  iv. to 9j. Externally
 aftringent and cooling*, Burnt. Eicharctic.
 Alfo internally, particularly in colic ; gr. ij.
 to Bfs.  Compound  Water  of.   Aftrin-
 gent, cooling.   Cataplasm of.  The fame
 as an epithem ; chiefly in opthalmies.
                AMBER.
Tonic ;  3fs. to  ~j.    Oil  of, RECTiFlEr).
 Stimulating, nervous, emenagcgv.e ; gt. v.
 to xx.   Salt of, purified.   Ncrvcu:, diu-
 retic ;  to 3j.
         AMMONIA, prepared.
Antacid, attenuant, ftimulant. diaphoretic; gr.
 iij. to xv.  Spirit of.   The fame ;  gt. xx.
 to Ix. or more.   Compound.  Alfo cepha-
 lic ; gt. xx. to lx. or more.   Fetid.  An-
 tihyfteric ; gt. xx. to lx.   Succinate©,  or
 Eau de Luce.  Chiefly  for fmelling, to.  Wa-
 ter of.  Gt. xx. to lx. or more.  Water
 of acetated a.  Attenuant, cooling, fudo-
 ritic, diuretic ; *ij. to sfs. Water of pure
 A.  Cauftic volatile  alkali.   Liniment or.
           B                   Difcutient, 
r4        AMM         ANG

 Difcutient, rubefacient.   Stronger l. of.
 The fame.
         AMMONIACUM, gum.
Stimulant, aperient; 9fs. to 9j.   Milk of.
  §fs. to §j.
            ANALEPTICS.
Cantharides, aromatic confection, faftron, co-
  chineal, aromatics and flimulants.
       ANASARCA.   See Dropfy.
             ANEURISM,
   OR AN ENLARGEMENT OF AN ARTERY,
         (known by its  pulfation.)
Treatment. Bleeding, and proper evacuations ;
 with low fpare diet.  Lead may be bound
 down pretty tight on the part.  If thefe fail,
 recourfe mud be had to the operation of ty-
 ing it above and below the tumour.
ANGEUCA,ROOT, STALK, LEAF, AND SEED.
Stimulant, aromatic ; 3fs. to 3>j-
      ANGINA GANGRENOSA,
         OR,PUTRID SORE THROAT.
Symptoms.  Giddinefs in the head, alternate
 heat and cold, and at length, after fome hours,
 conftant great heat:. fometimes vomiting or
 purging ; pains in the  head ; eyes inflamed
 and watery, as in the meafles; anxiety, faint-
 neis, fore throat, with florid colour ;  or elfe,
                                 a broad- 
ANG
*5
  a broad irregular fpot,of a pale white colour,
  furrounded with red. On the fecond or th
  day the face, neck, breaft, and hands fwelle..,
  and as if eryfipelatous ;  an efnorefcence of
  manyfmallred pimples fometimes appears On
  the arms and other parts. The throat lloughs,
  ulcerates, and is very painful. Oftenfivetafte,
  and delirium towards night.
Treatment.  Avoid bleeding and evacuation,
  gentle fudorifics and a flight emetic at the
  beginning excepted; and purgings fhould be
  checked.   Gargle,:  or  rather fyringe  the
  throat with the compound decoction of bar-
  ley, to which vinegar, myrrh, and honey of
  roles may be added.   If the floughs do not
  feparate, touch them with a rag dipped in a
  mixture of oxymel of verdigris, 3j- and 5ijw
  of the preceding gargle ; or gargle with wa-
  ter acidulated with muriatic  acid.  But the
  principal reliance rmift be on the bark given
  freely-with wine and acids.   To reftore the
 .patient give  bark and vitriolic  acid, with
 proper ftrengthening diet.
       ANGINA MAXILLARIS.
Symptoms. Laffitude, heavinefs, general reftlefs
 uneafmefs, gentle rigors, and flight  fever ;
 thefe  are followed by a ftiffnefs, with obtufe
 pain, in the articulation of the lower jaw: the
 parotid glands, neighbouring fkin,and cellu- 
x6
ANG
 lar membrane, fwell: fometimesadufky eryfi-
 pelatous inflammation covers the tumour. If
 the fwelling fubf:defuddenly,anexacerbation
 cf the fymptoms comes on, with tumefaction
 of one or both  tefticles.  If this fubfide in
 like manner, the head is affected, and  deli-
 rium follows, with convulfions, and other a-
 larming fymptoms, fometimes proving fatal.
Treatment. Promote perfpiration from the parti
 affected by keeping them warm ;  cover the
 fwelling with a blifter; and give diaphoretics,
 v/ith opium, if neceffary.  The body fhould
 be kept gently  open ; but bleeding muft be
 carefully  avoided, unlefs the moft  preffmg
 judications require it.
         ANGINA PECTORIS.
Svmptoms.  A pain underneath fome part of the
 ftemum, with a fenfe of ftrangling and anxi-
 ety, coming on fuddenly whilft walking,par-
 ticularly focn after a meal, and  vaniihing on
 (landing ftill': after fome months it  does not
 ceafe fo inft-ntaneoufly on (landing ftill; will
 come on when the patient is -lying  in bed,;
 and fometimes  even when ftanding ftill, cr
 fitting ;  the pain ufually extends acrofs the
 breaft, ar.d is felt particularly at the infertion
 of the pectoral mufcle into the os humeri: it
 is generally on the left fide, fometimes on
 both ; it recurs more or lefs frequently, per- 
ANI
ANT       17
  haps for years ;  and at length terminates in
  fudden death.
 Treatment.  Wine  and cordials have generally
  been found to prevent or alleviate the night
  fits, and opiates ftill more fo. In one inftance
  antimonials, and the fetid gums, relieved the
  difeafe considerably in an early ftage,
              ANISEEDS.
 Carminative; gr. iv.  to gr. xv. or in infufion to
   |iv.  Compound  spirit  of.  3j- to 5fs,
   Essential  oil of, gt. iv. to xx.
      ANODYNES.  See Sedatives.
              ANTACIDS.
 All alkalis, fixed  or volatile, and jibforbents.
           ANTALEALINES.
 All acids, wine.
          ANTHELMINTICS,
 Tin, mercurials, cowitch, fern, Indian pink,
  tobacco,  camphor,  afafcetida.  Lubricating.
  Oils of almonds and olives, caftor oil.  Tonic
  Wormfeed, tanfy,  favine, camomile, rue,
  wormwood, lime-water.  Cathartic.  Hedge,
  hyffop, bearsfoot, gamboge, aloes, fcammo*
  ny, jalap, vitriolated natron.
 St. ANTHONY'S FIRE.  See Eryfpelas.
        ANTIMONY, prepared.
Alterative ; 9fs. to 3j. Calcined.   Diapho-
            b 2                      1 eric, 
iS
ANT
 retic, naufeating; gr. v. to 3fs- Muriate©.
 Cauftic.  Precipitated sulphur of.  Al-
 terative, emetic; gr. lj. to viij.  Saffron of.
 Emetic ; gr. ij. to vj.  Tartarised,'  Su-
 dorific, febrifuge ; gr. | to i. Emetic; gr. ij.
 to iv.  Vitrified.   For making the Wine
 of a.  Wine of.  Alterative, diaphoretic ;
 gr. x. to lx.   Diuretic, cathartic  ; 3j« to 3ij.
 Emetic ; 3ij- to 3iv.  Tartarised, wine
 of.  The fame, Antimonial powder; gr.
 v. to xv.  Said to be the fame with James's
 Powder.
          ANTISCORBUTICS,
          Antifeptics. Alteratives.
             ANTISEPTICS.
Refrigerant. Acids,cold water, cold air. Tonic.
 Bark,columbo,quaffia,camomile,wormwood
 fouthernwood, maftic, lime-water. Stimulant^
 Akohol,wine,madder, rattlefnakeroot,horfe-
 radifh, brook-lime,water-crefs, fcurvy-grafs,
 cummin.  Antifpafmodic.   Camphor, myrrh,
 afafcetida,
          ANTISPASMODICS.
Stimulant.  Electricity, fpirit of vitriolic arther,
 animal oil, oil of amber, mufk, caftor, mille*
 pedes,  foilil  tar, camphor, afafcetida, galba-
 num, myrrh, lady's-fmock, ipecacuanha. Se-
 dative.   Opium, compound ipirit  of vitriolic
                                    feiher, 
          APH           APT        19

 a:ther, valerian, warm-bath.  Tonic.   Bark,
 ginfeng, rue, calcined zinc, blue vitriol, cold
 water.
APHTHJE.  See Thrufh, and Fever Aphthofi.
              APOPLEXY.
Symptoms. A fudden privation of fenfation, and
 voluntary motion.  The face red, and bloat-
 ed ;  the mouth commonly open ; the pulfe
 ftrong and quick, efpecially at firft; refpira-
 tion ftrong, and attended with fnorting.
Treatment.  Blifters fliould be applied to the
 back and lep, and muftard poultices to the
 feet.  Medicines cf the warm, nervous kind, as
 caftor, valerian, camphcr, afafcetida and vol-
 atile falts, fliould frequently be adminiftered.
Authors diftinguifh between a fanguineous and
 piluitous apoplexy :  The firft arifing from  a
 turgidnel's of the veffels of the brain; the laft,
 from ferous matter in the ventricles.  In the
 latter cafe, emetics of theantimonial kind are
 ferviceable,and bleeding fliould beprefcribed
 with great caution ; in the former, bleeding
 and evacuations are proper.  A foft, mild,
 and opening vegetable regimen is prefcribed
 for patients fubject to the fanguineous; and a
 contrary one, with exercife, fr fuch  as are
 recovered from a pituhovU <t "plexy.
           APPETITE, can in t.
Treatment.   J an acid  in the ftomach be the
                                      caufe, 
APP           AR3
 caufe, vomit, and give teftaceous powders,
 magnefia, or alkalis.  If worms, give anthel-
 mintics.   If it be natural, or proceed from
 other caufes, oils, fat meats, and broths, milk,
 and flour diet, will be proper: alfo opiates.
 Smoking tobacco is likewife of fervice.
         APPETITE, loss of.
Treatment.  If the ftomach be foul, give a gen-
 tle emetic of ipecacuanha; and if neceffary, a
 gentle cathartic alfo.  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 magnefia, with
 the bitters.  Sena, rhubarb, tartarifed kali, or
 other laxatives, may occafionally be employ*
 ed, if neceffary.
             ARABIC, gum.
Obtunding ;  Bj. to 3ij-
 ARNICA.   See Leopard's-Bane, German.
             AROMATICS.
Cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg,  mace,  pimento,
 ginger, canella alba, cubebs,calamus aroma-
 ticus, clove-july-flower, elecampane,  angeli-
 ca, cafcarilla.
           ARSLMIC. white.
This has lately been employed with great fuc-
 cefs  in intermittent fever,  ar  periodical
                                    head- 
           ART          AST        ii

  head-aches, in the following form.  DifTolve
  64 grs. with an equal quantity of pure kali,
  by gently boiling in a Florence flafk, in half
  a pint of water.  When cold, add as much
  water as will  make the whole a  pint.   Of
  this  the dofe  fhould be fufficient to excite
  naufea, generally from gt, viij. to xx. twice
  or three times a day.   It fometimes vomits,
  gripes, and purges.
          ARTICHOKE, leaf.
Diuretic ; a fpoonful or two of the expreffed
 juice.   Alfo in infufion.
             ARUM,  root.
Stimulant;  9fs. to Bj.   Conserve or, 3fs.
 to ?-j,                                   :
            ASAFCETIDA.
Stimulant, antifpafmodic, vermifuge ; 9fs. to
 5j»  Milk of, Bfs. to *ij.  Tincture of,
 gt. x. to lx.
         ASARABACCA, leaf.
Stimulant, emetic, purgative ;  3fs. to 3j.  It
 is alfo a powerful fternutatory. Compound
 powder of.   Errhine ; gr. v. or  vj.
         ASCITES,   See Dropfy.
               ASTHMA.
Symptoms.  A difficulty of breathing, attended
• with wheezing ; it returns at  intervals ; is
 preceded by di (inclination to motion, lofs of
                                 appetite, 
22
AST
 appetite, oppreffion, flatulency, and frequent
 eructations.  At length, the cheeks become
 red, the eyes prominent, and there is fuch an
 anxiety and fenfe of fuffocation, that the pa-
 tient can only breathe in an erect pofture*, and
 can fcarcely fpeak or expectorate.  If he hap-
 pen to fleep, he fnores  much ; at  the height
 of the fit is defirous of cool free air; fweats
 about the neck and forehead; coughs up a
 little frothy matter with great difficulty;  no
 fever; pulfe extremely fmall and weak ; urine
 pale and copious: as the fit abates, an expec-
 toration of mucus ; the urine becomes higher
 coloured, and depofits a copious fediment. -
Treatment. During the fit bleecf, if age orweak-
 nefs do not forbid; blifter between the fhoul-
 ders, or at the pit of the ftomach ; the body
 fhould be opened with gentle cathartics; then
 give the pectorals and expectorants, joined, if
 neceffary, with antifpafmodics. and fedatives.
 In thefpafmodic afthma ipecacuanha in fmall
 dofes has fuccecded : fo has extract of hem-
 lock given freely.
            ASTRINGENTS.
Acetatedceruffe,alum,iron. Opium,logwood,
 oak, galls, pomegranate fhell and flower, tor-
 mentil, fimarouba, cinnamon,  red rofe, rhu-<
 barb, floe, quince, catechu, lime-water, burnt
 hartfborn, French bole.  Externally.  Prepa-
                                   ration? 
ATR
23
 rations of lead, calcined and vitriolated zinc,
 calamine, tutty, water of vitriolated zinc with
 camphor, white calx of quickfilver, decoction
 of white hellebore, cerate of foap, ftavefacre,
 cold water.
               ATROPHY.
Symptoms.  A nervous confumption, or wafting
 of the body j  without fever, or other hectic
 fymptoms.
Treatment. This muft be varied according to
 the caufe.   If the appetite and digeftion be
 bad, give a gentle puke, and afterwards the
 bitters with iron.  If fcroph.ulous, chalybeates
 with bark.  If worms be the caufe, anthel-
 mintics.  If lues venerea, mercurials and de-
 coct, of farfaparilla.   If hyfterics  or hypo-
 ehcndriafis, join chalybeates with the gum
 pill or other medicines of this clafs.  If pro-
 fufe evacuation, as fluor albus; the bark, cha-
 lybeate waters, farfaparilla, and exercife.   If
 attended with fcurvy, the fcorbutic  juices,
 vegetable acids,  and  bark.  If  afthmatic
 fymptoms appear, the fquill preparations, or
 other pectorals and antifpafmodics, and blif.
 ters.   Diet, however,  muft affift medicine
 in the cure  ; which, where nothing forbids,
 fliould be of the foft, nutritive, and ftrength-
 ening kind, and eafy of digeftion ;  as milk,
 calves feet, and other jellies, Jcc.  The coun-
 try air is good.                       AT- 
24        ATT          BAR

           ATTENUANTS.
Diluent.  Thin watery liquors, whey;  Solvent.
 Mercurials, alkalis, nitre, fal ammoniac,foap,
 millepedes,burntfponge,pareirabrava, dead-
 ly nightfhade, broom, black hellebore, horfb-
 radiih.
           BALAUSTINES.
Tonic, aftringent;  9fs. to 3fs.   Alfo in de«
 coctton.
                BALM.
Tonic*
          BALSAM, Canada.
Tonie", ftimulant, diuretic ; gr. x. to xxx. lx.
 or more.
          BALSAM of cafivi.
Corroborant, diuretic ; gut. x. to xxx. or up-
 wards.
          BALSAM of Peru.
Gut. iv. to xv. for nervous complaints  and
 head-aches, gonorrheas, afthmas, See. Tinc-
 ture of, Bj. to 3j-
         " BALSAM  of Tolu.
Gr. V. to 9j. for coughs, &c. Tincture of>
 Ij- to ?ij.
     BARK, Peruvian.   See Cinchona*
        BARLEY, decoction of.
Emollient, obtunding ; as common drink.
 Compound.   The fame.             BA- 
BAR             BIT        25
         BARYTES, muriated.
Deobftruent, diuretic,tonic : gt.iv.to x. Twen-
 ty have been given without producing naufea;
 but in large dofes it has deleterious effects.
        BAY, leaves and berries.
Tonic.  The leaf is alfo narcotic.
BEARING DOWN.  See Procidentia, and
                Prolapfus.
          BEARSFOOT, leaf.
Anthelmintic ;  3j- to 3ij. in decoction, 3ij- to
 gfs. of the  expreffed juice.
              BENJAMIN.
Gr. v. to  5fs. as  a pectoral and  afthmatic.
 Flowers of, the fame ; to Bj.  Compound
 tincture  of.   Stimulant,  tonic, t)j. to
 3ifs.   Externally vulnerary.
            BISTORT root.
Tonic ;  to 3j'
          BITES and  STINGS
          OF VENOMOUS ANIMALS.
Treatment.  To thofe of fmall infects, as gnats,
 bugs, wafps, Sec. apply volatile liquor of hartf-
 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 fait of hartfhorn, opiate confec-
              C                      tion, 
26         BLA          BLO
  tion, or other antidote.  For the rattlefnake's
  bite, give a fpoonful or two of the juices-of
  plantain and horehound, and apply a tobac-
  co leaf fteeped in rum to the part.
          BLADDER inflamed.
 Symptoms. Acute burning pain, and tenfion in
  the part; with fever, frequent inclination to
  go to (tool, and conftant defire, to make water.
 Treatment.   As directed for kidneys infamed.
         BLEEDING external.
 Apply the flyptics mentioned under that word.
  Bleed.at- the arm, purge, and give cooling
  medicines if neceffary. Keep the patient cool.
        BLEEDING at the nose.
 Treat as in Bleeding external; vinegar, or other
  ftyptic, may alfo be fnuffed up the noitrils, or
  cotton plugs, dipped in them, put up. The
  patient in this cafe alfo muft be kept  cool.
        BLIGHT.   See Eryfpdas.
   BLOOD, SPITTING OF, OR H/£MOPT0E.
 Symptoms.   A cough and fhort refpiration at-
  tend.  If the blood coughed up appear flor-
  id, liquid, and frothy, efpecially if the patient
  be  confumptive, it  indicates a  rupture of
  fome veffel in the lungs ; and is attended with
  pain if occailoned by a  fall, or bruife.
1 natment.  Bleeding, laxatives, and ftyptics; as
  alum, bark, compound tincture of benjamin,
                                     nitre, 
BLO
BOL
27
 nitre, and  occasionally an opiate ; the feet
 bathed in  warm water ; a (lender cooling;
 diet, and no exercife.  A table fpoonful of
 fine fait, taken in a dry form, has been found
 extremely  efficacious.
          BLOOD, VOMITING OF.
Symptoms. There is no cough when the blood
 comes from the ftomach ; a fenfe of weight
 and oppreffion  precedes the vomiting ;  the
 ftomach is often diftended ; the blood of a
 darker colour than in an htemoptoe.
Treatment.   As in the preceding cafe.  Small
 dofes of vitriolated iron calcined are effica-
* clous in  this, and alfo in a rupture of a vef-
 fel in the  inteftines, and a confequent  dif-
 charge of blood by flool.
                  BILES,
Treatment. They are to be ripened with proper
 poultices ;  opened, digefted with ointment of
 yellow refin, &c. and healed with cerate of
 calamine, or the like.   If fungous flefh  ap-
 pear, deftroy it with red nitrated quickfilver,
 or other proper efcarotic.  Alteratives and
 eduleorants, with corroborants, if neceffary,
 fhould be given internally.
             BOLE, French.
Abforbent, aftringent; By to 3ij- Externally
 deficcative.
                                BORAX. 
28         BOR          BUC

                BORAX,
Emmenagogue, ftimulant, diuretic ; gr. v, or
 x. to 9ij.   Externally to aphthae.
          BREASTS inflamed.
Symptoms.   A few days after delivery  the
 bieafts fometimes feel uneafy,  or painful,
 and fwell, the milk ftagnating.
Treatment.  Gentle purges and cooling diapho-
 retics.   Apply the plafter of litharge, or of
 foaD, warm cloths, or the like, to the parts,
' and to the axilhe.  If inflammation, foment,
 and poultice with bread and milk. If fuppu?
 ration, continue to poultice, and let it break
 of itfelf;  after which, digeft with poultices
 or otherwife, and cicatrize.
If fever appear during the inflammation, treat
 it as directed for fever (milk.)
If  the breafts be  merely hard, fomentations,
 poultices, and oil rubbed over them, are belt.
             BROOKLIME,
Antifeptic.
         BROOM, top  and seed.
Aperient, diuretic ; 5fs. to  5ifs.   Extract
 of the top, 3fs. to 3j«
        BRUISES.  See Covtufnns.
 BUBO.   See Venereal D'feafe and Abfcefs.
              BUCKBEAN.
Tonic, aperient; of the infufion a pint a day.
                                  BUCK- 
BUC           CAN
         BUCKTHORN, berry.
Cathartic ; frefh about xx. in number, dry 3j:
  of the juice §j.   Syrup of.  §j. to §iij.
           BURDOCK, root.
Diuretic, fudorific ; 3j«
          BURNS.  See Scalds,
        CACHEXY.   See Dropfy.
Treatment. Acetated kali, fquills or other diu-
 retics ;  cathartics ; then chalybeates, bark,
 Sec. with proper exercife.
              CALAMINE.
Aftringent.   In collyriums for inflamed eyes.
  Cerate of.  Epulotic.
     CALAMUS  AROMATICUS.
Aromatic ; gr. v. to 9j.
         CAMOMILE, flowers.
Stomachic, tonic, antifeptic ; gr. v. to 3fs.
 Some recommend a cold infufion. Extract
 of.  9j. to  9ij.
              CAMPHOR.
Diaphoretic, diuretic, antifpafmodic ; gr. iij.
 to 3fs. or more.  Liniment of.  Stimulant.
 In local pains, chiefly of the head.
               CANCER.
Symptoms. A round unequal tumour, of a livid
 colour, furrounded with varicofe veffels, and
           c 2                     feated 
3°
CAN
 feated in the glandular parts of the body.
 Some cancers are fixed, others  moveable ;
 fome pale,  others red and inflamed ;  fome-
 times they remain harmlefs for years, at oth-
 ers they increafe haftily, ulcerate, difcharge a
 fetid fanious ichor, and foon prove mortal.
Treatment. Bleeding ; in cafe of inflammation,
 cooling  laxatives ; fait water, extract of hem-
 Jock, magnefia,foap,or the like, in fmall dofes
 as alteratives ; muriated barytes, the deadly
 nightfhade, and arfenic, have alfo been found
 ferviceable.  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  alfo the herb called clivers.  Calm-
 nefs of mind and proper regimen muft be ob-
 ferved ;  but extirpation with the knife, where
 it  can be done, is, the only certain- remedy.
 For cancer in the womb, fee womb.
          CANELLA ALBA.
Aromatic, ftimulant; By to 3ij.

           CANTHARIDES.
Analeptic, diuretic ; gr. ^ to  gr. ij.  Tinc-
 ture of.  The fame ; gt. x. to xx.   Ce-
 rate of.   for  railing or  keeping open
 blifters.    OiiiT^EMT  of.    For perpetual
                                   blifters. 
          CAR           CAS        31

 blifters.  Plaster  of.   For  railing blis-
 ters.
           CARAWAY, seed.
Carminative ; 9fs. to 3fs. or in infufion. Es-
 sential oil of, gt. i. to iij.   This is faid
 by fome to be alfo diuretic,  Spirit of.
 3j. to Siij,
       CARDAMOMS, LESSER.
Carminative ; gr. iij. to 9fs.  Tincture of.
 3fs.  to  3ij-  Compound.  Stomachic ; 3j*
 to 5fs.
    CARDIALGIA.   See Heart-burn.
           CARMINATIVES.
Anifeeds, caraway, leffer cardamoms, corian-
 der, fennel, juniper, rofemary, fpirits of ni-
 trous and vitriolic gsther, Aromatics.
        CARROT, WILD, seed.
Stimulant, diuretic ;  9j. to 9ij. in infufion.
       CARUNCLES.  See Urine.
                CARUS.
Treatment as in the apoplexy, of which this is
 only a flighter degree.
         CASCARILLA, bark.
Aromatic, tonic ; 9j. to 3j-   Extract of.
  Bj. to 3fs-  Tincture of.  5j- to 3ij-
    CASSIA FISTULARIS, fruit.
Laxative ; 3ij. to §ij. of the pulp.' Electu-
  ary of.  3ij° to BIj-                CAS- 
%%        CAS           CAT

         CASTOR, RUSSIAN,
Nervous, antifpafmodic, emmenagogue ;  gr,
  iv. to 9j.   Tincture of.   3fs« to 3ij«
            CASTOR OIL.
Laxative; %{s. to §j. alfo nephritic and icteric,
             CATALEPSY.
Symptoms.   Sudden lofs of fenfe and motion,
 the limbs retaining any pofture  into which
 they are  put.
Treatment.  Antifpafmodics, ftomachics, bark,
  and opiates.
    CATARRH.   See Cold and Cough.
         CATECHU, the resin.
Aftringent; 9fs. to 3fs.  Tincture of.  3j,
  to 3iij.
            CATHARTICS.
Stimulant. Elaterium,gamboge,fcammony,co«
 locynth,  buckthorn, elder, aloes, jalap, frefh
 juice of oris root.   Refrigeranti   Vitriolated
 and tartarifed natron; vitriolated, tartarifed,
 and acetated kali; cryftals of tartar, common
 fait, purging mineral waters, flowers of ful-
 phur, caffia fiftularis, tamarinds, prunes.  Af-
 tringent.  Rhubarb, rattlefnake-root, damafk
 rofe, violet, fenna.  Emollient.  Caftor oil, oil
 of almonds, foap,manna, honey, fugar.  Nar-
 cotir. Fox-glove, meadow-faffron, white and
 black hellebore, hedge-hyffop, tobacco.
                                  CAUS- 
          CAU           CHI        33

              CAUSTICS.
Pure kali, lime with pure kali, nitrated filver,
  muriated antimonv, mineral acids.
     CENTAURY', LESSER, tops.
Tonic ; 9j. to 3j-
            CEPHALICS.
Compound fpirit of ammonia, lavender, rofe-
 mary, nervous medicines.
              CERUSSE.
Externally cooling, aftringent.  Acetated.
 The fame.   Ointment  of.  The fame.
 Compound powder  of  cerusse.  The
 fame.  Acet. Cer. has been given internally,
 from gr. fs. to gr. iij.
               CHALK.
Abforbent, cardialgic; 9j. to 3j. Compound
 powder of. . The fame, alfo aftringent;  E)j.
 to 3j«—with opium.   43{  gr.  contain i
 of opium.  Troches of.  Chiefly for  the
 heart-burn.
      CHICKEN-POX.  See Pox.
            CHILBLAINS.
If not broken, bathe them with camphorated
 fpirit, oil of turpentine, urine, brine, melted
 fait butter, or rub them with fnow.  If they
 break, drefs them with warm digeftives, and
 afterwards with the cerate of calamine,
                               CHILD- 
CHI            CHO
            CHILD-BIRTH.
If there be aprofufe difcharge of thelochia, give
 cooling medicines and acids.  If the lochia
 be flopped,clyfters,laxatives, and antimonials
 in naufeating dofes; but be cautious of bleed-
 ing. If a puerperal, or milk fever, treat them
 as uuder thofe articles.  After delivery, and
 the afterbirth, fpermaceti, with  gentle opi-
 ates ; and, if neceffary, caftor, or other uterine
 remedy.  Keep the  body open, and let ftools
 be procured the fecond or third day after de*
 livery at fartheft.
  CHLOROSIS,   See Menfes olflrucled,
         CHOLERA MORBUS.
Symptoms. Violent vomiting and loofenefs,from
 bile abounding in the ftomach and bowels j
 (harp pains, gripings, and flatulency ; thirft,
 heat, anxiety, with quick and unequal pulfe ;
 cold fweats, and at length fyncope, and coldf
 nefs in the extremities.  Chiefly attacks young
 perfons, and in the fummer and autumn.
Treatment.  Large  and frequent draughts of
 chicken broth, without fait,  to the quantity
 of a gallon or two ;  and clyfters of the fame
 fhould be continually injected.   If the vom-
 iting continue, give an infufion of oat bread,
 toafted brown, in water ; afterwards cinna-
 mon water,  aromatic confection,  columbo
                                     root, 
CIN         CLO
o5
 root, compound powder of chalk, or the like,
 with opium.  An emetic may be proper, as
 alfo ripe fruit, &c.  See Colic, bilious.
        CINCHONA, THE BARK.
Tonic, febrifuge, antifeptic, ftomachic ; 9j. to
 3j. or more, feveral times a day.   The red
 bark is the fpecies that ought to be preferred.
 Decoction  of.  jij.  or  upwards.  Ex-
 tract of, and  extract  of with the
 resin. 9j. or more.   Tincture of, and
 compound tincture  of.   3j« to Bfs.  or
 more.  Ammoniated  tincture of. 3fs-
 to 3j« or more.
             CINNABAR.
Alterative, vermifuge; gr. iij. to 9j.
             CINNAMON.
Aromatic,carminative,aftringent; 9fs. to 3fs.
 Tincture  of.  3j« to 3ij-   Compound.
 3fs. to 3ifs.   Spirit of.  Cordial ; 3j- to
 3iij.   Water of.   §j. to |ij.
         CINQUEFOIL, root.
Tonic ; 3fs. to  3ij.
              cloves!
Aromatic, ftimulant; gr. v. to 9j.
       CLOVE-JULY-FLOWER.
Aromatic, tonic.
COCKI- 
36        COG           COL
             COCHINEAL.
Cordial, fudorific.   Now  chiefly ufed aS a
 colouring drug;
          CCELIAC PASSION;
Symptoms*.  A purging or difcharge of aliment
 indigefted, and fomewhat like chyle, with
 wafting of the body.
Treatment.  An emetic ; ftomachic, aftringent,
 and warm tonic remedies ; as bitters, extracl
 of logwood, chalk, opiate confection, opium,
 Sec.  with proper diet.
          COLD and COUGH.
Symptoms well known.  In phlegmatic habits,
 the cough is moift ; and in tlie hypochondri-
 ac and fc'Orbutic, dry*
Treatment. Gentle and regular warmth; bleed-
 ing, if nothing forbid ; and efpecially if a fe-
 ver, or pain in the breaft, &c. arife.  Oily, or
 fpermaceti medicines, or other pectorals, with
 opiates.  If coftive, proper laxatives ; and if
 the ftomach be loaded with phlegm, an emet-
 ic. Where greafy medicines difagree, give mu-
 cilages of linfeed,tragacanth,or quince feeds,
 fquills, lozenges of liquorice,  Sec.  Blifters
 are very efficacious, as are alfo gentle fudorif-
 ics repeatedly taken, with diluents and faline
 febrifuges, when the perfpiration is obftruct-
 ed, and fever appears.
                                  COLIC, 
COL
37
          ,  COLIC, bilious.
Symptoms.  An acute pain, and obftruction in
 the inteftines ; accompanied with a vomiting
 of yellow  or greenifh bile.   A  bitter tafte
 in the mouth, with  great heat.  The pain
 fometimes fixed about the region of the  na^
 vel, fometimes all over the abdomen, at other
 times fhifting from one part to another.   A
 pulfation and cold are likewife felt in the bel-
 ly. Urine little or none.  Frequently hoarfe-
 nefs, with thirft and fever.   Moft prevalent
 in fummer..
Treatment.  Bleed, and give an emetic, with a
 large quantity of infufion of camomile, or  the
 like, to work it off ;  then give cathartics
 (pills chiefly, or caftor oil) with opium, and
 opening emollient clyfters.  If thefe fail, put
 the patient into the warm bath.  If the vomit-
 ing continue, faline draught-:, with  tincture
 of opium.  In this  cafe  columbo  root ha3
 been particularly ufeful.  Pills of gr. fs.  or
 gr. j.  of ciude opium are moft powerful in
 removing pa>n and  fpafm,  and enable the
 cathartics to take the better effect.

            COLIC, hysteric.

Symptoms. This is a difeafe to which women of
 lax and grofs habits, and of irritable difpofi-
 tions, chiefly are fubject.  It begins  with  vi-
            D                       dent 
33
COL
 olent pain in the region of the ftcmach, much
 green and yellow matter isvomited,and great
 lownefs of fpirits fucceeds ; the pain goes of
 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, unlefs
 plethora or coftivenefs indicate ;  clear the
 ftomach with warm wrater, camomile tea, &c.
 then give a carminative antifpafmodic, with
 opium, (as caftor, aromatic confection,opiate
 confection) which may beoccafionallyrepeat-
 ed.  Recruit the ftrength with bark, bitters,
 air, exercife, chalybeates, &c.  This diforder
 in men is called the Hypochondriac CJL; and
 fliould be treated in like manner.
         COLIC,  inflammatory,
    or inflammation  of the bowels.

Symptoms. A vehement burning fixed pain is
 felt in the parts moft affected, with heat of the
 whole  body, quick pulfe, lofs of ftrength,
 anxiety and reftlefsnefs.
Treatment.  Bleed largely, and repeat it if ne-
 ceffary, and the pulfe will bear it ; procure
 ftools with foft mild cathartics, as caftor oil,
 oily mixtures with manna, and tartarifed ka-
 li, or the like ; or if thefe will not ftay, with
                                       pills 
COL
39
 pills of the comp. cxt. of colocynth and opi-
 um ; emollient clyfters fhould be frequently
 given,  and foft emollient liquids drunk : the
 bowels fhould be fomented, bladders of wa-
 ter, bags of fait or oats heated, the fkins of
 animals juft killed applied to the part ; and
 the warm bath fhould be prefcribed, if theft-
 prove ineffectual.  In cafe of violent vomit-
 ing, give the faline draughts in the act of ef-
 fervsfcence ; and the pain and fpafm, if vio-
 lent, may be abated  with pills of crude opi-
 um ; blifters may be applied to the part  af-
 fected.  The fumes of tobacco may be thrown
 up the fundament, if all other cathartics fail;
 or give quickfilver.
           COLIC,  NERVOUS,
CALLED ALSO THE DEVONSHIRE COLIC, COLIC
 OF POICTIERS, DRY  GRIPES,  AND  THE DRY
 BELLY-ACHE.
Symptoms.   It begins with a fenfe of weight or
 pain at the pit of the  ftomach, attended with
 lofs of appetite, yellcwnefs in the counte-
 nance, a flight naufea,and coftivenefs; a vom-
 iting of acrid flime, and green bile, fucceeds ;
 the pain often defcends to the navel, fhooting
 thence to each fide, with great violence ; the
 inteftines feem drawn to the fpine, with con-
 vulfive fpafms ; the  pain continues without
 remiffion for feveral hours together; pulfe as
                                        in 
4°
COL
 in health; no fever, but rather lownefs; when
 at length the pain abates, an odd tingling is
 felt along the fpine of the back, which ex-
 tending to the legs and arms, they become
 weak and paralytic.
Treatment. Vomit feveraltimeswithwarm cam-
 omile tea, then give opium in pills or other-
 wife, as alfo by clyfter ; the pain and tenfion
 being removed by thefe, give gentle cathar-
 tics, fuch as caftor oil, infuf. of fen. with falts,
 and the like : laxative clyfters may alfo be
 prefcribed; bleed, if the pulfe be high; ftools
 being procured, an anodyne, carminative, and
 antifpafmodic may be given, as camphor, va-
 lerian, caftor, aromatic  confection, or the like,
 with opium, if the pain return, have recourfe
 3gain to opium pills ; if paralytic fymptoms
 come on, embrocate the limbs and fpine with
 lin. of ammonia, camphor, fpirit,  or other
 warm liniment.   If co'nvulfions, give mufk
 with opium.   After the diforder, bark, with
 bitters'and rhubarb, fhould be ordered ; to-
 gether with a light, but nutritive diet. Flan-
 nel may alfo be worn round the waift.
Painters and glaziers, who  are fubject to this
 diforder on account of the lead ufed in their
 work, rely on burnt gin, which I have feen
 them take with furpvifing fuccefs. A dofe or
 two of alum, of Dj. each, have been found to
 be a powerful remedy.            COLICs 
COL
4*
      COLIC, STONE, OR NEPHRITIS.
Symptoms.  The colic which fometimes arifeth
 from the ftone, may be known from the other
 kinds by the following figns : there is a fix-
 ed pain in the kidney, which is propagated to
 the genitals ;  ftools  afford prefent relief  in
 other colics, but not in this ; after eating, the
 pain is  increafed  in others, but  leffened  in
 this ; in others, the urine is thicker in the be-
 ginning than afterwards, but in this, it is  at
 firft  clear and thin, and afterwards lets fall
 gravel, or other fediment.
Treatment. Turpentine clyfters are given with
 good effect ; foap with  opium, or other ne-
 phritic  anodyne ; care  alfo  being taken  to
 keep the body open.  But for more on this
 head, fee the article STONE.
              COLIC WIND.
Symptoms.  A wandering pain in  the bowels,
 with rumblings, which  abate on the expul-
 fion  of air; the pain is  not increafed by
 preffure ; thirft not extraordinary ; and the
 pulfe but little difturbed.
Treatment.  Bleed, if the patient can bear it ;
 ftools muft be procured by faline or other ca-
 thartics, and emollient clyfters ;  previous  to
 which, an emetic may alfo be given, if judged
 neceffary ; fomentations, or bladders of hot
 water,  may  be applied to the beily ; as may
           D 2                    likewife 
COL           CON
 likewife anodyne, fpirituous, and  aromatic
 embrocations, as the foap liniment with opi-
 um and oil of mint, or the like.  A paffage
 being procured, carminatives joined with
 opium may be adminiftered.
  COLICA meconialis.   See  Meconium.
    COLOCYNTH, pith  of the fruit.
Cathartic ;  gr. viij.  to  xij.  Compound ex-
  tract cf.   Gr. xv.  to 9ij.
             COLTSFOOT.
Obtunding, tonic.
           COLUMBO, root.
Tonic, ftomachic, antifeptic, antiemetic ; 3fs.
  to 3ij-  Tincture of.  gfs. to 3y.
           COMA.  See  Carus.
     CONFECTION,  AROMATIC.
Cordial, carminative ; 9fs. to 3j.
        CONFCTION, OPIATE.
Alexipharmic, anodyne ; Bis. to E)ij.
CONSUMPTION,  nervous.  See Atrophy,
   CONSUMPTION, PULMONARY,  OR
                PHTHISIS.
Symptoms. Habitual fever; waftingof all parts
 of the body • dry cough ; quick fmall pulfe;
 moderate heat ; laffitud- : faintnefs ; night
 i'.veats ; flying pains and Hitches'; uueai'mefs
                                   about 
CON
43
 about the diaphragm and breafts; the expec-
 torated matter purulent; fometimes bloody
 and offenfive, with white round  lumps.   If
 the fymptoms be violent, a fpitting of blood
 foon follows, which is thin, florid and frothy ;
 but it afterwards becomes paler, and the dif-
 charge changes at length into pus. Towards
 the end of the difeafe a diarrhoea frequently
 comes on, and the legs are apt to fwell.  CT-
 cers, or tubercles in the lungs, are the caufe.
 In general the complexion is florid, and the
 teeth f-und, and of a milky whitenefs more
 or lefs opaque.
Treatmert. At the beginning, whilft fymptoms
 of inflammation occur, bleed in fmall quanti-
 ty, and repeat it if neceffary, giving nitre, and
 purfuing the antiphlogiftic regimen. Ipeca-
 cuanha in fmall dofes, or decoction of feneka
 root, is fometimes ufeful.  Iffues or fetons are
 frequently ferviceable, or a perpetual blifyer
 at the pit of the ftomach. But the antiphlo-
 giftic  plan muft be purfued  no  longer than
 the inflammatory ftage continues. After that
 has fubfided regard muft be had to ftrength-
 ening the fyftem by the bark, chalybeates, &c.
 Opiates may be adminiftered at night, if ne-
 ceffary, to appeafe the cough, and procure reft.
 Myrrh given to 3'ij- or 3iy- a day, with cam-
 phor and nitre, has been found an efficacious
                                  remedy 
44
CON
 remedy by fome: others have recommended
 buryingthe patient up to the chin in frefh dug
 earth for fome time.  For fweats give the
 vitriolic acid; or let a calico waiftcoat, fteep-
 ed in a ftrong decoction of bark, well dried,
 and renewed daily, be  worn  next the  fkin,
 Change of air, and gentle exercife are good:
 the body fliould be guarded againft cold ;
 and the diet be light, mild, and nutritive ; as
 jellies, broths, milk, butter-milk,  Sec.  Dr.
 Simmons's  excellent treatife on this fubjecl
 may be confulted.
     "'  CONTRAYERVA,  root.
Tonic, ftimulant,  diaphoretic ; gr. v. to B}.
 or more.  Compound  powder of.  Siidp-
 rific ; 9j. to 5j«
             CONTUSIONS.
Treatment. Bathe the part with  vinegar, lin. of
 foap, or of ammonia, water of acetated am-
 monia,  or arquebufade ;  and, if neceffary,
 apply a poultice of oatmeal and vinegar.  If
 there be inflammation, bleed, and  purge, ufe
 emollient fomentations and cataplafms.  If
 fuppuration  appear, apply proper topical re-
 medies to forward it, and treat as in abfceffes.
            CONVULSIONS.
Symptoms. Involuntary contractions or fpafms
 pf die mufcles,and confequent motions of the
                                     parts 
COP           COR
  parts which theyferve/ Children, and women
  of delicate conftitutions, are moft fubject to
  this complaint.
 Treatment.   If a plethora be indicated, bleed ;
  if otherwife, avoid it;  blifters, laxatives, and
  emollient clyfters, if nothing forbid ; the ner-
  vous and antifpafmodic medicines, as afafceti-
  ds, caftor, camphor, mufk, volatile falts, ani-
  mal oil, with opium, if neceffary. If the bow-
  els be convulfed, opium may be added to the
  clyfters alfo.  The  parts may be rubbed ex-
  ternally with fome  warm anodyne embroca-
  tion : free air fhould be allowed to the patient.
 In children, this complaint often proceeds from
  an acid in the prima? vice ; magnefia is then
  proper. Worm's may alfo occafion it; anthel-
  mintics are in this cafe to be given.  Blifters,
  and anodynes, ufed with caution, are good.
  Valerian, in very large dofes, both in powder
  and decoction, has cured violent convulfions,
  of a long  ftanding.  A fpafm of the oefbpha-
  gus, preventing  deglutition, has been cured
  by cataplafms of hemlock and henbane.

  COPPER, AMMONIATED, WATER
                   OF.
Externally deterfive.

             CORAL, RED.
Abforbent; B}. to. 3j.
                                   CORE 
46        COR           COU
          CORIANDER, seed.
Aromatic, ftimulant; B]. to 3j>
                 CORNS.
Cover them with litharge or other plafter, af-
 ter bathing them in warm water, and paring
 them as much as convenient away.   Large
 eafy flioes fhould be worn, and a little cotton
 may be laid over them, to prevent their being
 rubbed or preffed.  '
         CORROBORANTS.
Incraffants, and Tonics.
           COUGH,  HOOPING.
Symptoms.  It affects children; who by reafon
 that the phlegm is difficult of expectoration,
 ftrain violently to bring it up; with a whoop-
 ing noife, till they are almoft fuffocated and
 convulfed.
Treatment, If inflammatory fymptoms, or fever
 appear, bleed ; give fmall dofes of ipecac, or
 tartarifed antimony, to bring up the phlegm.
 Keep the body rather lax ; and prefcribe an-
 tifpafmodics: gentle fedatives of fyr. of white
 poppy are efficacious ; blifters, gentle fudo-
 rifics, and a fpare, thin, but nourifhing diet.
 Bark may be given, with caftor,  to fupport
 the patient's ftrength.  But change of air,
 frequently repeated, fometimes does wonders
 in  thefe cafes.
                                   COW, 
          COW          CUT        47

              COW-ITCH.
Anthelmintic.  The hairs covering the pods
  are given in fyrup or molaffes ; thofe of one
  pod a dofe.
           CRAB, THE CLAWS.
Abforbent;  B). to 3j«   Compound powder
  cf.  Thi; fame.
               CUBEBS.
Aromatic, ftimulant; gr. v. to B}.
      CUCKOW-PINT.  See Arum.
   CUCUMBER, WILD, fresh fruit.
Strongly purgative, ftimulant; gr. fs. to ij.
  or iij. of the dried fecule of the juice.
            CUMMIN, seed.
Stimulant, antifeptic ; By to 3j-   Poultice
  of.  The fame.  Plaster of.  Difcutient.
  CURRANT,  BLACK  and RED, the
                 FRUIT.
Cooling, antifeptic.  Inspissated juice  of
  the black.  In recent catarrhs, attended
  with flight fore throat.
      CUTANEOUS  DISEASES.
See the articles Itch, Scurvy and Tetters.
                CUTS.
Apply compound tincture of benjamin, after-
 wards drefs with  fome mild digeftive, and
                                    then 
48        DAN           DEA

  then cicatrize.  If an artery be wounded, it
  muft be taken up, or the fponge tent applied.
  See Wounds.
          DANCE,  St. Vitus's:
Symptoms.  Convulfions of the legs, arms, and
  head ; inarticulate fpeech, and lolling out of
  the  tongue ; drawing  one leg after, like  an
  ideot; with variety of odd and ridiculous ge[-
  tures.   Chiefly affects' the youthful.
Treatment.   Emetics,  cathartics, valerian roc<t
  in large quantities ; bark, chalybeates, fea-
  bathing ;  electricity, millepedes, and quick-
  filver with fulphur, liave been of ufe; blifters
  and bleeding, if judged neceffary.  If worms
  be the caufe, give anthelmintics.
     DANDELION, root and herb.
Aperient, diuretic ; Sifs. to siv. of the expreff-
  ed juice.
               DEAFNESS. .
Treatment.  If it proceed  from hardened wax,
  fyringe the ears with warm water, or foap and
  water,  or apply a tent made of the frefh pith
  of a cabbage ftalk.  If the wax be deficient,
  drop in oil of almonds, with a little oil of rofe-
  mary,  or  the like.   If cold be the caufe,
  warmth) the remedies ufed againft colds, and
  fyringing  with fome warm foft liquid.  If it
  be nervous give the nervous medicines, bark,
  &c.  and apply blifters.  Electricity has been
                                     found 
           DEL           DIA        40
»
 found ufeful.  If inflammation, bleed, purge,
 blifter, foment,  poultice,  and prefcribe the
 pediluvia.  If there be ulcers, ufe injections,
 with tinct. of myrrh, honey, &c.   If infects
 be in the ear, fill the meatus with warm oil
 or water,  or throw, in the  fumes of tobacco.
      DELIVERY.    See Child-birth.
       D EXT ITIO N.   See Teething.
            DETERGENTS.
Verdegris,  water of ammoniated copper, tinc-
 ture of myrrh, fimple oxymel, honey of roles;
 honey, turpentine.
         DIABETES. See Urine:
    DIAPHORETICS.   See Sudorifics.
              DIARRHCEA.
Symptoms. A purging, without much ficknefd
 or pain ; fucceeded by  lofs of appetite ; and
 fometimes naufea, fever, with weak pulfe, dry
 fkin, and thirft. ,
Treatment. If it proceed from any thing offen-
 five in the bowels, give rhubarb firft, either in
 powder  or tincture';' and  afterwards aflrin-
 gents and abforbents, as chalk mixture, com-
 pound powder of chalk, extract of logwood,
 columbo root, &c. with or  without opium as
 you fee neceffary.  Starch  clyfters, with opi-
 um, and bleeding, if requifite, may be pre-
 scribed.
           E                           If 
DIG            DTS
If Aveaknefs of the bowels and indigeftion 6c-
 cafion the complaint,  the bitters, bark, or
 chalybeates.  If obftructed perfpiration, gen*
 tie fudorifics fhould be interpofed.
Sometimes a purging is an effort of nature, to
 relieve the conftitution from offending mat-
 ters, or it is critical.   You muft be careful
 to diftinguifh in thefe cafes', as checking the
 purging may be followed by a fever, or other
 bad confequences.
In diarrhoeas, vegetableandaceffant diet fliould
 be refrained from ;  decoct, of hartfhom is
 beft for common drink, and rice victuals for
 food.   Wnen purgings proceed  from a pu-
 trefcent caufe, ripe fruits and antifeptics are
 proper.
             DIGESTIVES.
Turpentine ;  ointment of gum elemi, yellow
 refm,  and tar ;  plafter of wax.
              DILL,  seed.
Stimulant, flightly aromatic ; ${s. to 3j«  Wa-
 ter of.   To infants, 3j-
            DISCUTIENTS.
Liniment of ammonia, all ointments and plaf-
 ters with quickfilver,fal ammoniac, camphor,
 liniment and plafter of foap, hemlock, plafter
 of cummin, wormwood in fomentations, de-
 coction for fomentation, electricity.
                                    DIU- 
DIU
DRO
5*
              DIURETICS.
Stimulant.  Salt of amber, oil of turpentine, turr
 pentine, balfams of Canada and capivi, juni-
 per, wild carrot,  bi-ooni, artichoke,  pariLy,
 ■meadow-faffron, fennel, pareira brava, fquiiJ,
 foap, millepedes^ cantharides.  Refrigerant.
 Kali, nitre, acetated  kali,  fpirits of nitrous
 and vitriolic sether.  Diluent. Watery liquor:,
 mineral waters.  Narcotic. Fox-glove, tobac-
 co, woody nightfhade, dandelion.
          DRAGON'S-BLOOD.
Tonic ; E)fs. to 3's.
                DROPSY.
Symptoms.   A collection of water or ferum in
 fome part of the body.  Before  the Jifoider
 is perfectly, formed it is called Cachexy; when
 the lymph  is accumulated  in  the  ceilulav
 membrane it is called Awfarea,or Leucophleg-
 matia; when there is a collection of water in
 the abdomen, it is termed Afc'.tes; if in the
 head, Hydrocephalus; if in  the breaft, Hy-
 drops pectoris; if in the womb, Hydrops uteri;
 and if in the fcrotum, Hydrocde.
In common dropfies the legs ufually fv.-ell, and
 a pit remains for fome time after p. effing the
 flefh with the finger; the appetite abates; the
 face either bloats or becomes thin ;:nd pale;
 little urine is made ; and third, flow {ever,
 fhortnefs of breath, laffitude and heavinefs,
                                    attend. 
t'2
DRO
 attend.  Thefe fymptoms obtain efpecially in
 the anafarca and aTcites.   In the hydroce-
 phalus, convulfions, fquinting, fhunning the
 light, opening of the futures, and vomiting
 of bile,' commonly occur, efpecially if the
 difeafe be far advanced.
Treatment. In the Anafarca and Afcites, purges
 with jalap, fcammoriy, calomel, gamboge, e-
 laterium, or the like, twice or thrice a week.
 Squills, tinct.of cantharid. prepared kali, or
 acetated kali, with bitter  infufion.  Emetic^
 and fudorifics, blifters and fcarifications, pre-
 scribed with due caution, have  often  goo4
 effect, otherwife they may do harm.   Bark
 may be given if the ftrength flag, or confump-
 tive fymptoms appear. Weak liquids  of all
 kinds ufed to  be  avoided, but are now al-
 lowed freely with fuccefs, efpecially after the
 draftic purges.  Cry Hals of tartar, given in
 large quantity, have had good effect.  Gum
 puaiacum  has alfo been recommended.  Of
 o
 late fox-glove has been much celebrated; and
 infufion of tobacco has been remarkably effi-
 cacious. In Germany the deadly nightfhade
 js faid to have been very fuccefsful. In this
 complaint  bread is generally ordered to be
 toafted,  and fleih  to be  baked,  roafted or
 broiled.  Smoking is of great ufe, and mill-
 iard feeds  taken whole have  often been of
 Service.                                 If 
DRO                5$
Jf die diforder arife from the too copious ufe
 of weak liquids, or obftructed perfpiration, fu-
 dorifics are much to be depended upon.  If
 from drunkennefs ; riding on horfeback mid
 jhe ufe of wine, or rather geneva diluted with
 water, in moderate quantity, will be ufeful.
 If from a confumptive tendency ; diuretics,
 joined with corroborants.  Ir after great lofs
 cf blood, or from tedious fevers ;  cathartics
 fhould not be ufed too frecly,but chalybeates,
 bark, and bitters fhould be chiefly relied on.
 In the Afcites, tapping muft be performed, if
 the methods above recommended fail.
In Drcpfy ofthebreafl,  diuretics aie chiefly to
 be employed, cathartics only  occafionally.
 Blifters applied below the breaft,  and even
 on the thighs or legs, and kept open, are al-
 fo very effectual.
In the Hydrocephalus intern us, afalivation exci-
 ted by mercury has cf late been recommend-
 ed, but its efficacy is  not  yet clearly  ascer-
 tained ; purges may be given, and medicines
 of the carminative and antifpafmodic kind.
 Blifters, fetons, and  iffues, fhould  alfo be
 prefcribed.
In the Dropfy of the womb, emetics, ftimulating
 clyfters,and occafionally cathartics; diuretic,
 attenuant, and refolvent medicines fhould be
 given ; and fomentations and vapour  baths
 advifed.        e 2                      In 
DRY           DYS
In the Hydrocele, let out the water with the tro-
 car at the bottom part of the fcrotum,and in-
 ject wine to produce adhefive inflammation.
 If pure wine  give  too much pain, dilute it
 with w«u:cr ; if it do not excite fufncient in-
 flammation, acuate  it with fpirit. When wa-
 ter is contained in the cellular membrane,
 treat it as an Anafarca.
   DRY  GRIPES,  or dry belly-ache.
            See Colic, Nervous.
    DYSENTERY, or bloody-flux.
Sy.vpioms.  A difcharge of mucus, blood, and
 purulent matter by ftool ; violent gripings ;
 para in the loins, and anus ; tenefmus,  and
 iever.
Treatment. A rhubarb, or other gentle purge,
 and, after proper evacuation, chalk mixture
 with fpermaceti, and an opiate. Avoid bleed-
 ing, unlefs the pulfe be hard, full,and ftrong;
 and give ftarch clyfters with opium and aflrin-
 gents ; columbo root, and bolufes of bees wax
 and fpermaceti, with compound powder of
 chalk, are efficach<i;s.  Small dofes (a grain
 pr two) of ipecac, have often fucceeded. Su-
 dorifics  are fometimes of ufe, by promoting
 a determination to the furface of the body.
 Emollient fomentations and balfamic clyfters
 with opium, will belt remove the tenefmus.
The diet as in the diarrhoea.  Milk with mut-
                                       ton 
DYS           ELE
 ton fuet boiled in it, and the fat afterwards
 taken off, is efteemed excellent.
        DYSURIA.  See  Urine.
       EAR-ACHE.  See Deafnefs.
  ELATERIUM.   See Cucumber, Wild.
               ELDER,
   interior bark, flower, and berry.
Bark ftrongly emetic and pargative; §fs.tolj.
i of the expreffed juice : fiower and berry lax-
 ative.  Inspissated juice of the berry.
 Diuretic, laxative, fudorific ;  3j> to  Sj.  cr
 more.  Ointment of.  Cooling, emollient.
        ELECAMPANE,  root.
Aromatic, ftimulant ; 3j- to 3ij-
           ELECTRICITY
Has been  found beneficial in  rheumatifm,
 gout, deafnefs, tooth-ache, fwellings nctfup-
 purated, inflammations,  gutta ferena,  fiftula
 lachrymalis, palfy, ulcers, cutaneous erup-
 tions, nervous head-ache, ague,  fuppreffion
 of the menfes, St. Vitus's dance, and con-
 tractions of the mufcles.   It fhould be appli-
 ed by directing»a ftream of the fluid  to the
 part.  Shocks in general fhould be avoided,
 or be at moft very flight.
             ELEMI, gum.
Stimulant.  In ointments.  Compound oint-
 ment of.  Digeftive.
                                   TTT VT
                                   ^-.JLJi'l, 
S6         ELM           EMS

            ELM, INNER BARK.
Tonic, aperient.  Decoction of.  ftfs. to Itj,
               EMETICS.
Irritating. Blue vitriol, vitriolated and calcinT
 ed zinc, vitriolated quickfilver, titillation of
 the fauces.  Heating.  Muftard, horfe-radifh,
 bleffed thiftle, camomile.  Naufeating.  An-
 timonials, fquill,  ipecacuanha, elder bark,
 warm water.  Narcotic.  Tobapco, fox-glove,
 white hellebore.
           EMMENAGOGUES.
Iron, mercurials, antimonials, black hellebore,
 favine,  madder, horehound, pills of gum,
 aloes, myrrh, cantharides, borax, rectified oil
 of amber, effential oil of juniper, garlic, horfe-
 radifh, electricity, compreffion of the femoral
 arteries.
             EMOLLIENTS.
Fxpreffed  oils, lard, fpermaceti, mucilages,
 mallow, marfh-mallow, coltsfoot, fenugreek,
 figs, raifins, liquorice, fv.eet almonds, barley,
 warm vapour, the warm bath.
               EMPYEMA.
Symptoms. An enlargement of the cayity of the
 thorax,  and cedematous  fulnefs of the fkin
 and flefh of one fide thereof; dry cough, and
 difficult breathing.  It  arifeth from matter
 formed, and lying loofe  in the thorax.
                                  Treatment, 
EPI                 57
Treatment, may be much like that prefcribed in
 the Vomica.   Medicines which promote ab-
 forption,  and  blifters, may alfo be  ufeful.
 But letting out the matter, where it can con-
 veniently be done, is the belt cure.
               EPILEPSY.
Symptoms. Languid pulfe, pale countenance,and
 afterwards great pain irt the head, with ftupor
 and drowfinefs, fometimes precede the fit;
 though it often comes on without thefe pre-
 vious fymptoms. The patient falls down fud-
 denly, gnafhes the teeth, froths at the mouth,
 ufes manydifagreeable gefticulations and dis-
 tortions, and fometimes difcharges inyolun*
 tarily by ftool  and urine.
Treatment. If the veffels be full, bleed ; emet-
 ics and laxatives are proper ; warm, nervous,
 antifpafmodic, and attenuating remedies, as
 caftor, valerian, afafoetida, cinnabar,  animal
 oil, fait of hartfhorn, &c. fliould be directed.
 Blifters kept open, and  fetons, are very, fer-
 viceable; flowers of zinc have fucceeded well,
 a grain or two at a dofe once pr twice a day.
 To reftore the ftrength  and prevent returns,
 the bark, or other corroborant, and the cold
 bath, with proper diet, air, and exercife.
             EPISPASTICS. '
Rubefacient.  Burgundy pitch, muftard, nettle,
 horfe-radifh, volatile alkalis, liniment of am-
                                    monia, 
$8        ERR           ESC
  mania, liniment of comphor, oil of foffil tar,
  effential oil of lavender, fef eating. Cantha-
  i ides, frefti inner bark of mezereon or fpurge-
  laurel.  Suppurative. Iffues, fetons, perpetual
  blifters.
               ERRHINES.
Sternutatory.  White and black hellebore, ipe*
  cacuanha.  Evacuant.   Vitriolated quickfil-
  ver, afarabacca, tobacco, Syrian herb-maftic,
  marjoram.
             ERYNGO, root.
Stimulant, diuretic.

             ERYSIPELAS.
Symptoms. The ufual precurfory fymptoms of a
  fever ;  the  face,  or other part's affected, in-
  flamed, with fcurf, pimples, and blifters, heat,
  rednefs, itching,  and fmarting ; drowfinefs
  and difficulty of breathing commonly attend.
Treatment.  If fymptoms indicate, bleed, and
  give proper lenitives, and cooling diaphoretic
  febrifuges.  Blifters, and cordial fudorifics, as
  camphor, contrayerva,  Sec. if low pulfe and
  malignancy require.  In die prefent pradtice
  the bark is chiefly relied on. The parts may be
  bathed with foftening fomentations,miik,&c.

            ESCHAROTICS.
Blue  vitriol,  red nitrated quickfilver, burnt
 alum, verdegris, Cauflics.
                                  EXPEC 
EXP
EYE
SV
          EXPECTORANTS.
Stimulant.  Ammoniacum, afafoetida, guaia*
 cum, elecampane, oris.  Naufeating.  Squill,
 garlic, tobacco, tar.   Antifpafmodic.  Warm
 bathing, aqueous vapour, vapour of fpirit of
 vitriolic jether, blifters.  Irritating.  Acid va-
 pours,  tobacco fmoke.
    EYES inflamed, or ophthalmia.
Inflammation of the outward coats of the eye,
 attended with pricking pain, heat, puliation,
 rednefs, fwelling, and fcalding tears.
Treatment. Bleed, purge, apply leeches to the
 temples, and  blilter  the back or behind the
 ears ; cooling febrifuges may alfo be given ;
 direct collyriums, with vitriolated zinc, ace-
 tated ceruffe, cr alum; or, if aflringents difa-"
 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 arife from mere
 weaknefs of the veffels aftringent  collyriums,
 or alum curd; and bark, or other tonics, may
 be given internally.   If Nervous, join vale-
 rian, caftor, or the like, with the bark.  If
 Scorbutic, or other humours attend, perpetual
 blifters or fetons,  with  mercurial, or other
 proper alteratives.   If Tubercles in the eye
 be the cauftS  anoint them with ointment of
 quickfilver, and give fmall dofes of calomel
 till they difperfc.                       For 
6o        FAL            FEV

For watery eyes, gentle cathartics and altera-
 tives, and wafh them with brandy and water.
For fpecks in the eye,  blow lap. cal. fugar, of.
 fiEpiae, tutty, white  vitriol with fugar, or the
 like, through a fmall tube into the  eye ; or
 drop in folutions of vitriolated zinc,  acetated
 ceruffe, Sec.
  FALLING SICKNESS.   See Epikpfy.
             FEBRIFUGES.
Bark, arfenic, tartarifed antimony, wine of an-
 timony, antimonial powder, water of aceta-
 ted ammonia, nitre, fal ammoniac,  fpirits of  !
 nitrous and vitriolic tether.
        FENNEL,  SWEET,  seed. _
Carminative, diuretic ; By to 9ij.  or in  infu-
 fion.   Water of.  The fame.
          FENUGREEK, seed.
Obtunding, emollient; chiefly in cataplafmir,'
 fomentations, and clyfters.
              FERN, root.
Anthelmintic ; 3j- to §fs. fafting.
           FEVER, APHTHOSE,
     OR THE THRUSH FEVER IN ADULTS.
Symptoms.  Fever, with ulcerations or  aphthae;
 diftinguifhable from the putrid fore throat by
 the whitenefs of the floughs,  by the edges  ,
 not being red, and by there being no fhining
 fednefs over the fauces.
                                 Treatment. 
FEV                61
Treatment. Febrifuges, bark, and antifeptics ;■
 blifters if neceffary.   Proper laxatives, and
 detergent gargles.  Borax, alum, or vitriolic
 acid, when mixed in fmall quantity with hon-
 ey, are good to touch the aphtha; with.  See
 alfo Thrufh.

FEVER, erysipelatous.   See Eryfpelas.

        FEVER, inflammatory.
Symptoms.  Slight fhivering, followed by heat,
 and quick pulfe ; naufea, anxiety, reftlefsnefs,
 white and dry tongue, thirft, and fometimes
 pain in the head and back.
Treatment. If there be fullnefs of- the veffels,
 bleed ; give proper laxatives, and if the ftom-
 ach be foul, an emetic; laline febrifuges, with
 fmall dofes of wine of antim. or tartarifed an-
 timony, and if diaphorefis be wanted, add con-
 trayerva.  If delirious, blifter, and give camph.
 mixture.  If colliquative  fweats, the decoct.
 of bark, with or without vitriolic acid.   If
 fpafm and catching cf the tendons,  with low
 pulfe, blifter the arms and legs,  and apply
 ftimulating plafters to the feet, firft bathing
 them with warm water. If hiccups, give mufk.
While the pulfe i ;!iigh,and inflammatory fymp-
 toms continue, the antiphlogiftic treatment,
 coolingfebrifuges, acids, and gentle aperients,
 are proper.   But care muft be taken not to
            F                         bring 
')2
FEV
 bring the patient too low, elfe he will want
 ftrength to carry him  through  the  difeafe.
 Gentle opiates may be ordered at night occa-
 sionally hi c.\fe of reffkfsnefs.   It the pulfe
: .fink, he fhould be fupported with proper cor-
 dials.  Coftivenefs fliould  be avoided, and
 even a purging fhould be checked with cau-
 tion, being generally either critical, or at leaft
 falutary.  The prefent and paft fymptoms'
 compared,  will  belt direct the treatment in
 fevers. Diluting acidulated liquids areprop-
 t'v; the food may be panada, gruels, pud-
 dings, and thicken broth, with bread, but no
 flefb.   I'\d or liquids particularly longed
 for ihould be given.  Care fhould be taken
 to avoid too great heat, and  impure air.

    FEVER,  intermittent.  See Ague.

           FEVER, MILIARY.
Symptoms.  Shivering,  heat, lownefs of fpirits,
 opprefiion about the picecordia, fighing. On
 the third or fourth day the eruption (preceded
 by a profufe fweat of a peculiar frowy fourifh
 fmell, with tingling  or prickling fcnfaticn)
 appears, chiefly on the neck, breaft and back.
 It cnnfiits of little bladders rurembling millet-
 feeds, (from which the fever is denominated)
 eh her white  or red, according to the colour
 of the liquid tliey contain, and fometimes both
                                      foits. 
                   FE V                 o *

 forts. The eruption being out, the fymptoms
 ufually abate ;  the urine, which before w:K
 pale, becomes higher coloured.  The erup-
 tions commonly dry in about fevea days, and
 the fkin peels off.
Treatment Bleed, if neceffary, (but this fhould
 be done with great caution) and give faline
 febrifuges,  accompanied with laxatives and
 diaphoretics, as the fymptoms may require.
 If bilious matter be fufpected in the ftomach,
 an emetic will be proper. If delirium appear,
 bliftcr; if low nervous fymptoms; give proper
 cordials;  if putrid  ones and petich?e, tire
 bark; if aphths, gargles with tindt. of myrrh,
 honey of rofes, or the like.  Acidulated li-
 quids, fruit, &c. fhould be given in this difeafe,
 the air kept pure, and the room not too hot.
             FEVEPv,  MILK.
Symptoms. It arifeth about the third or fourth
 dayafterdeliyery,withfwelling of the breafts,
 and pain fhooting towards the axillae ; the
 breafts fometimes  are hard, hot, and infla-
 med; it generally continues a day or two, then
 terminates in copious fweats and difcharge of
 urine.
Treatment. Bleed, if the inflammation be great;
 keep the body open, and let the breafts be fre-
 quently drawn. In cafe of hardnefs or inflam-
 mation, emollient fomentations and po ai rice's.
                                  FEVER, 
64
FEV
             FEVER,  mixed.
A fever wherein the fymptoms of inflammatory,
 nervous,' putrid, and other fevers, are more
 or lefs blended together ; and muft therefore
 be treated according to their appearances.
          FEVER,  PUERPERAL.
Symptoms. It begins in two or three days after
 delivery, with  the ufual  febrile fymptoms.
 The pulfe is fmall, contracted, and feldom fo
 flow as  130 in a minute ; breafts flaccid, with
 proftration of ftrength, pain in the abdomen
 with exquifite tendernefs of fome part of it,
 flufhed  facee, fhort breath, and commonly a
 pain in  the fore part of the head.
Treatment. In cafeof coftivenefs,emollient clyf-
 ters ; and, if neceffary, gentle cathartics; then
 mild diaphoretics, asf line draughts with wine
 ofantim. andproperdiluents.  Ifputridfymp-
 toms appear, the bark.  Emetics  (ipecacu-
 anha gr. vj, or viij.) exhibited early, and re-
 peated twice a day, as long as neceflary, have
 been attended with remarkable fuccefs in the
 Hotel Dieu at  Paris.

     FEVER,  PUTRID  or malignant.
Symptoms. A giddinefs  precedes  the attack ;
 then burning heat, fudden lofs  of ftrength,
 heavinefs, lownefs of fpirits, watching, pulfe
 weak, low, and unequahpains in various parts
                                        of 
FEV
63
 of the body, anxiety, oppreffion at the proe-
 cordia, naufea, vomiting, noife in the ears,
 delirium, coma, catching of the tendons, and
 thin crude urine.  The tongue is generally
 black and dry, though fometimes it continues
 clean throughout the difeafe. Petechiae often
 appear on the fourth, fifth, and feventh days.
Treatment.  Avoid bleeding ; give  fmall doles
 of tartarifed antimony, with the cam ph. mix-
 ture, and if neceffary, rhubarb, or other gen-
 tle laxative,fhould be occafionally intcrpofed.
An emetic in the beginning is often efficacious.
' Antifeptics, the bark, and cordials, of which
 wine given freely is the beft, are proper ; as
 are alfo blifters.   Opiates fhould be  freely
 adminiftered, and purgings, unlefs critical,
 fhould be checked. Milliard poultices to the
 feet are proper in cafe of ftupor ;  antifpafmo-
 dics and the mufk mixture in cafe of convul-
 five fymptoms,or hiccups. The.liquidsdrunrk
 fhould be acidulated ; fruit may be allowed ;
 the air in the room fhould be kept as pure as
 poffible, and not too warm ; vinegar fhould
 be fprinkled on the floor. Picking the bed-
 clothes in this difeafe is a bad fymptom.
     FEVER, remittent-  (Simple.)
Symptoms.  Thfr«£*tte:i-- fever differs from the
 continu?:ii.nd intermittent, in that after a cer-
 tain number of hours it reifciLs, or abates, but
            F 2                       does. 
66
FEV
 does not go off.   It is alfo called the autum-
 nal  remitting  Fever,   the  bilious Fever, the
 marfh Fever, and the camp Fever.  It ufually
 comes on fuddenly, with debility, lownefs of
 fpirits, chillinefs,and other febrile fymptoms;
 the  hands tremble ; countenance pale or yel-
 lowiih; fkin dry,breathing difficult,and pulfe
 fmall and quick; greatnaufea fucceeds. Vom-:
 iting of bile, and fometimes difcharge of it by
 ftool; the tongue becomes foul, delirium en-
 fues, with moifture on the face, and at length
 on the other parts, when the rcnuffion follows.
 As  the diforder increafes  the  remiffions are
 lefs, and at length fcarcely perceptible ; the
 mouth, teeth, and lips, covered with a black
 cruft ;  tongue very dry and ftiff, fo that the
 patient's voice can hardly be  heard.
Treatment.   An emetic is  fometimes proper;
 the body fliould be opened if neceffary ; then
 piefcribe the bark with wine  copioufly.

     FEVER, scarlet.   (Simple.)

Symptoms.  The ufual precurfory fymptoms of
 a lever, viz. Shivering, heat, &c. then anef-
 florefcence of a fcariet colour  appears all
 over the fkin,  but does not rife above the fur-
 face ;  with  heat,  di-;T»^v/-vH itching.  In
 three or four days.", difappears. and the cu-
 ticle come*. oi£ia  branny  fcales.
                                 Treu'reitht. 
FEV
67
Treatment. Cooling faline febrifuges, with gen-
 tle laxatives and diaphoretics, if neceffary.

   FEVER, scarlet.  (Malignant.)
Symptoms. Chillinefs, languor, ficknefs, oppref-
 fion, fucceeded by heat, naufea, vomiting,
 fore throat, quick pulfe, and difficult breath-
 ing ; the tonlils inflamed and ulcerated.  On
 the third day the efflorefcence appears.
Treatment.  As in malignant angina.

       FEVER, SLOW OR NERVOUS.
Symptoms. Shiverings, laffitude, wearinefs, de-
 bility, fighing, pale defponding looks, great
 anxiety, depreffion of fpirits, pain and giddi-
 nefs of the head, white tongue (fometimes red )
 with a yellow or brownifh lift running along
 the middle of it, but no thurft ; naufea, diffi-
 culty of breathing, pulfe weak, quick, and un-
 equal ; urine limpid and pale; pain and cold-
 nefs in the back part of the head ; drowfinefs.
 Thefe fymptoms are at firft fo flight as to be
 fcarcely noticed,but increafe gradually; they
 are all worfe.towards night; if a delirium,
 not violent, but a muttering  to themfelves ;
 fometimes miliary eruptions  and fweats ap-
 pear, but feldom afford relief.
Treatment.  Gentle  cordial diaphoretics, with
 wine ; previous to which, an  emetic, if noth-
 ing forbid. Coftivenefs fhould be removed by
                                    gentle 
68         FEV            FLU

 gentle laxatives; bleeding fliould be refrained
 from, unlefs urgent fymptoms indicate; blif-
 ters ; if an intermiffion appear, the bark ; if
 convulfions, mufk with caftor or other anti.
 fpafmodics, and opium ; if apfithse, gargles,
 with tinit. of myrrh, honey, decoct, of bark,
 alum,  or the like ; and in cafe of much
 phlegm, oxymel of fquills or ipecac, to bring
 it up.  Care fliould be  taken after the fever,
 to reftore the patient by proper nutritious di«.
 et,  chalybeate waters, bark, Sec.
       FEVER, worm.   See  Worms.
            FIG, THE  FRUIT.
Aperient, obtunding.
  FLOODING.  See Menfes and Abortion,
            FLUOR ALBUS.
Symptoms.  A flux of thin matter from the va-
 gina, of a tranfparent or white colour, fome-
 times tinctured with yellow or green ; fome-
 times it is fharp and corroding, with a fetid
 fmell, efpecially when  of long continuance.
Treatment. An emetic will generally be proper
 at firft ;  then give olibanurn, balf. of capivi,
 amber, bark, Or the like.  In phlegmatic con-
 ftitutions  chalybeates,  alum, or  vitriolated
 zinc ; the extract of hemlock is often of great
 u'e; ftrengthoning plafters may be applied to
 the  back and loins, aflringent injections ufed,
                                       and 
          FLU           FRA        69

 and a light, but ftrengthening and nutritive-
 diet, with little exercife.   Crabs' eyes, given
 to sTs. in a day have  been very fuccefsful,
 particularly where the difcharge was acri-
 monious.
     FLUX, bloody.   See Dyfentery.
             FOX-GLOVE.
Diuretic ;  gr. i. to iij.  Alfo in infufion, 3u*
 to ftj. of water ; 31s. to Sifs.  It fhould be
 given twice a day, and defifted from as foon
 as the urine begins to flow, the pulfe becomes
 flow,  or naufea commences, which ufually
 happens when 3fs« of the powder, or ftfs. of
 the infufion has been taken.  In large dofes it
 proves ftrongly emetic and purgative, and ex-
 hibits deleterious effects.   Its diuretic prop-
 erties  are. lefs certain if given in naufeating
 dofes. The leaf fhould be gathered about the
 time that the bloffoms  are coming forth, and
 the leaf-ftalk and mid-rib fhould be rejected.
            FRACTURES.
Treatment.   Replace the ends or pieces of the
 bone fo as to be in their  natural fituation ;
 and keep  them in that pofture  by proper
 compreffes, fplints, bandages, Sec. but not too
 tight ; and vinegar may be poured on them.
 If there be great inflammation or tumour,
 bleed, and ufe other proper methods to. re-
 mpve them before you attempt reduction. If
                                    there 
FRA           FUR
 there be loofe fragments or fplinters which
 hinder the extenfion and reduction, or caufe
 irritation remove them by proper incifions,
 or otherwife. The limb, or part, muft be kept
 ftill; proper diet muft be ordered ; the calks
 will be formed in a month or two, according
 to the bone injured, &c. the joint fhould be
 cautioufly moved at times to prevent ftiffhefs;
 the medical treatment fhould be regulated
 according to the fymptonls that arife.  If the
 fracture be of a defperate kind, amputation
 is neceffary; but it fliould be deferred, if pof-
 fible, till the firft inflammation has fubfided.

           FRANKINCENSE.
Stimulant, tonic. Plaster of.   The fame,
         FUROR  UTERINUS.
Symptoms. Melancholy, taciturnity, rednefs of
 the face, lafcivious looks,  irregular hyfteric
 fymptoms, as crying, laughing, Sec. and at
 length,  an immoderate defire of coition, ac-
 companied with libidinous fpeeches and gef-
 tures.   It is peculiar to the female fex, and
 proceeds from an abundance of acrimony of
 the fluids fecreted in the pudenda.
Treatment. Bleeding, and cooling purges; ni-
 tre ; or refrigerant, diuretic, and diluting li-
 quids ; anodynes and thin diet.  Tartarifed
 antimony in fmall dofes, with camphor, and
   ~;                              extract 
GAL           GAN        ii
 extract of henbane, has been employed with
 fuccefs.
             GALBANUM.
Nervous, antifpafmodic ; gr. v. to B). alfo ex-
 ternally in plafters.   Compound  pill  of;
 Nervous,emmenagogue ; E)fs. to3fs« Tinc-
 ture of.  3j- to 3ij.
                GALLS.
Tonic, aftringent;  gr. ij. to vj. or more. Alfo
 outwardly in liniments for the piles, &c.
              GAMBOGE.
Emetic, cathartic ; gr. ij. to viij.  it has been
 given to By
             GANGRENE.
Symptoms.  In fome cafes, when a part is vio-
 lently inflamed, the inflammation  and  pain
 fuddenly difappear ; the integuments  turn
 pale, blue,livid,or blackifh; the fkin becomes
 flaccid and pitting, with bladders filled with
 yellow or reddifh ichor;  and this  is termed
 Gangrene.
Treatment. Scarify the parts, and foment them
 with the decoction for fomentation and cam-
 phorated fpirit; 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 found
 peculiarly ferviceable.
                                    GAR- 
GAR          GON
              GARLICK.
Expectorant, diuretic, emmenagogue, fudorif-
 ic, a chive or two at a dofe, or in infufion.
           GENTIAN, root.
Tonic, ftomachic ; 3fs. to 3j. Compound in-
 fusion of.  §ifs. to |iij.  Compound tinc-
 ture of.  3j« to 3"j.  Extract of.  9j.
 to Biy
            GINGER, root.
Cordial, aromatic, carminative ; gr. v. alfo in
 infufion.   Tincture of.   Gt.  x. to lx.
            GINSENG, root.
Tonic, obtunding, antifpafmodic; 3j« or more,
 in decoctiQn.
                GLEET.
See Venereal Difeafe ; but if it do not proceed
 from that caufe, the fame treatment will be
 proper, viz. corroborants, as bark, olibanum,
 alum, vitriolic acid, balf. of capivi, &c. and if
 neceffary, aftringent injections and the cold
 bath.
   GONORRHOEA, simple.   See Gleet.
       GONORRHOEA, spurious.
Symptoms.  A purulent difcharge from minute
 exulcerations round the corona glandis, pro-
 duced by the febaceous fluid fecreted by the
 glandulae odoriferae becoming acrimonious.
It has been miftaken for virulent gonorrhoea.
                                 Treatment. 
GON           GOU        73
Treatment.  Nothing is neceffary but keeping
 the part clean by wafhing it with warm milk
 and water, or warm water alone.
GONORRHCEA,  virulent.   See Venereal
                 Difeafe.

                GOUT.
Symptoms. An acute pain in the joints, partic-
 ularly of the feet.   It is called regular when
 it is feated in the extremities, returns at ftated
 periods, and gradually declines.  Irregular,
 when the fits areuncertainandfrequent,when
 the fymptoms vary, and when the difeafe at-
 tacks the ftomach,  head, or other  internal
 parts.  It chiefly affects the membranes, ten-
 dons, and ligaments : the pain is like that cf
 a diflocated bone, with a fenfation as if warm
 water were poured on the part, fucceeded by
 chillinefs and flight fever : a breathing fweat
 comes on at the end of the fit, and  the part
 fwells ; the  fit returns at  intervals  till the
 gouty matter is fpent; the  longer the inter-
 vals, the more fevere the fit: but the fymp-
 toms  are too  well known, to need further
 enumeration in a work of this nature.
Treatment.  Cordials are beft during the fit ;
 the body fhould not be coftive ; opiates may
 be  occafionally given ; the part fhould be
 wrapt in flannel, and relaxing or other topical
           G                 applications, 
74
GRA
HiEM
 applications, as the cafe may require ; a tem-
 perate diet, exercife, friction,  and  the Bath
 waters ;  fome have ventured to blifter  the
 part with fuccefs.

          GRAVEL.   See Stone*

   GUAIACUM, gum, wood, and bark.
Sudorific, alterative, antirheumatic,  antivene*
 real.  Gum in powder,B'y to 3j.  Wood-zt\&Barl
 in decuction.  Tincture of. 3j to 3i'j«

           GUTTA SERENA.
.Sy 'r.ptoms. A blindnefs, though the eyes feem
 perfectly unaffected, the  caufe  being in  the
 retina, or optic nerve.
Treat,nent.   Blifters to the head,  back, or be.
 hind  the ears ; bleeding, if nothing forbid ;
 valerian, caftor, afafcetida, cinnabar, bark,
 volatile falts, millepedes, rofemary, or other
 nervous and attendant remedies.   Calomel,
 or chalybeates, if obftruction be the caufe;
 emetics  and cathartics difcretionally ; fter-
 nutatories fhould alfo be ufed.   Electricity
 has fometimes fucceeded.

     HEMORRHAGE, external.
Apply compound tincture of benjamin, cob-
 web,  dry lint, flour, agaric, alum,  or the vi-
 triolic ftyptics;  if  an   artery  be injured,
 take it up, or apply the fponge  tent.
                                HiEMOR- 
H.EM
HE A
75
HAEMORRHAGE, internal.   See Bleed.
     HEMORRHOIDS.   See Piles.
        HARTSHORN, BURNT.
Aftringent, abforbent; E>j.to 3j- Decoction
 of.  As  common  drink.  Oil of.   Thi.,,
 when rectified, is called animal oil, which fee.
 Salt of. As preparedAmmonia.  Shavings.
 In jelly, corroborant, nutritive.  Volatile
 liquor of.   As Water of Ammonia.
             HEAD.ACHE.
Treatment.  If occafioned by plethora, ufe the
 pediluvium, bleed or cup, and purge : if by
 •vifcid blood, give attenuants alfo : if by afoul
 Jlomach, an emetic :  if by coflivenefs, purges :
 if it be nervous, caftor, valerian, bark, com-
 pound tinct. of lavender, comp. fpirit of am-
 monia, afafoetida, or electricity, blifter  the
 back, and bathe the temples, forehead,  &c.
 with aether, or water of ammon. with a little
 roch alum in it; if a weak ftomach, give bit-
 ters or other ftomachics.  Head-aches may
 arife from various other caufes, which, when
 known, will indicate proper  remedies.   In
 periodical head-aches arfenic has been found
 very efficacious.
            HEART-BURN.
The common heart-burn, proceeding from a-
 eidity irritating the upper orifice of the ftom-
                                      ach, 
7 6        HEL          HEM
 ach, is removed for the time by magnefia,
 chalk, lozenges of chalk, and alkalis fixed or
 volatile ; but to cure it ftomachics muft be
 given.
Heart-burn may be occafioned by corroding
 humours of other kinds, and will not there-
 fore be eafed by alkalis. Emetics,with plenty
 of camomile tea or other liquid, to cleanfe the
 ftomach, are here proper; cathartics may alfo
 be ufeful, and thefe may be followed by fto-
 machics : hut water with gum arabic diffolv-
 vd in it will give occafional relief.  Worms
 will alfo fometimes occafion this complaint}
 vermifuges are then proper.
     HELLEBORE,  BLACK, root.  .
Deobftruent, attenuant,alterative; gr.v.to BCt.
 From gr. xv. to 3fs- ftrongly purgative.  Ex-
 tract of.  Bfs. to B].  Tincture of.  3j.
       ---------WHITE, root.
Violently emetic and cathartic, gr. v. to 9fs.
 alfo fternutatory. Decoction of.  External-
 ly in cutaneous difeafes.   Ointment of.
 The fame..
     HEMICRANIA.   See Head-ache,
       HEMIPLEGIA.   See Palfy,
              HEMLOCK.
In fomentations difcutient and refolvent.  In-
 spissated juice of.  Alterative,  diuretic,
                                 fedative J 
          HEP           HIC        77

 fedative; in large dofes narcotic ; gr. ij. may
 be increafed gradually to 3hj- or 1V- a day.
        HEPATITIS.  See Liver.
      HERB-MASTIC,  SYRIAN.
Stimulant, fternutatory,
         HERNIA, OR RUPTURE.
Treatment.  Return the inteftine, if practicable,
 and confine it with a proper trufs. Cofth'"-
 nefs muft be avoided, as muft likewife vio-
 lent exercife, drunkennefs, &c.
If it be ftrangulated, cold applications to the
 part, as powdered  ice, Sec.  are advifeabl'--.
 Clyfters of tobacco fmoke have facilitated
 the reduction; fo has keeping the patient in a
 warm bath till fainting came on. If nothing
 fucceed, the operation muft be performed.
 Be cautious of bleeding, though apparent
 fymptoms of inflammation with a full pulfe
 feem to require .it: thefe will foon go off
 when the inteftine is reduced.
   HERNIA hu mural is.   SeeTjlicles.
        HICCOUGH, or hiccup.
The common hiccup is ufually removed by
 drinking a draught of any weak liquid, by
 holding the breath, and fometimes by fwal-
 lowing dry bread.
For the hiccup or fingultus, which comes on in
           c 2                       .the 
7 8        HIP'           HYD
 the laft ftages of fever, Sec. give the mulk
 mixture, or mufk in fubftance, in large dofes;
 volatile fait, caftor, or the like ;  to  which,
 opium may be difcretionally added.  When
 a primai y difeafe, fternutatories and emetics
 have been ufeful: fo has the plafter of la-
 danum applied to the pit of the ftomach.
              HIP,  fruit.
Cooling.   Conserve of.  At pleafure.
     HOG'S LARD, ointment of.
Softening, healing.
                HONEY.
Pectoral, detergent, aperient.   Acetated.
 Antifeptic, cooling, detergent.
   HOOPING  COUGH.  See  Cough.
       *HOREHOUND, white.
Tonic, aperient; 3fs. to 3j.
       HORSE  RADISH, root.
Stimulant, diuretic, deobftruent, ad libitum. In-
 filled  in  water, wkie, or fpirit, §jfs. to Siij.
 Spirit of.  y>l's. to 3j«
   HYDROCELE.       1 c    n   -
   HYDROCEPHALUS, j See Dr0^'
           HYDROPHOBIA.
It is of more confequence here to defcribe the
 fymptoms in the dog than thofe of the patient.
                                      We 
HYD                79
 We may know the dog to be mad by his dull,
 heavy look ; endeavouring to hide himfelf;
 feldom or never barking ;  being angry and
 fnarling at ftrangers, but fawning onhis own-
 er; refilling all food, drooping, hanging down
 his ears and tail, and often lying down as if
 going to fleep.  This is the firft ftage.   He
 next begins to breathe quick and heavy, fhoots
 out his tongue, flavers,  and. froths  at the
 mouth ; looks half afleep ; flies fuddenly at
 by-ftanders; and runs forward in acurve 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
 rifes, and attempts to fly at fomething ; and
 grows mad and furious.  The nearer to this
 ftate, the more dangerous the bite.
If the ftate of the dog cannot  be obtained, he
 may be known to  have been mad, or the dif-
 order may be known to be this by the follow-
 ing effects, which  will come on fooner or la-
 ter.  The bitten  part begins to be painful,
 wandering pains come on gradually,with hea-
 vinefs and uneafinefs ;  the patient has diftur-
 bed fleep, frightful dreams, ftartings, fpafms,
 fighing, anxiety,  and  loves  folitude; pains
 fhoot from the bitten part up to the throat,
 withftraitnefs,fenfation of choaking,a»d hor-
                                      ror
           f 
§.o                 HYP

 ror or- dread at fight of water or  other- 1{,
 quids which is afufficient characteriftic of the
 difeafe.
Treatment. Cut out the bitten part immediate-
 ly, which is the only certain cure : cupping-
 glaffes fhould then be applied ; cauterize and
 wafli it daily with fait water, or rub in the
 ftronger ointment of quickfilver, keeping  it
 open with efcarotics.; bleed, if the veffels be
 full vomit with vitriolated quickfilver ; give
 mufk gr. xvhcinnabar 3fs. (to which camphor
 and opium may be added) at night, and a
 purge the next morning ; bathe in the fea, or
 cold bath, and give a fudorific ; repeat thefe
 for a week daily, and three or four times at
 the  next full and change of the moon. The
 ointment of quickfilver applied externally, and
 vitriolated quickfilvergiven inwardly, fo as to
 raife a falivation for feveral weeks, are faid to
 be efficacious. . In Germany the root of dead-
 ly nightfhade has been given, from  gr. iij. to
 vj. at a dofe, and is reported to have proved
 infallible  in the firft ftages.  The Ormfkirk
 medicine has failed in a variety of cafes, and
 has indeed been f .und to be of no efficacy.
         HYPOCHONDRIASIS.
Symptoms are generally low-fpiritednefs (thedif-
 orderbeing chiefly in the imagination) heavi-
 nefs,oppreflion, and dependency; yetattimes
                                uncommon 
HYS
81
 uncommon cheerfulnefs and flow of fpirits ;
 timidity, anxiety, fear, dread of dying, fhort
 cough, difficult breath, flatulency, pale urine,
 pains in the head, odd fancies, fpafms.
Treatment.   Bark, and other tonics ; nervous
 antifpafmodics, as caftor, valerian, afafoetida,
 &c. attenuants, as volatile falts and fpirits ;
 bitters and chalybeates if no fever ; emetics,
 aperients,  opiates, iffues, and blifters, difcre-
 tionally ; the cold bath and chalybeate wa-
 ters, food light and eafy of digeftion, cheerful
 company, and gentle exercife.
          HYSSOP, HEDGE.
Violently emetic,and purgative, diuretic, an-
 thelmintic ; Bk. to 3fs.  Alfo in infufion.
              HYSTERIA.
Symptoms. In women fimilar to thofe of hypo-
■ chondriafis in men, but ufually more violent,
 and attended with convulfive fits; which gen-
 erally come on with oppreflion at the breaft,
 difficult breathing, a fenfe of fomethingrifing
 in the throat,  which feems to threaten fuffo-
 cation ; convulfive motions ; frothing at the
 mouth ; laughing, and fometimes crying.
 May be known from a mere fyncope by the
 pulfe and breathing continuing, whereas in a
 fyncope they are notperceptible; italfocomes
 on gradually, but a fyncope more fuddenly ;
                                        in 
82         HYS            JAU

 in that, the fit is of fhort continuance, in this,
 ufually much longer ; with a colour in the
 face, which is not the cafe in a fyncope. .
Treatment of the diforder itfelf, as in the hypo.
 chondriafis.  In the fit fetid volatiles, fing-
 ed feathers, &c. may be applied to the nof-
 trils ; and cold water and fetid volatiles giv-
 en.  The feet and legs may be placed in
 warm water; the pure cold air fhould be free-
 ly admitted ; cold water may be fprinkled on
 the face and breaft ; and if a plethora be in-
 dicated, bleed;  otherwife cauticufly avoid it,
 In this difeafe, particular attention fhould be
 paid to the ftate of the menfes, Sec.
This difeafe appears often under a variety of
 forms ; for a more particular account than
 can here be given, Sydenham, and other au-
 thors, may be confulted.
HYSTERITIS, or inflammation of the
            womb.  See Womb.
             JALAP, root.
Cathartic ; gr. xv. to 3fs. or more.  Extract
 of. gr. vj. to xij. Tincture of. 3j. to 3ij,
              JAUNDICE.
Sympt-ms.   Yellownefs of the whole fkin, but
 chiefly the whites  of the eyes ; the urine alfo
 yellow; laffitude, inactivity, anxiety, ficknefs,
 oppj-elfion and difficult breathing; pain at the
                                 ftomach; 
1LI              FNF ,       S3
 ftomach ; bitter tafte in the mouth ; fome-
 times attended, with purging, at others cof-
 tivenefs ; ftools generally like blue clay, but
 fometimes of a dark earthy, and at others
 of a deep yellow colour.
Treatment.  If the  veffels be very ful], bleed ;
 then vomit, purge, and give medicines with
 foap ; tb"which may occafionally be added,
 rhubarb, aloes, chalybeates or fquills. Saline
 draughts if fever ;  opiates in cafe of pain ;
 gentle emetics may be occafionally repeated,
 and die body fhould be kept open.  Chalybe-
 ate waters, or water or cyder with a red hot
 iron quenched in it, may be ufed as common
 drink; gentle exercife, air, and cheerful com-
 pany.
           ILIAC PASSION.
 Symptoms. Acute pains in the bowels, oppref*
 fion at the  ftcmach, tenfion of the belly,
 vomiting  of bile,  and fometimes of fsces^
 great thirft and  heat.
 Treatment as in the inflammatory Colic, of which
 this is only a more violent kind.
            INCRASSANTS.
 Kino, ginfeng, farcocolla, farfaparilla, and fa-
 rinaceous and mucilaginous fubftances.
    INDIAN PINK.  See Pink, Indian.
  INFLAMMATION, superficial.  See
                 Phlegmon. 
84        INF             ISS

   INFLAMMATION of the bowels.
         See Colic and Iliac Paffwn.
  INFLAMMATION of  other  parts.
          See  the refpeclive  Parts.
           IPECACUANHA.
Emetic ; gr. vj. to 3fs.  Antifpafmodic; gr. fs.
 to iij. and with opium, fudorific.   Alfo in
 dyfenteries.   Compound  powder of.  Su-
 dorific ; gr. v. to By  Wine of.  |fs. to
 Bifs.
                 IRON.
Tonic, aftringent, deobftruent ; 9fs. to  %{s.
 Ammoniacal. gr. ij. to x.  Tincture of.
 gt. X. tO xl.   MuRIATED TINCTURE OF. gt.
 x. to xl.   Rust  of.   gr. v. to 3fs.  Tar-
 tarised.  gr. v. to 3fs» Vitriolated. gr.
 i. to x. or more.   Wine of. 3j« to |fs.
              ISINGLASS.
Corroborant, nutritive, in jellies.
           ISSUES,  to  cut.
Pinch up the fkin and fat with the thumb and
 forefinger, and divide them  with a lancet fo
 as to admit a pea ; or you may apply a fmall
 blifter or cauftic on the part.  The peafe with
 which it is afterwards dreffedmay befmeared
 with ointment of yellow refin, or of canthar-
 idesi if neceffary ; and dipped in blue vitriol
 water if fungus appear.  The pea may be fe-
                                   cured 
           ITC            JUN        8$

  cured with the litharge plafter with refin ;  if
  the" iffue inflame, drefs with ointment of wax,
  or bleed or purge.

                  ITCH.
 Symptoms.  An eruption in the form of fmall
  pimples or puftules, chiefly about the joints,
  wrifts, hams, the bend of the arms, the waift,
  and between the fingers ; the pimples gene-
  rally hard at firft, afterwards watery,efpecial-
  ly if nibbed or otlierwife inflamed : aha itch-
  ing which is greateft wdien warm, or in bed.
  It is infectious.
Treatment. Anoint with  fulphur and lard, oint-
  ment of quickfilver, or white calx of quick-
  filver and pomatum;  hellebore, or fal am-
  moniac, may  occafionally be added ; or wafli
  with a weak folution of muriated quickfilver,
  a decoction of white hellebore root, or ftron^
  compound water of acetated  litharge, with
  fait. A quickfilver girdle may be worn, but
  fulphur is the moft fafe and certain. Flowers
  of fulph. may be given inwardly ; or vitriolic
  acid, which has been faid to have performed
  a cure alone.  Bleed  and purge firft in cafe
  of inflammation or coftiventfi.

     JUNIPER,  BERRIES  and  tops.
Carminative, diuretic, in decoction or infufion ;
 at pleafure.  Comfound spirit of.  3j« to
           H                         !fs. 
%6        KAL            KID

 ?.fs.   Essential' oil  of  the  jerries.
 Carminative, ftomachic ;  gt. j. to ij. Stimu-
 lating, diuretic, emmenagogue ; gt. Vj. to x.
            Ki^LI,  prepared.
Antacid, diuretic ; gr. iij.  or iv. to xv. or xx.
 Acetated.   Diuretic, cathartic ;  E)fs.  to
 3ij. or more.  Pure.   This is the  ftrong
 common cauftic.  Sulphurated.  The fo-
 lution chiefly as a wafh in cutaneous difeafes.
 Tartarisated.  Laxative ; E)j. to 3J-  Ca-
 thartic ;  3'j» to %'y   Vitriolated.   Ape-
 rient ; By  to B'ij.   Cathartic ; 3'j* to 3v.
 Water  of.   As the prepared, in a quadru-
 ple dofe.   Water  of  pure kali.   An-
 tacid, diuretic, lithontriptic ;  gt. v. to 3j>
          KIBES. See Chilblains.
      KIDNEYS, inflammation of.
Symptoms.  Burning pain in the kidney, or kid-
 neys ; vomiting ; eructations ; numbnefs of
 the thigh ;  pain in the groin, ilium, and tefti-
 cle of the fame fide ; frequent, but fmall dif-
 tharges of urine, which is red and high col-
 oured, yet limpid and watery in the height
 of the difeafe.
Treatment.  Bleed ; open the body with cathar-
 tics and  clyfters ; give emollient diuretics,
 with plenty of milk of almonds, or the like,
 for common drink ; warm bathing ; and opi-
 ates in cafe of violent pain.              If 
KIN           LEM        8>*
 If the pain abate, leaving behind a fenfe of
  weight, with frequent fhiverings, followed by
  heat, and whiti.fh turbid urine, it denotes fup-
  puration. In this cafe give half, capivi with
  nitre, and rhubard, or other balfamic  diur-
  etics. The pain fuddenly remitting, with cold
  fweats, intermittent pulfe, hiccup,fefid urine,
  and fuppreffion of that difcharge, are figns
  of mortification.
      KING'S EVIL.  See Scrophda.
               KINO,  GUM.
 Tonic, obtunding  ; 9fs.  to 3ft-
       LABOUR.   See Child-birth.
              LADANUM.
 Toni:, ftimulant,  externally.  Plaster of.
  Stomachic.
       LADY'S-SMOCK, flower.
 Antifpafmodic ; By to 3j-
         LAVENDER, flowers.
 Cephalic; nervous; B.'y  to  3j.   Compound
  ^pirit of. gt. x. to c.   Essential oil of.
  gt.  j.  to v.   Alfo  externally ftimulating.
  Spirit of. 3fs- to 3j.
         LEAD,  RED AND WHITE.
 Externally deficcative, repellent, fedative.
       LEMON, JUICE AND PEEL.
Juice, Cooling, antifeptic, opening; 3j. to Jfs.
I                                     Peel, 
88        LEO           LIQ
 Peel, ftomachic ; 9fs. to 3fs«   In infufion,
 5j. to iij.
Inspissated  juice of«   As the juice in a
 fmaller dofe.
     LEOPARD'S-BANE, German.
Stimulant ;  3j.  to Sfs. in  infufion, in the
 courfe of the day.
             LETHARGY.
This may be confidered only as a lefs degree
 of Apoplexy, and  fhould be treated accord-
 ingly.  The chief fymptoms  are, fleep, or
 great drowfmefs.
              LIENTERY.
In this difeafe the' aliment is difcharged with
 but little  alteration, and  the body  waftesl
 The Treatment as in the Coeliac Paffion.
          LIME,  WATER OF.
Antacid, aftringent; jiv. to ftj.  In clyfters,
 vermifuge.  It has alfo been reputed lithon-
 triptic, and good in fcrophula.   With purs
 kali.   The milder common cauftic.
               LINSEED.
Pectoral, diuretic ;  in infufion and mucilage,
 from  3ij.  to 3fs.   The powder  is ufed in
 cataplafms.   Oil of.   Bfs.              j
          LIQUORICE,  root.
Obtunding.   Extract of.   At pleafure.
 Troches of.  The fame.             LI- 
          LIT            LIV        85

              LITHARGE.
Aftringent,  fedative in external applications.
 Acetated, cerate of.   The fame.  Wa-
 ter of.  $'iy OI"  this with diftilled water
 ftij. proof fpirit 3u-  tnake the Compound
 water of  acetated l. commonly called
 Goulard's  Vegeto-mineral Water.   Its virtues
 the fame.   Plaster of.  Deficcative.  Pl.
 of, compound.  Digeftive.  With quick-
 silver.  Difcutient.  With resin.  Ad-
 hefive.

          LITHONTRIPTICS.
Antacid.  Water of pure kali, k.ili, limewate:-,
 foap.  Tonic.  Muriatic, vitriolic, and aerial
 acids, mephitic alkaline water, uva urfi, wild
 carrot.

            LIVER INFLAMED.
Symptoms.  Obtufe pain in the part, fhooting
 up  towards the throat  and fhoulder,  but
 never great, unlefs the ruombranes are affect-
 ed ; hiccup; vomiting; dry cough; laffitude;
 fever ;  tenfion of the hypochondnum ; eyes,
 fkin, and urine, fometimes yellow ;  coftive-
 nefs ; difficulty  of breathing.   The fymp-
 toms are aggravated by  lying on the left
 fide.
Treatment.  Bleed as largely as the pulfe v/ill
 bear; blifter the part; purge; giv: cooling
            H 2                  febrifuges 
LOC           LUM
 febrifuges and diuretics ; direct  cooling c-
 mollient clyfters, fomentations, and poulti-
 ces, and pediluvia.
If a tumour appear, forward and open it, if
 nothing forbid, and give the bark.
In the Eaft-Indies they cure this difeafe by
 falivation, bleeding and purging  being pre-
 mifed.
If z'Schirrus fucceed, foap, rhubarb, mercu-
 rials, and chalybeates will be proper.
        LOCHIA.   See Child-birth.
            LOCKED JAW.
Symptoms.  A rigid contraction of the mufcles
 which laife the lower jaw, whence the jaws
 continue violently clofed, with great pain.
Treatment.  The belt remedy is large and re-
 peated  dofes of opium.  Blifters, purges,
 clyfters, and antiipafmodics, may  alfo be
 prescribed.
               LOGWOOD.
Tonic, aftringent;  § ij. to |iv. of  the  decoc-
 tion.   Extract of.   9fs.  to 5j»
LUES VENEREA.   See  Venereal Difeafe.
               LUMBAGO.
A kind of rheuniatifm in the loins, or fmall of
 the back, without any nephritic  fymptoms.
 Antirheumatic remedies prove moft-effica-
 cious.  See liicu.:ia.tifm.  Strengthening or
                             •  ftimuldtingj; ■ 
          LUX          MAO        pi

 ftimulating plafters, or  even blifters to the
 part, are alfo ufeful: or cupping, and  the
 warm bath.

             LUXATIONS.
Treatment.  Place the limb or part, fo that the
' mufcles may be relaxed, and the head of the
 bone free  from obftacles ; then  reduce the
 bone into its natuaal fituation, and apply
 proper bandages, not too tight, to keep it fo,
 till the ligaments have recovered their tone.
 If there be inflammation, bleed, give  laxa-
 tives and cooling remedies, foment and poul-
 tice.   Reft and proper  diet fhould be  ad-
 vifed.
                MACE.
Aromatic,  ftimulant; Bfs. to 3fs«  Oil of.
' See Nutmeg, expreffed oil of.

           MADDER,  root.
Aperient, diuretic, emmenagogue, antifeptic ;
 3<s. to 5j.
              MADNESS.
The fymptoms are too well  known to need
 enumeration.  Emetics, cathartics, blifters,
 occafional bleeding, antifpafmodics, opiates,
 and  low diet.  Thefe  may be varied ac-
 cording to the nature of the complaint "(that
 is, whether it be Melancholy or the contrary)
 and  to the fymptoms  that arife in either.
                                      Dr. 
MAG          MEA
 Dr. Simmons, who has made trial of a great
 Yariety of remedies at St. Luke's Hofpital,
 has often feen very remarkable good effects,
 and even cures performed, by large dofes of
 -camphor, in maniacal cafes ; >Bj. every hour
 or two.
              MAGNESIA.
Antacid, opening ;  By  to  3ij»    Burnt.
 This is equally mild, though at leaft doubly
 as powerful as an antacid : it is alfo prefer.
 able in many cafes, becaufe no fixed air will
 be difengaged from it in the ftomach.  Tro-
 ches  of.   Chiefly for the heart-burn.  Vit-
 riolated.   Cathartic ;  §fs.  to gifs.
    MALLOW, leaves  and  flowers.
Obtunding, emollient.
              " MANNA.
Aperient, obtunding ; 5j. to Biij.
  MARJORAM, SWEET and WILD,
Stimulant ;  By to $fs.  Alfo fternutatory.
 Essential oil of.  gt. ij. to  iv.
  MARSHMALLOW,  root and leaf.
Obtunding, emollient.
               MASTIC.
Tonic,  antifeptic;  9j. to 5fs.
  MEADOW-SAFFRON, fresh  root.
Strongly cathartic, diuretic; in lubftance fmall
                                    dofes 
MEA
93
 dofes  produce alarming effects, but of the
 Oxymel 3-ij. or iij. may be given in a day.
 Of this the common dofe is from 3fs. to 3ifs-
 at firft.
               MEASLES.
Symptoms. Chillinefs, fhivering, pain in the head,
 fever,  ficknefs,  and  fometimes vomiting;
 cough,heavinefsof the eyes,with fwelling, in-
 flammation, and difcharge of watery humour
 from them, and alfo from the noftrils.   The
 third Or fourth day, an eruption like flea-bites
 appears in the face, neck, and breaft,and foon
 after in the body and limbs ; it rifes above the
 fkin, but does not fuppurate.   The fever and
 Other fymptoms do not, as in the Small-Pox,
 Sec. abate on the appearance of the eruption,
 which continues about three days, then dries,
 away, the fkin peeling off; but the other fymp-
 toms remain and even increafe, efpecially the
 cough, which is alfo attended in general with
 difficulty of breathing, and oppreffion at the
 breaft. •
Treatment.   Cooling and aperient febrifuges ;
' gentle diaphoretics, if neceffary ; bleeding, if
 nothing forbid; pectorals for the cough ; opi-
 ates occafionally atnight; blifters, if the cough
 be obltinate ;  and bathing the feet in warrri
 water. Gentle phyfic fhould be given as foon
 as the eruption disappears. 
MEC           MEN
J.t has been propofed to inoculate the Meafles ,-
 but Dr. Simmons, in his differtation de Rube-
 ola,  obferves, that the  different attempts in
 this  way, hitherto have proved ineffectual;
 Dr.  Home's  experiments, as related in his
 Medical Fails, not haying been found to an-
 swer when repeated by others.
MECONIUM,  retention of, in  infants;
       (called alfo Colica Meconialis.)
Treatment. Give magnefia or fyr. of rofes, caf-
 tor oil, or oil of almonds, with oil of anifeed,
 or other oil in cafe of wind, and, if neceffary,
 emollient clyfters.  If purging, give chalk, or
 Other abforbents, &c.  If vomiting, fyr. of
 white poppy,givenwith caution in fmall dofes.
     MENSES, immoderate flux of.
Treatment. Tonics, as infufion of rofes, alum,
 bark, amber, Sec. with opiates. In defperate
 cafes, fmall dofes of blue vitriol, or acetated
 ceruffe, but with great  caution. Aftringent
 fomentations to the part, as vinegar, alum, or
 the like ; reft, and proper mild diet.  Some*'
 times chalybeates are proper; and, if neceffa-
 ry, laxatives.
         MENSES OBSTRUCTED.
Treatment.   In phlegmatic habits, purge with
 aloetics, and give chalybeates.  In plethoric
 habits, bleed, avoid chalybeates, and give the
                                compound 
MEZ           MiS        9;
 compound powder of myrrh, caftor, or the
 like, with tinct. of black hellebore, aloes, oil
 or extract of favine, pennyroyal, and the like.
 Bathing the feet, fomenting the  belly, and
 fitting over the fleams of hot water, are good
 in both habits ; attenuants in cafe of vifcid
 blood ; emetics are often efficacious, as are
 fometimes fmall dofes of mercurials ;  exer-
 cife, and if the appetite be vitiated, proper fto-
 machics. Of late, electricity has been found
 efficacious in cafes cf this fort, by drawing
 fparks, and fending  gentle fhocks through
 the  pelvis.
   MEZEREON, bark  of the root.
Antivenereal, alterative; from gr. j. upwards.
 In decoction,  dofe 3ij« to iv.  Chiefly in ve-
nereal pains of the bones,and affections of the
 fkin. Externally the bark of mezereon raifes
 blifters.
            MILLEPEDES.
Diuretic, attenuant, deobftruent ; gr.  v. to
 3fs.
                 MINT.
Tonic, antiemetic.  Essential oil of.  gt. j.
 to iij. or more.   Spirit of.   3j> to Sfs.
 Water of. §j. to 5'1'y
     MISCARRIAGE.   Sec Abortion.
MIX* 
96        MIX       •   MYR

    MIXTURE, CAMPHORATED.
Diaphoretic, antifpafmodic, diuretic ; sfs. to
Jiij.
            —— CHALK.
Antacid, and in diarrhoea; to ftj.orij.inaday.
             ----MUSK.
Stimtflant, antifpafmodic; §j. to Slij. or more.
  MONKSHOOD.  See Wolfsbane,  blue.
    MORTIFICATION.  See Sphacelus:
        MULBERRY, the fruit.
Cooling, antifeptic.
     MUMPS.   See Angina maxdlaris.
                 MUSK.
Stimulant, antifpafmodic ; gr. vj. to 3fs-
           MUSTARD,  seed.
Stimulant.  The powder mixed with crumb
 of bread and vinegar, now called Mustard
 poultice, formerly a finapifm, is ufed ex-
 ternally as a ftimulus.  Oil of.  This has
 been recommended in rheumatifm, but it
 appears to be perfectly bland.
                MYRRH.
Tonic, deobftruent, antifpafmodic ;gr.v. to 3fs.
 In phthifis to 3iij.  or iv. in a day.  Tinc- ,
 ture of. gt.  xv.  to lx.   Externally, de-
 terfive.  Compound powder of.  Emmen-
 agogue ; By to 3j.                   NA- 
NAT            NIG
           NATRON, prepared.
 Antacid, deobftruent in fcrophula ; 9j. to Biy
  Tartarised.  Cathartic ; 5is. to Bifs. Vit-
  riolated.   The fame.
              NEPHROTICS.
 Opiates, emollients, diuretics.
       NEPHRITIS.  See Kidneys.
 NERVOUS  COMPLAINTS.   See Hypo-
       chondriac and Hyflerk Difeafes.
 The clafs of medicines called Kervus, with.
  corroborants, air, and proper regimen, are
  moft ufeful in thefe cafes.
     NERVOUS  FEVER.  See Fever.
       NERVOUS  MEDICINES.
 Fetid fpirit of ammonia, pills of gum, afafoe-
  tida,galbanum,caftor,opoponax,fagepanum,
  rectified oil  and pure fait of amber, vitriolic
  aether, valerian, rue, pennyroyal, balfam of
  Peru, chalybeates, cephalics, tonics.
         NETTLE, COMMON.
Aperient.  Externally as a rubefacient.
      NIGHTSHADE, DEADLY,
              leaf and  root.
Narcotic, fudorific, aperient, diuretic, refolu-
 tive.; gr.  ij. to  vj.  It is  recommended
 againft hydrophobia.
       ----- WOODY, STALKS.
Sudorific, aperient, diuretic.
           I                        NIP- 
S        NIP            OLL
           NIPPLES, SORE.
Treatment.  Apply oil of wax, cream, mucilage
 of gum arabic, ointment of wax, faet, or the
 like.  If they be moift, ointment of wax, with
 fome drying powder,asftarch,Frenchbole,&c.
           NITRE, purified.
 Cooling, febrifuge, diuretic ; gr.  9fs.  to },].
 Troches of.   Thefe have been employed
 with fuccefs in fome cafes of difficult deglu-
 tition.
               NUTMEG,   . .
 fssential oil of, and exfresseo oil of.
 Stimulant, aromatic ; gr. j. to vj.  Spirit of.
 3fs.  to 3ij-
               OAK, BARK.
 Tonic, aftringent; By to 3j.
             OIL, ANIMAL.
 Anodyne, antifpafmodic ; gt. x. to  xxx.
        OIL, SULPHURATED.
 Stimulant, pectoral;  gt. x. to xl.  External-
 ly deterfive.
          OYSTER, the shell.
 Abforbent; By to 3j.
             OILS, essential.
 The virtues of the plants they are drawn from,
 in dofes of gt. j. to iij. on fugar, or etherwife.
              OLIBANUM.
 Corroborant; gr. v. to By
                                 OLIVE, 
          OLI            PAL        .;$

              OLIVE, oil.
As oil of almonds.
                OPIUM.
Anodyne,antifpafmodic,Sec. gr. £ to ij. Pills
 0?. gr. jfs. to x.  Tincture of.  gt. x. to
 xxv.  Camphorated. 3fs. to 3\j«
             OPOPONAX.
Nervous, ftimulant, aperient;  gr. v. to  Dj.
 to 3j» purgative.
         ORANGE, SEVILLE,
LEAF AND FLOWER, AND JUICE AND RIND OF
               THE  FRUIT.
Leaf, antifpafmodic ;  3fs- Flower. The fame.
 Juice and rind.   As  thofe of lemon, but
 weaker.  Conserve of  the  rind.   3'j«
 Tincture of. By to  3ij.
             ORRIS, root.
Tonic ;  By to t^ij.  Of the frefh juice, Diij.
 or iv. prove cathartic.
  PALPITATION OF THE HEART.
Treatment.  In proper conftitutions bleed re-
 peatedly ; but where the diforder proceeds
 from relaxation, the bark and corroborants.
 Nervous medicines, mufk, volatile falts, &c.
 are  good ; as are alfo blifters.  In bilious
 habits  it is frequently removed by |fs. of
 pure lemon juice.
                                PALSY, 
ioo       PAL
PAR
        PALSY, or PARALYSIS.
Symptoms.  A lofs or diminution of the motion
  or feeling, or both, of fome part or paits of
  the body. If it happen to all the parts.below
  the  head, it is called Paraplegia ;  if to one
  fide of the body, Hemiplegia; and if to a.par-
  ticular part, Paralyfis.
Treatment.  Emetics, blifters  kept open, and
' ftrong clyfters; nervous, attenuating, and fti-
  mulating medicines, as valerian, caftor, muf-
  tard, fait of hartfhorn, horfe-radifh, &c. fling-
  ing the part with nettles, or muftard, or other
  warm ftimulating  application rubbed  into
  them, and that part of the fpine from which
  the nerves ferving the part iffue.  Electricity
  and dry frictions are good, as are  alfo  cha-
  lybeate, and Bath or Briftol waters.
Palfy of the lower extremities, arifing from ca-
  ries of the fpine, and accompanied with a dif-
  tortion of it,  has been frequently cured by
  applying a large cauftic on each fide of the
  protuberant vertebra, and keeping the ulcers
•open as iffues.
   PARAPHYMOSIS.  See Phymnfls.
       PAREIRA BRAVA, root.
Diuretic, attenuant; t)fs.  to B'\y   Alfo in de-
  cocfion.
       PARSLEY, root and seed.
Stimulant,  diuretic.                 PARS- 
PAR           PEM       101
         PARSNEP, WATER.
The espreffed juice, §ij. to §iv. every morn-
 ing, in cutaneous difeafes.
             PECTORALS.
Obtunding. Oils of almonds, olives, and linfeed,
 fpermaceti, linfeed, honey, liquorice, troches
 of ftarch, compound  powder of tragacanth.
 Balfamic.  Balfams of Peru and Tolu, ben-
 jamin, floras, fulphur, fulphurated oil, ful-
 phurated foffil tar. Sedative.  Camphorated
 tincture of opium.
    PELLITORY OF SPAIN, rcot.
Stimulant.   Chiefly as a mafticatory.
        ---— OF THE WALL.
Mildly diuretic, aperient, emollient; 3ij.oriij.
 of the  expreffed juice.
             PEMPHIGUS.
Symptoms.  Fever, accompanied with the fuc-
 ceffive eruption from different parts of the
 body,  internal as well as external, of veficles
 about the fize of an  almond, which becon:e
 turgid with a faintly yeilowifh ferum, and
 in three or four days fubfide.
Treatment.  The debility and tendency to pu-
 trefaction indicate the bark and cordials : yet
 a few grains of mild muriated quickfilver at
 night, with a cathartic in the morning, have
 been fuccefsful. When veficles appear on in-
            i 2                      ternal 
PEN            PER
 ternal parts, irritationmuft be guarded a vainfl:
 by opiates, demulcents, and gentle laxatives.
            PENNYROYAL.
Stimulant, antihyfteric.  Essential oil of.
 gt. i. to v.   Spirit of.   3j- to 3iij.  Wa-
 ter of. §ifs.
    PEPPER, BLACK, the  berry;
CAYENNE, the capsule ; LONG,  the
                 fruit.
Thefe are all hot and ftimulant;  the Cayenne
 moft fo. This may be given to gr. vj. or viij.
            PEPPERMINT.
Stimulant.   Essential oil of. gt. fs. to ij.
 Spirit of.  gt. xx. to lx. Water of. %h,
 to Sip
          PERIPNEUMONY,
    or  inflammation or the  lungs.
Symptoms. Difficult breathing, with oppreffion
 ■and feeming load at the  breaft  ; the breath
 hot ; cough ; fever ; rednefs in the face  ;
 pulfe fometimes hardly perceptible, but after
 bleeding, ftrong, though unequal.  Differs
 from a Pleurify  in the cough  being  more
 inoift, the pain lefs acute, and the  pulfe not
 fo ftrong. "'
Treatment. Bleed repeatedly, if neceffary; and
 give nitre, with fpermaceti, or oil of almonds,
                                     fait 
PER           PHL       103
 fait of hartfhom, gentle antimonials, or the
 like. Cooling emollient clyfters are ufeful, as
 are alfo  buffering and cupping.
    PERIPNEUMONY,  BASTARD.
Symptoms.   Heat  and cold alternately ;  pain
 "and giddinefs of the head, when the cough is
 moft troublefome; vomiting; quick, difficult:
 breathing, and wheezing; pain of the breaft;
 urine turbid, with red fediment.   Differs
 from a true Peripneumony, in not having ex-
 traordinary heat, pain, thirft, or fever ; by its
 uiually feizing thofe of a relaxed and grofs
 habit; and by prevailing moft in moift foggy
 weather, contrary to the  other.
Treatment.  Bleed not, unlefs the pulfe be very
 full, and comatofe fymptoms appear; blifters,
 emetics, laxatives, emollient clyfters, attenu-
 ants and diluents; pectorals for the cough,
 and opiates if neceffary.
              PHLEGMON,
      OR SUPERFICIAL INFLAMMATION.
 Symptoms.  Heat, pain, tenfion, rednefs, and
 throbbing in the part; fever ;  if not refold-
 ed, the part proceeding to fuppuration, gan-
 grene, or fchirrhus.
 Treatment.   Remove any perceivable external
 caufe; bleed,purge,and give diaphoretic feb-
  rifuges ;  apply emollient fomentations and
      ,_                           poultices 
FHR           PHY
  ?oultices to the part, or preparations of lead,
  f matter form, ceafe evacuation, and forward
 the fuppuration; when ripe, open the abfcefs,
 and digeft. If gangrene appear, treat as (\y
 rected under that article.
       PHRENSY, PHRENITIS,
    OR INFLAMMATIONOF THE BRAIN.
Symptoms.  Conftant delirium and fever, diffi-
 cult breathing, violent pain in the head aug-
 mented by light; great fenfibility to found ;
 rednefs  of eyes and face ; pulfe quick, hard,
 and fmall; tongue black and dry ; urine thin
 and trahfparent; fudden ftartings ; picking
 the bed-clothes.  Known from a common fe-
 ver, &c. by the delirium preceding the fever..
Treatment. Bleed largely; ftimulating clyfters,
 blifters, the pediluvium, and finapifms to the
 feet; fpirituous embrocations to thehead, firft
 fhaved.  Nitre, fait of hartfhorn, or other at-
 tenuants, purges, and diluents ; opiates, if
 neceffary ; promoting the hemorrhoidal flux
 is of great ufe.
     PHTFIISIS.   See  Confumpti.n,
  PHYMOSIS and PARAPHYMOSIS.
Symptoms. The firft is a clofing of the prepuce
' over the glans penis, fo as not to be drawn
 back; the laft, a conftriction of it behind the
 glans, fo as riot to be drawn over it.
                                 1 'rcatment^ 
PIL             PIM
Treatment.  Foment, poultice, bleed and purge;
 vomit if neceffary ; and give cooling febrifu-
 ges.  If thefe fail, proper incifions muft be
. made.
                 PILES,
 OR PAINFUL  tumours  in the anus  or
                 RECTUM.
Treatment.  Bleed, if neceffary ; and give ful-
 phur, or .quickfilver with fulphur, nitre, and
. elect, of fenna; if 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 aflringents; if muchfwel-
 led and inflamed, fcarifyi or apply leeches to
 them.  Sulphurated oil is very proper to ap-
 ply to the Piles,  and the ointment of quick-
 filvei has alfo been found ufeful. They may
 more expeditioufly be driven  away by  lini-
 ments made of powder Of galls, or acetated
 ceruffe, Or by wafhing them with folutions of
 white or blue vitriol. But as the hsemorrhoi-
 dal difcharge is  generally falutary, caution
 muft be ufed in repelling it.
           PIMENTO, BERRY.
Aromatic, ftimulant; gr. xv. to 3j.  Spirit
 of. 3fs. to 3ij.   Water of.  |j.
               PIMPLES.
Treatment.  Wafh them with a folution of ace-
                                    tated 
io6       PIN            FLA

 tated ceruffe, or  vitriolated zinc.  If thefe
 fail, try camphorated fpt. a folution of prepa-
 red kali, or white calx of quickfilver mixed
 with pomatum.  If they proceed from foul
 blood or a fcorbutic caufe (as it is termed)
 treat them with alteratives, as dire&ed for
 the Land Scurvy; with now and then a cool-
 ing purge.
        PINK, INDIAN, root.
Sedative, anthelmintic ;  5j- to 3ifs.   Alfo hi
 infufion, 3iij- to iv.
        PITCH, BURGUNDY.
Stimulant, epifpaftic,externally applied.  Com-
 pound plaster of.  The fame.
               PLAGUE.
Symptoms.  Shivering ; pain in the head, back,
 and ftomach ; ficknefs and vomiting ; def-
 pondency; anxiety; difficult breathing; wild-
 nefs 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 if the tumours fink. Fetid breath
 and fweat; livid fpots, fometimes broad, and
 fuddenly difappearing.  Carbuncles arife in
 the worft  ftate of the difeafe, which feldom
 fuppurate kindly, but appear as red fiery cir-
 cles; they are fmall tumours, with corrupted
                                      flefh 
PLE
107
 flefh underneath, and attended with great itch-
 ing. The fymptoms, however, vary accord-
 ing to the conftitution and ftate of the air, but
 thefe are the moft general.
Treatment. The tumours are critical, and fhould
 be encouraged by ripening cataplafms, and
 proper cordials ;  the  carbuncles fliould be
 poulticed with cataplafms of cummin, or the
 like ; and if they appear gangrenous, fcarify,
 and drefs them with  oil of turpentine, and
 hot digftives, as in Mortifications.
The difeafe itfelf fhould be treated with diapho-
 retics, antifeptics, cordials, antiphlogiftics, or
 other remedies, according to the fymptoms :
 but in general, camphor, nitre,fhakeroot, and
 bark, &c. an emetic being firft  given  feem
 moft eligible in this dreadful diforder.
N. B. Thevapourgeneratedbynitre,efpecially
 if the deflagration be made with odoriferous
 ingredients, is faid to  prevent infection.
Inoculation has lately been recommended in the
 Plague by Dr. Samoilowitz, a Ruffian phyfi-
 cian ; but if the difeafe be liable to attack
 more than once, which feems to be the cafe,
 this can be of no ufe.
               PLEURISY.
Symptoms. Chillincfs and fhivering, fucceeded
 by heat,thirft, and reftleffnefs; a violent acute
 pain on one fide, near the ribs, extending to-
                                      wards 
108       POI            POM

 wards the fhoulder-blades, back, and breaft,
 and worft when the affected fide is lain on;
 difficult breathing ;  rednefs of the cheeks ;
 naufea ; and dry cough ;  the matter fpit up,
 if any, yellowifh or bloody.
Treatment as in the Peripneumony ; but repeated
 bleeding, laxatives, and cooling attenuants,
 as fait of hartfhorn with nitre, are chiefly to
 be relied on.
                POISONS.
Treatment.  When thefe are taken, if the time
 have been but fhort, give a ftrong emetic of
 white or blue vitriol, drinking plentifully of
 warm water to wafh the ftomach ; oily clyf-
 ters fliould alfo be givenrepeatedly; as fhould
 likewife cathartics.  If muriated quickfilver
 were the poifon, give' a folution of any fixed
 alkaline fait.  If  opium,  or other narcotic,
 give acids  (as vinegar) with Watei or brodr ;
 apply  blifters ; and, if neceffary, bleed. A-
 gainll all mineral poifons, fulphurated kali
 has been recommended. Care muft be taken
 to continue thefe operations afufficient time;
 afterwards the ftomach and bowels fhould be
 healed with proper balfamic remedies,broths,
 &c.
POMEGRANATE,  shell  and flowers.
Tonic,  aftringent: 9fs. to 3fs.   Alfo in de-
 coction.
                                  POPPY, 
          POP           POX      ico

       POPPY, CORN, FLOWERS.
Weakly fedative.
        POPPY, WHITE, head.
Sedative.  Syrup of. gfs. to?ii's.  Extract
  qf.  As opium, in about double the dofe.
        POWDER, ALOET1C.
Cathartic,  deobftruent;  BCs. to 5rs-
      ---WITH GUAIACUM.
Deobftruent, fudorific, antirheumatic ; gr. v.
  to x.  Cathartic ;  By to By
          ---WITH IRON.
Emmenagogue ;  9fs. to 3-s.
         ---ANTIMONIAL.
See Antimony.
          ---AROMATIC.
Gr. v. to By
            ---OPIATE.
Gr. x. contain i  of opium.
       POX.   See Ve.-icreal Diflcfc.
   POX, CHICKEN ;  or SWINE POX.
Symptoms.  Chillinefs, heat, and the ufual pre-
  curfory fymptoms of fever ; but milder than
  in the fmall pox. The eruptions appear about
  the third day.  They  rile like thofe of the
  fmall pox, but may be  known from them by
  the matter being more like water than pus;
            K                         by 
$ id       POX           QUA

  by little veficles, or bladders filled with water
  on the top of fuch puftules as ; re whole; and
  by their tinning about the fifth day ; which
- the others do not till at leaft"the feventh.
Treatraeat.  Cooling febrifuges, as nitre, with
  magnefia, antimonials, faline draughts, &e.
  and dilueuts ; and  afterwards  two or three
  purges.
The S-vine Pcx is only a larger fort of Chicken
  J'ox.
      POX, SMALL.  See Small Pox.
PROCIDENTIA,vel PROLAPSUS ANI
    OR BEARING DOWN OF THE RECTUM,
Treatment.  Corroborants, as bark,  &c. laxa-
  tive7, clyfters, and'aperients, if coftivej clyf-
  ters of infufion of roles, or ether bracers ;
  chalybeates and cold bathing. N. B. If there
  be inflammation, emollient fomentations and
  poultices.   The part fliould-be gently redu-
  ced, and kept up with a bandage ; reft and
  an horizontal pofture are proper.
Prolapsus Uteri.   Treatment as in the pre-
  ceding cafe.  Pelfaries are alfo  proper to be
  worn,
                PRUNES.
Laxative, cooling.
               QUASSIA,
          WOOD, BARK, AND ROOT.
Tonic, corrector cf putrid bile ;  gr. v. to xv.
'••-in infufion.                      QUICK- 
QUI
iu
           QUICKSILVER.
All the preparations of quickfilver, taken inter-
 nally, are antivenereal, alterative, decbiiru-;
 ent, and vermifuge. Taken freely they induce
 falivation. The preparations now directed by
 the college are: Acetated.  gr. ij. to vj.
 Calcined,  gr. fs. to ij.   Muriated. gr.
 •s'o to fs.   Mild  muriated, or Calomel.
 gr. i. to iv.  Fills  of.  Bis. to 3ft-  REO
 sulphurated, gr. iij. to 9j.   Vitriolat-
 ed. gr. fs. to j.   As an emetic ;  gr. iv. to
 viij.  Alfo an errhine.  With  chalk. By
 to 3fs.   With sulphur.  Bj. to 5j«  The
 following are for external ufe.  Red nitra-
 ted.   Efcharotic.   White calx of.  Re-
 pellent, difcutient.   Ointment of, mild-
 ;er and stronger.  The fame.   The latter
 is generally employed to excite falivation.
 Ointment of nitrated.  Chiefly in cuta-
 neous  affections.   Ointment  or  whit a
 calx of.  The fame.  Plaster of ammo-
 niacum with.   Refolvent.  Plaster of
 litharge with.   The fame.
       QUINCE, fruit and seed.
Fruit, cooling, reftringent.   Seed, obtunding.
               QUINCY.
Symptoms.' Inflammation of the  throat, with
 pain, great heat, tumour, redru-fi, difficulty 
ui       RAI           RHE

 in fwallowing, and fever; the uvula  fome-
 times relaxed and inflamed ; the face red.
Treatment.   Bleed according to exigency ; o-
 pen the body ; blifters to the back, and near
 the part  ; gargle with water of ammonia
 and comp. decoct, of barley, ftrong of the
 former ;  poultice the part with  bread and
 milk, to which camphor may be added ; and
 the liniment of ammonia may alfo be applied.
 If it fuppurate, ceafe to evacuate ; and inhale
 emollient fleams.  When ripe open the ab-
 fcefs; afterwards gargle with infufion of rofes
 and tinct. cf myrrh.
                RAISINS.
Obtunding, aperient.
        RASPBERRY, the fruit.
Cooling, antifeptic.
       ^RATTLESNAKE-ROOT.
Diuretic,  diaphoretic,  antifeptic ;  j?j. to 3fs.
  It fometimes falivates.
           REFRIGERANTS.
Nitre, water of acetated ammonia, cryftalsof
 tartar, forrel,  fimple oxymel,  tamarinds,
 prunes, fummer fruits, acids.
     RESIN,  YELLOW, cerate of.
Digeftive.   Ointment of.   The fame.
        RHEUMATISM, acute.
Symptoms.  Rigour, ftiivering, fever, thirft, cr,f-
                                  tivenefs, 
RHE
ll$
- tivenefs, wandering gnawing  pains, with
 fwelling and  rednefs in the part affected.
 The pain worfe towards night, and in bed.
Treatment. Bleeding; fait of hartfliorn, nitre,
 camphor,  guaiacum,  antimonials,  or  the
 like ; laxatives, and  opiates  occafionally.
 The part may be nibbed with lin. of foap,
 camphor*  and oil ; lin. of  ammonia, &c.
 Warm fomentations are good ;  the part may
 be covered with flannel, diluents fhould be
 freely given, and  a diaphorefis  kept up.
 When the urine depofits a copioas fediment,
 the bark may be given; it may  be joined
 with fome of the above, and opium  may be
 occafionally added.
       RHEUMATISM, chronic,
Differs from the acute, in that it is not attended
 with fever or inflammation in the part; and
 chiefly attacks thofe advanced in life, contra-
 ry to the other;
Treatment. If neceffary,.bleed, and purge with
 elect, of fcammony, fcnna, Sec.  Compound
 powder  of ipecacuanha,  or other anodyne
 fudorific, may be given :• calomel in  fmall
 dofes, with wine of antim. has been found ef-
 ficacious ;  as hath likewife precipitated ful-
 phur of antimony, with camphor, about three
 grains of each.   Bark and farfaparilla are
 given by fome ; but gum guaiacum with vol-
            k z                        ittile 
RHU            RIC
 atile falts, the guaiacum with an opiate, Or
 fait of hartfliorn with nitre, and the camph.
 mixture, according to circumftances, are gen-
 erally fuccefsful.   Sydenham praifes con-
 ferve of arum.   Warm embrocations  to the
 part, and flannel, are alfo ferviceable; cold
 bathing,  where  not  improper  on other ac-
 counts ; a flannel fhirt worn  next the fkin,
 is  a good preventive of a return.  N.  B.
 Muftard has been effectual, taken inwardly,
 and rubbed into the  part.  Electricity, fric-
 tion, and exercife of the part, are ufeful.

           RHUBARB, root.
Cathartic ; 9j. to 3j. or more.  Stomachic ;
 gr.  iv.   to  ,*vs-  Tincture,  compound
 tincture, and wine of. 3j. to 3\J-  As
 a cathartic ;  §fs. 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, caufing incurvation
 and diftortion ; the ribs protuberate, and be-
 come crooked '; the belly fwells ; cough and
 pulmonary dilbrders fucceed.  The  difeafe
 ufually appears about the eighth month, and
 continues till the fixth year; the child  moves
                                   weakly 
          RIN            RUP       115

 weakly and waddles;  the  underftanding is
 very early.
Treatment.  Cold bathing ;  friction ;  bathing
 the back with fpirituous  embrocations, or
 v. arm  balfamic  liniments ;  ftrengthening
 platters ;  gentle vomits of ipecacuanha ;
 purges with Thubarb  and quickfilver  with
 fulphur;  bark,  chalybeates,  air, and exer-
 cife.
       RING WORMS. See Tetters.
  ROSE,  DAMASK,  the flower leaf.
Laxative.  Water of.   As a perfume.
      --- RED, the  flower leaf.
Aftringent; gr. v. to 3s.   Conserve  of.
 $'y to 3ij- or more.  Infusion of.   §ij. to
 §ir.  Honey of.  A mild, cooling detei>
 gent.  Chiefly in gargles.
     ROSEMARY, top and flower.
Cephalic,  carminative,  nervous, in infufion.
 Essential  oil  of.  gt. ij. to iv.   Spirit
 of. 3fs to 5j.   Externally as a ftimulus.
                 RUE.
Nervous, antifpafmodic, alexipharmic,antipef-
 tilential; 3fs. to 3j.  Alfo in infufion. Juice
 in clyfters, vermifuge.   Extract of.  Bis.
 to Bj.
       RUPTURES.    See Hernia.
                             SAFFRON. 
 u 6      SAF           SAR

               SAFFRON.
 Cordial, gr. iij. to Bj. alfo in infufion.  S vruf
  of.  3j. or more.
             SAGAPENUM.
 Aperient, ftimulant, nervous ; gr. V. to  $fs«
, twice a day.
            SAGE, the  leaf.
 Tonic.
      ST. JOHN'S-WORT, flower.
 Tonic.
          SAL AMMONIAC.
 Attenuant, febrifuge ;  gr. v. to Bj.  Diuretic,
  diaphoretic; to 3j- In a large dofe it proves
  emetic.  Externally  difcutient.
            SALT, COMMON.
 Stimulant. Chiefly in clyfters.  A table fpoon-
  ful, taken dry, has been found very efficacious
  in flopping hasmoptyfis.
         SANDERS, RED, wood.
 Slightly tonic.
             SARCOCOLLA.
 Obtunding, flightly ftimulant.
        SARSAPARILLA, root.
 Alterative, antivenereal, obtunding,tonic, 3fs-
  to 3\j.  Decoction of.   Ifefs. to ftj.  Com-
  pound.  The fame.   This  is an elegant
  mode of preparing the Lifbon Diet Drink.
                                   SAS- 
SAS            SCA        117
             SASSAFRAS,
   WOOD, ROOT, AND BARK OF THE ROOT.
Alterative, antifcorbutic,tonic, fudorific; dofe
 as in Sarfapariila.   Essential oil of. gt,
 j. to x.
            SAVINE, leaf.
Stimulant, diuretic, emmenagogue; 3fs. to 3j«
 In infufion,  ?ij. to §iv.   Compound  tinc-
 ture of.  gt.  x. to 3j«  Extract of.  3fs?
 to Bij.
          SCALDS, or burns.
Treatment.   Apply  oil  of linfeed  alone, or
 mixed with an equal quantity of lime-water ;
 but preparations of lead have been  found
 particularly beneficial; afterwards cerate of
 calamine, or other cicatrizer.   If inflamma-
 tion render it necelfary, bleed and purge.
            SCALD-HEAD.
Treatment.  Rub  the part with ointments made
 of fulphur, pitch, tobacco, or the like ; the
 ointment of white calx of quickfilver has
 been  ufed with fuccefs ; bathing with fait
 water ; mercurials, antimonials, or other al-
 teratives ; blifters kept open, and iffues, are
 proper.
             SCAMMONY.
Cathartic ; gr. v. to  Bj.  Compound powder
  of.  gr. iv. to xvy   ----with  aloes, to
                                      Bj. 
nS       SCI
SCR
 Bj. ---- WITH CALOMEL. tO Bj.   ELECTU-
 ARY of. 5fs« to ij-
               SCIATICA.
Symptoms.   A fixed pain  in the hip, like the
 rheumatifm.  Called alfo the Hip Gout and
 Ifchias.
Treatment as in Lumbago.
   SCIRRHUS, OR HARDENED GLANDS.
"freatment.  Endeavour to  difperfe by mercu-
 rial uftction, ext. of hemlock, or mercurials,
 with farfaparilla, &c. and occafional purges.
 If it incline to fuppurate, treat it as directed
 in abfceffes, &c  If it neither difperfe nor
 fuppurate, extirpation is the only cure, where
 it can be done ; otherwife treat it with  cool-
 ers, and occafional anodynes.
              SCORDIUM.
Aftringent.
             SCROPHULA.
Symptoms. Scirrhous unequal tumours, which
 do  not readily fuppurate, affecting the glan-
 dular parts, but chiefly on  the fides of the
 neck ; frequently an  enlargement  of the
 nofe and  upper lip, and fometimes of the
 belly.
Treatment. Purge occafionally with jalap and
 calomel ;  and give alteratives, as calomel,
 with precipitated fulph. cf antimon. or  fome
                                    other} 
SCU                nc>
 ether ; millepedes are good ; burnt fponge
 with rhubarb ;  fea-water internally before
 fuppuration, and bark and fea-bathing after
 they foften ; exercife is good ;  grofs  and
 high feafoned diet muft be avoided ; vege-
 table acids,  efpecially Seville oranges, are
 proper ; electricity is fometimes  beneficial.
 Muriated barytes has lately been much Com-
 mended.
                SCURVY.
Symptoms.   Heavinefs,  laffitude, low fpirits ;
 offenfive breath ; tender gums ; fallow bloat-
 ed countenance ; hemorrhages from the nofe
 and mouth ; difficult breathing ; fwelling of
 the legs ;  yellow,  purple, or livid fpots en
 the fkin ; tumours in tire limbs ; contraction
 of the tendons of the ham.   Other fymptoms
 occur,  but they differ in different fubjects, as
 do likewife thofe above mentioned ; and the
 difeafe is in general fufficiently known.   It
 is, however, diftinguifhed into Sea and Land
 Scurvy.
Treatment.   In the Sea  Scurvy, the  juices are
 difpofed to putridity from the ufe of animal
 food, and moift air ; antifeptics  therefore
 will be proper, as vegetables, vegetable acids,
 fruit, cider, &c.  Infufion of malt, in defect
 of thefe, or liquors made of molaffes or fugar.
 Bark and  vitrioli;  acid are good.   Liquids
                               impregnated 
scu
SED
 impregnated with fixed air for common drfnk,
 and v holefome air.  Chalybeates have been
 found  ferviceable,  efpecially  when joined
 with the bitters, or bark.  Burying the pa-
 rient up to the chin in frefh dug earth has
 been found  extremely ferviceable.
The Land Scurvy (improperly fo called)  is
 rather a cutaneous difeafe ; fcurfy or fcabby
 eruptions appear, either partially,  or more
 univerfally ; often with itching and heat.
The antimonial alteratives,with gentle mercu-
 rials, are frequently efficacious ; lime water,
 or the compound juice of fcurvygrafs, may
 be ufed with them.  Cryftals  of tartar and
 flowers of fulphur are good.   The parts may
 be anointed with faturnine liniments, with a
 little white  calx of quickfilver,  if neceffary.
      SCURVYGRASS,  GARDEN.
Stimulant, antifcorbutic; the juice or infufion,
 §ij. to §iv. twice a day.  Compound juice
 of.  §j. to iv.
               SEDATIVES.
Soporific.  Opium,  poppy, animal oil, oil of
 wine,  compound  fpirit of  vitriolic sether,
 fpirits of nitrous and vitriolic aether.  Nar-
 cotic.  Blue wolf's-bane, deadly nightfhade,
 hemlock, bay leaf, bitter almond, Indian
 pink.  Topical. Opium, preparations of lead,
 cerate of foap.
                                SENEKA. 
SEN
SKI       121
     SENEKA.   See Rattlefnake-root.
           SENNA, THE LEAF.
Cathartic ;  3j- to  5iij.  Compound powder
 of. 3fs. to 3j-  Electuary of.  gfs. to 5ij.
 Extract  of. Bij. to 3j.  Simple infu-
 sion of. Bj- to Bij-  Tartarised infusion
 of.  The fame. Tincture of.  |fs. to gij.
           SETON, TO  MAKE.
Pinch up the fkin and fat with the finger and
 thumb, and  run  a proper needle through
 them, armed  with a fkein of fiik or tliread
 fmeared with digeftive  ointment ;  which
 muft be fhifted a little every day, fo as  to
 keep both  orifices running.
 I     SHINGLES.  See Tetters.
           SIALAGOGUES.
"topical.  Tobacco, pellitory of  Spain, arum,
 angelica, pepper, cloves.   Internal.   Prepa-
 rations of quickfilver, rattltihake-root.
        SILVER, NITRATED.
Formerly Lunar Cauflic.
         SIMAROUBA, bark.
Tonic, aftringent; Bfs. to }is.   Alfo in de-
 coction.
       SINGULTUS.  See Hiccups.   •
SKIN, diseases OF.   See Cutaneous Difafes.
         L                     SLOES, 
121       SLO
SMA
                 SLOES.
Aftringent.   Conserve of. 3-ij« to Sij«
              SMALL-POX.
Symptoms.  Chillinefs ; fhivering ; heat; pain
 in the head and back ; ficknefs and pain at
 the ftomach, and fometimes vomiting; fever;
 coftivenefs ; convulfive fits fometimes in chil-
 dren, which is  a good fymptom.   On the
 third or fourth day the eruptions appear, like
 flea-bites, in the face, breaft, arms, body and
 feet fucceffively,with pains and forenefsin the
 throat.   The eruption being completed, the
 fever goes off or abates.  The eruptions fill,
 or maturate like boils, and the fkin between
 them is red ; the eye-lids, face, hands  arfd
 feet fwell fucceflively ; the pocks, from red
 grow whitifh and fmooth in the body, yellow
 and rough in the face, and are full of white
 matter.  About the  feventh day from the
 eruption (fometimes  the ninth) they dry, or
 turn, as ' it is called, and  fcale off, leaving
 red marks, and fometimes pits behind.
Treatment.'  If the pulfe be full and ftrong at
 the beginning, bleed; and, if neeeflary, or the
 period  be fufficiently  early, purge, and  give
 an emetic.   During the eruptive fever, cool-
 ing-febrifuges, with laxatives, or clyfters oc-
 cafionally ; but if the fymptoms require it (as
                                      low 
SMA
m
 low pulfe, Sec.) gentle cordials and diaphoret-
 ics.   After the eruption,  little is generally
 required but a gentle anodyne at night, proper
 diluents, and, if neceffary, opening clyfters,
 &c.  If purging come on, checlt it with cau-
 tion : if delirium or fever, apply blifters; and
 if the pock finks, give bark, with proper dia-
 phoretics and cordials ; efpecially if malignat
 or putrid fymptoms, or petechia appear.  Spt.
 of vitiolic  aether is alfo good in thefe cafes,
 as are finapifms to the feet.
In the Confluent kind, all thefymptoms are worfe
 than in the diflind.   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 alfo continues af-
 ter the eruption appears, and a falivation comes
 on, which  muft by  no means  be checked.
 The patient requires to be fupported more in
 this cafe than in the other;  care, however,
 muft  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 falutary.  If the puftuies be  opened, and
 the matter let out, fo much  the better ; ef-
 pecially if danger of their finking or ftriking
 in appears. Purging is efteemed proper after
 this difeafe.
To inoculate for the Small Pox, take a little mat-
                                        ter 
SNA           SOA
 ter from a puftule, after the eruptive fever, on
 the point of a lancet, and infert it in the arm
 (by making a fmall puncture or two) between
 the true and fcarf fkin, which may afterwards
 be preffed down with the flat fide of the lan-
 cet. Three or four days afterwards the punc-
 tures appear inflamed  ; in about three days
 more, the precurfory fymptoms come on arid
 at length the eruption.
Previous to the inoculation, a mercurial purge
 or two may be adminiftered, if the patient be
 of a full or grofs habit; and he fhould alfo
 -be reftrained to  a milk  and farinacious or
 vegetable diet, avoiding efpecially high fea-
 foned food.  It is found beft to keep him out
 of bed and much in the cold air.  The fymp-
 toms are generally fo favourable, that little af-
 > fifiance is required from medicine, except a
 few mercurial purges  after  the diforder goes
 ■ off.

     SNAKE ROOT, VIRGINIAN.
 Stimulant, tonic; Bfs.  to  51s.   Alfo in infu-
 fion to 3j- or ij. Tincture of. 3j« to 3iv.

                 SOAP.
 Diuretic,icteric,lithontriptic,attenuant; Bj. to
 5'j- twice a  day. Cerate of.  Aftringent,
 fedative.  Compound liniment of.   Dif-
' cutient,  ftrengthening.  Plaster of.  Rer
 folvent.                           SORE 
SOR           SPH
  SORE THROAT,  putrid.   See Angina
                  maligna.
       SORREL, COMMON, leaves.
  Cooling, antifeptic.
           ---- WOOD, LEAVES.
  The fame.  Conserve of.   At pleafure,
           SOUTHERNWOOD.
  Tonic, antifeptic.
         SPASMS.   See Convulftons.
              SPERMACETI.
  Pectoral,  obtunding,  emollient; Bj. to  5j«
    Ointment of.  Healing, foftening.
              SPHACELUS^
        OR COMPLETE MORTIFICATION.
  Symptoms.   This fucceeds a Gangrene (which
  fee) if it cannot be ftopt:  the part lofes all
  fenfation, and yields  an intolerable fmell.
  Treatment as in Gangrene.  When the fepara-
  tion is advanced, amputate the limb, or cut
  out the part, if it can be done with fafety ;
  perfifting in the ufe of the bark, Sec. till a com-
  plete digeftion is procured.  When accom-
  panied with convulfive fpafms, or occafioned
  by them, or by local injury producing irrita-
-  tion, large and frequent dofes of mufk and
  fait of hartfhorn have proved very efficacious.
  The dofes have been augmented from Bfs.
  to 3ij. of each.                   SPIRIT,
             L 2 
126       SPI             STI

      SPIRIT, CAMPHORATED.
Externally ftimulant, difcutient.
SPLEEN.  See Hypochondriacal and Hyfleric
                 Difeafes.
               SPONGE.
Externally ftyptic.  Burnt.  Stimulant, re-
 folvent ;  Bj. to 3fs.
         SPRAINS.  See Strains.
            SQUILL, root.
Stimulant, diuretic,expectorant; gr. iij. to viij.
 Emetic ; Bfs. to  Bj.  Conserve of.  31s.
 to 5j.  Oxymel of.  3fs- to'Sifs.   Emetic ;
 §fs.   Pill of.  gr. v. to xx.   Vinegar of.
 3fs. to 3j-  Emetic; i&.  Honey pF. 3fs.
 to 3ifs;  Emetic ; to §fs.   Tincture pF,
 Bfs. to 3j-
      STARCH,  MUCILAGE OF.
An ufeful clyfter in diarrhoea.  Troches of.
 Pectoral.
         STAVE SAC RE, seed.
Externally in fome kinds of cutaneous erup-
 tions, and for deftroying vermin.
            STIMULANTS.
Electricity, aether, mufk, volatile alkalis, ale"
 hoi, wine, rectified oil el amber, effential oil:-,
 German leopard's bane, afnrabacca, Syrian
 herb-maftic, peiiitory of Spain, pepper, muf-
                                     tard,  -\ 
STI            STO       127
S$ard, hcrferadifh,arum, fquill,ammoniacum.,
  fnakeroot, zedv .'ary, contrayerva, peppermint,
  marjoram,  pennyroyal, favine, elecampane,
  eryngo, fturvy gr afs,watercrefs, dill, cummin,
  coriander, wild carrot, parfley, afafcetida, fa-
  gapenum, opoponax, frankincenfe, farcocol-
  la, borax, common fait, tar, fulphurated foffil
  tar and oil, compound tincture of benjamin,
  mineral acids, Aromatics.  Externally.  Oil of
  turpentine, camphorated fpirit, fpirit of rofe-
  mary, ladanum, gum elemi, Epifpaflics.
           STINGS, VENOMOUS.
 Treatment -as  in Bites.
      STOMACFI, INFLAMMATION OF.
 Symptoms.  Heat, pulfation, and acute pain in
  "the part, which is increafed by fwallowing ;
  tenfion at the pit cf the ftomach ; anxiety ;
  continual retching  ; hiccup ;  fmall,  weak,
  intermitting- pulfe.
 Treatment.   Bleeding, emollient liquids, and
  clyfters ; fomentations ; gentle opiates ; blif-
  ters ; mucilage of  gum  arabic ; with fmall
  dofes of nitre occafionally.
    STOMACH, pain in.   See Heart-burn.
              STOMACHICS.
 Gentian, camomile, orange and lemon peel,
  columbo, quaflia, bark, rhubarb, effential oil
  of juniper, plafter of ladanum.
     J    v    *                      STONE 
12$
STO
        STONE and GRAVEL.
Symptoms.  Pain in the back and loins, or the
 region of the bladder ; naufea ;  vomiting ;
 iftrangury ; fometimes bloody unite ; coftive-
 nefs ; retraction of the tefticle of the affect-
 ed fide ; numbnefs down the thigh and leg.
 When the calculus is got into the  bladder,
 the pain  in the kidneys abates, and the urine
 becomes  turbid.
Treatment,    Bleed, if no  objection  appear ;
 draughts with oil of almonds and large quan-
 tities of gum arabic, with manna and opium
 added occafionally.  As folvents, the water
 of pure  kali from x. to xxx. or xl. drops in
 veal broth  twice a day.  Soap, oyfter-fhells,
 and lime-water, are alfo good  ; and in fome
 C ifes, the fait of hartfhorn,  or marine acid.
 Water impregnated  with fixed  air, or  the
 mephitic alkaline water, and the effervefcent
 mixture, have been  found folvents in fome
 cafes ; as have alfo fpt. of nitrous aether, uva
 urfi, live millepedes, and decoction or oil of
 juniper.   In violent  fits of the diforder, the
 femicupium is good; and clyfters with Venice
 turpentine, or oil of turpentine, and opium.
 In naufea and vomiting, the faline draughts,
 with tinct. of opium; and care fhould be taken
 to keep the body properly open with cathar-
 tics of the ccoling faline kind, or rather ^vith
                                   manna, 
STO           SUD
 manna, caftor oil, and inf. of fenna, or other
 mild purge.  Milk of almonds, decoction of
 marfhmallow roots, or the like, may be ufed
 freely as common drink.  (See  alfo Colic,
 Stone; and Urine, Suppreffion of.J
               STORAX.
Pectoral, tonic ; gr. v. to Bj,
               STRAINS,
If internal, give fpermaceti, or compound tinc-
 ture of benjamin, with fpruce beer.   If out-
 ward, apply lin. of foap, vinegar, lin. of am-
 monia, or arquebufade.   If there be inflam-
 mation, foment and poultice, bleed and purge.
            STRANGURY.
Symptoms.   A difficulty of making water, at-
 tended with heat or fcalding : it  often pro-
 ceeds from blifters.
Treatment.  Give milk of almonds or mucilage
 of gum arabic freely.   If thefe fail, bolufes
 of camphor and opium.  See Urine,
              STYPTICS.
Blue vitriol, alcohol, compound tinct. of ben-
 jamin, vitriolated iron, alum, acetated ceruffe,
 lint, flour, fponge. Internal.  All aflringents,
             SUDORIFICS.
Calefacient. Guaiacum,contrayerva,fhakeroot,
 rattlefnake-root, faffafras, mezereon.  Stimu-
                                      lant, 
SUL           TAB
 lant.  Volatile alkalis,antimonials, fal ammo-
 niac, infpiffated juice of elder-berries.  Anti-
fpafmodic. Compound powder of ipecacuanha,
 opiate confection, camphor, fpirits of nitrous
 and vitriolic aether, warm bath, vapour bath.
 Diluent. Vinegar whey, aqueous liquors.
      SULPHUR, FLOWERS OF.
Pectoral, alterative, aperient; Bj. to 3ij«  Pre?
 cipitated.  The fame. Washed flowers
 of.  The fame.  Ointment of.  For  the
 itch.
    SWINE-POX.  See Pox, Chicken.
         TABES  DORSALIS.
Symptoms.  A wafting of the whole body, at-
 tended with fever,  but no fpitting or cough,
 by which it is known from a Phthifls.  A col-
 lection of matter in fome part of the body is
 ufually the caufe, but it particularly attends
 the inflammation of a fcirrhous gland.
Treatment.  If it arife from a fcirrhous liver,
 foap, and mild chalybeates. If the fcirrhus
 or abfcefs be external, open or extirpate. The
 bark is often proper in thefe cafes, as is alfo
 myrrh with nitre, or vitriolated kali. The bo-
 dy muft be kept properly open; but purgings
 fhould be checked.  Gentle exercife, whole-
 fome air, and proper mild diet, with the ufe of
 affes milk, and the like, are often of much
 ferviceT                           TAM- 
TAM           TEE'
        TAMARIND, the fruit.
Cooling, antifeptic, laxative ; at pleafure.
       TANSY, flower  and herb.
Tonic, anthelmintic ; Bj. to Bij.
                  TAR.
Stimulant, diuretic.  Made into pills with pow-
 der of elecampane ; 3fs- of the mafs is given
 for a dofe in diforders of the DTeaft, cutane-
 ous difeafes, &c.  Of Tar-water ftj. or ftij.
 may be drunk in  a day.  Ointment  of.
 Digeftive.  Alfo in cutaneous difeafes.
   ---FOSSIL, or BARBADOES.
Stimulant.   Oil of.  The fame, but more
 acrid.  Sulphurated.   Stimulant, pecto-
 ral ; gt. v. to xx.
     TARTAR,  CRYSTALS OF.
Cooling, opening ; 3ij. to §j.
             TEETHING.
Symptoms.  Inflammation and fwelling of the
 gums, with Havering ; fever ; and fometimes
 convulfions.
Treatment. Cabling febrifuges in cafe of fever ;
 the body fhould be.kept gently open.  If con-
 vulfions arife, give tinct. of afafcetida and car-
 minatives, or oil of anifeed with magnefia; if
 a rafh appear, compound  powder of contra-
 yerva with nitre is ufually given; if a cough,
                               fpermaceti 
TEN           TET
 fpermaceti or otherbalfamicpectoral: leeches
 and blifters may be applied if neceffary ; and
 if the diforder be violent, the gums fliould be
 lanced;  Gentle anodynes are often ufeful.
              TENESMUS.
Symptoms.  Frequent, or even  continual incli-
 nation to go to ftool, without occafion, or
 being able to void any.
Treatment.   Clyfters, writh mutton broth and
 opiUm ; or with  ftarch, oil,  and compound
• powder of chalk ; or with fpermaceti, fuet,
 or the like.   Spermaceti with opium may
 alfo be given inwardly.
       TESTICLES, inflamed.
Treatment.   Bleed,  purge, and even vomit, if
 neceffary, in order to caufe revulfion. Warm
 emollient fomentations and poultices are ufu-
 ally  recommended ; but cold applications to
 the part are much more efficacious.  Febri-
 fuges and gentle diaphoretics, with an opi-
 ate at night, are good.  If matter form, open
 and  let it out.   The tefticles fhould  be fuf-
 pended, and the patient kept as much as
 poffible in an horizontal pofture.
              TETANOS.
Symptoms.  A rigid and painful contraction of
 the mufcles of the neck and trunk  of  the
 body, drawing  it backwards or forwards in
                                  a curve, 
                  TET                133

 a curve, with convulfions ; fometimes an at-
 tempt to fwallow liquids produces general
 ccnvulfion, as in hydrophobia.
Treatment.  Give large dofes of mulk and opi-
 um, keeping die body open with caftor oil,
 or other proper purge.  The warm bath, e •
 moliient fomentations and fpirituous embro-
 cations to tire parts, are good ; fo are fait of
 hartfliorn, nervous  medicines, and clyfters
 with turpentine and opium. If it be the con-
 fequence of local injury, excite  inflamma-
 tion in the part injured.  After the diforder
 give bark, or other  reftoratives.

              TETTERS.
Treatment.   They may be touched with  in!-:,
 a weak folution of vitriolated  iron or zinc,
 acetated ceruffe, prepared kali, or muriated
 quickfilver.  If thefe prove too violent, fott-
 ening  and cooling liniments,  or  cream.
 Camphorated fpirit and the ointment of th~
 white calx of quickfilver are good.  Some-
 times alteratives of the mercurial and  anti-
• monial kind, or cooling febrifuges and pur-
 ges, are neceffary.
Pimples, Ringworms, Shingles., Gruhs, Freckles,
 and other like cutaneous complaints, alfo give
 way to fome of the above methods.
           M                THISTLE, 
154       THI        '   TOB

         THISTLE, BLESSED.
Tonic, if lightly  infufcd :  ftrong  decoction
 emetic.   In-powder, dofe Bj.'to 3j-
["          THROAT, SORE.
     See Quiuey 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
 magnefia or rhubarb ;  give the faline  mix-
 ture, with comp. powder of contrayerva, arJd
 touch the ulcers  now and then with fyr. of
: mulberries and borax, or with alum, French-
 bole and honey, infufion of rofes, &c.  See
-. alfo Fever  A; hthofe, Fever  Miliary, Angina
 gangrenofa, and Venereal Difeafe.

          TIN, POWDER OF.
Vermifuge ; 3ij. to  gj.
           -TOBACCO, leaf.
Powerfully diuretic ; fometimes emetic, pur-
 gative, and diaphoretic: frequently produces
 giddinefs and naufea.   If one ounce of the
 f eft Virginian"tobacco be infufed in a pint of
' boiling  water for  an  hour,  and  Bxiv.  be
 ftrained off, adding to them gij. of alcohol,
1 gt.  xl. to hi. or more, may be given twice a
                                     day 
           TON          TOO       i§5

 day.   An ounce of this infufion, in half a
 pint of gruel, may be given as a ftimulating
 clyfter, inftead  of the common one of tobac-
 co fmoke.  Some prefer an infufion in Span-
 ifh white wine,  §j. to ftj.
                TONICS.
Iron, alum, blue vitriol, vitriolated and 'cal-
 cined zinc, mineral acids, bark, quaffia, co-
 lumbo, gentian, camomile, oak, galls, leffer
 centaury, cafcarilla, logwood, pomegranatS
 fhell and flower, fimarouba, tor menttl, b i it ort,
 ginfeng,  zedoary, bay, bleffed thiftle, worm-
 wood, horehound, fouthernwood, cinquefoil,
 tanfy, buckbean, uva urfi, mint, fage, balm,
 elm, clove-july-flowers, valerian, fnakeroot,
 contrayerva, faffafras, farfaparilla, coltsfoot,
 orris, kino, balfams of Canada, Capivi, and
• Peru,frankincenfe, turpentine,maftic, myrrh',
 olibanum, ftorax, compound tincture of ben-
 jamin, amber, dragon's-blood. Tojical.  Vin-
 egar, camphorated fpirit, liniment of fo.iu,
 Aflringents.
            TOOTH-ACHE.
Treatment.  If hollow or decayed, apply com-
 pound tincture of benjamin, or fome effential
 pil, upon cotton, to the  part ; or  pills  with
 camphor  and  opium ; or chew the root of
 pellitory .of Spain.   Some burn  the nerve
                                      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  blifters behind the ears.  ■' If it proceed
 from Cold or Rheumatifm, treat as is directed
 for thofe complaints.  Vitriolated  zinc  in
 naufeating doles has been effectual, and like-
 wife electricity.
          TORMENTIL, root.
Tcnic, aftringent;  Bij. to 5j.
         TRAGACANTH, gum.
Obtunding.   Cotound powder  of.  3&« to
 3'iij.
               TREMORS.
Treatment as in Nervous Complaints and Palfy.
         TUMOURS, encysted.
Try to difperfe then/, with quickfilver ointments
 or plaflers, friction, or electricity; if thefe
 fail, hemlock fomentations and poultices, and
 give infpiffated juice of hemlock, or mercu-
 rials, with  farfaparilla, &c. and  occafional
 purges. If you cannot difperfe them,endeav-
 our at fuppuration ; if that fail, extirpation,
 where it can be done, is the only cure.
          TURMERIC,  root.
Aperient, diuretic ; Bj- to 3j-
                               TURPEN- 
TUR           VAL       137
TURPENTINE, CHIO, and COMMON.
Diuretic, detergent, ftrengthening; Bj. to ^jfs.
-Thecommon is rarely given internally.   Oil
 of.  Diuretic, fudorific ; gt. x. to xv.  Rec-
 tified oil of. gt. viij. p xij.
             .  TUTTY.
Externally in collyriums for the eyes; cooling
 aftringent.   Ointment of.   The lame.
              TYMPANY.
A collection of wind or air in the inteftin:-,
' particularly the colon, by which they "be-
 come violently diftended.
Treatment. If fever and full pulfe, bleed ; keep
 the body open with gentle laxorives, joined
 with aromatics; but refrain from ftrong pro -
 ges, and from carminatives not joined with
 proper aperients.  The belly fliould be fre-
 quently rubbed, and fwathed with  flannel.
 Exercife is good; gentle corroborants,  as ca-
 momile flowers, and fmall dofes of chalybea-
 tes joined with aromatic-, are alfo very.pro-
 per.  It has been relieved by clyfters with
 infufion of tobacco.
VACCIOLA,  or kike pox.   Seepage 150.
       VALERIAN, WILD, root.
Tonic, nervous, antifpafmodic ; Bj. to  5j. or
 more.  Tincture  of. 3j-  to iv.   Ammo.
 tfiATED. 3fs- to ij.
            m 2                  VARIK.. 
138       VAR           VEN

                VAPJX,
       OR enlargement of a vein.
Treatment.  Keep it compreffed  with proper
 bandages, and, if neceffary, bleed and evacu-
 ate.  If thefe fail, treat it as in the opt ration
 for Aneurifin.
        VENEREAL DISEASE.
Symptoms, An itching at the orifice of the ure-
 thra, fometimes extending over the whole
 glans :  a little fulnefs of the lips of the ure-
 thra :  inflammation : a  difcharge from the
 urethra, at firft whitifh, but fometimes chang-
 ing to yellow or green, attended with  pain,
 and  fmarting in making water, or without ei-
 ther : commonly a fulnefs of the penis, par-
 ticularly of the glans : frequently aforenefs
 in part, or throughout the whole of the ure-
 thra, occafioning pain,in erection :  when the
 inflammation or irritability of the urethra is
 treat, the penis'is  incurvated downwards in
 erection, with confiderable pain, and fome-
 times  hemorrhage.   Thefe fymptoms  are
 fometini.es accompanied with fwelling s of the
 tefticles, or fympathetic  tumefactions of the
 neighbouring glands.  This ftage of the dif-
 eik is called the virulent gonorrhoea.
 Sometimes the infe-ftion is received by the viru-
 lent matter remaining in contact with the pre-
                                      puce, 
VEN
*3S
 puce, or glans, in which it produces an ulcer,
 indifpofed to heal, and with a hardened bale;
 this is termed a chancre : if the matter pro-
 duced by  this ulcer be  abforbed, we find bu-
 boes hi the groin ; blotches on the fkin at firft
 attended with inflammation, which goes off,
 and a white fcurf arifes, fucceffively peeling
 off and returning, at length becoming copper-
 coloured,  and finally forming afcab with an
 ulcer underneath; ulcers in the throat; nodes
 on the tendons, ligaments, periofteum, and
 bones ; carie- ; and nocturnal pains.
Treatment. In the gonorrhoea fome rely on mer-
 curials given internally in fmall dofes; others
 employ injections alone ;  fome lay the chief
 ftrefs on diuretics : others combine thefe dif-
 ferent methods. Quickfilver, however, is by
 no means neceffary to the cure of this ftage of
 die difeafe. If the inflammation be confider-
 able, no injections fhould be ufed but thofe of
 fhefedative kind, as thofe compofedof opium
 or lead : if very great,  emollients alone muft
 be ventured on, as milk and water, oil of al-
 monds, or thin mucilage : when flight, aflrin-
 gents may be employed : and in fome cafes
 irritating  injections  are proper, as a weak fo-
 lution of  muriated  quickfilver.   Whatever
 method we purfue, the  conftitution fliould be
 attended to, which, with the fymptoms, will 
H°
VEN
 in general beft direct the treatment. Painful
. erections and chordee are frequently relieved
 by opium, and in the latter leeches applied to
 the part are fometimes ferviceable at the be.
 ginning.
When a gleet will not yield to the turpentine
 balfams, as balf. of capivi, or aftringent in-
 jections, and amending the conftitution, ir-
 ritating injections are fometimes fuccefsful.
If the diforder be a confirmed lues, quickfilver
 is the only remedy.  Calomel,  or calcined
 quickfilver, may be given internally in fmall
 dofes, or a portion of the ftrong quickfilver
 ointment may be rubbed into the thighs ev-
 ery night.  The quantity muft depend on
 the conftitution of the patient.  We fliould
 always  flop as foon as a flight forenefs of the
 mouth is produced,  refuming the mercurial
 in a few days,  and perfifting in its ufe till
 about a fortnight after the fymptoms. have
 difappeared, but carefully avoiding a faliva-
 tion. After the cure, the bark, reftorati ves, and
 a ftrengthening diet, are proper.
In obftinate venereal complaints, not yielding
 to mercurials, decoctions of boxwood, woody
 nightfhade, mezereon, daphnelagetto,epiden-
 drum claviculatum, farfaparilla, or the outer
 green fhells of walnuts, have been faid to have
 proved  fuccefsful.
                                   Chancre^ 
VER           VIN      141
Chancres may be dreffed with fome preparation
 of quickfilver mixed with ointment of wax,
 or conferve of rofes.  Recent ones may fome-
 times be cured by confuming them with cauf-
 tic, and afterwards healing : but  it is never
 fafe to omit the ufe of mercurials internally.
Buboes fhould  be difperfed by  rubbing  the
 ftronger quickfilver ointment into the thigh,
 perineum, and root of the penis; keeping the
 patient at reft ; and the antiphlogiftic regi-
 men. Some recommend the liniment of am-
 monia rubbed in, in the fame manner, every
 hour or two.
For Hernia humoralis, fee Teflicle, inflamed.  See
 alfo  Phymofls.
              VERDIGRIS.
Externally detergent,  good a'gainft fungous
 flefh.  Oxymelof.   The fame.
               VERTIGO.
Symptoms.  Objects, though at reft, feem to turn
 round ; dimnefs of fight; and fear of falling.
Treatment.  Bleed in the jugular, and cup in
' the back part of the head j blifters kept open;
 a vomit and laxatives ; then the nervous me-.
 dicines, and chalybeate waters.
               VINEGAR.
Cooling,  antalkaline, antifeptic ;  3j-  to  3fs«
 Distilled.   The fame, but ftronger.
 *■•■  •                         VIOLET, 
VIO            VOM
      VIOLET, THE FRESH FLOWER.
Aperient.
           VITRIOL, BLUE.
Emetic ;  Bfs.  to Bj.   Tonic ; gr. £  to j.
 Externally efcarotic, flyptic.   Green.   See
 Iron.  White.   See Zinc.

                 ULCERS.
Treatment. Drefs them with proper digeftives ;
 and  if they be fungous, apply an efcarotic ;
 if foul, mix red nitrated quickfilver with the
 digeftive, or ufe the oxymel of verdigris, or
 tincture of myrrh.  Dry lint alone, in fome
 cafes, is good.   If callous, cut or eat away
 the callofity.   If the bone be carious, either
 fcrape it, or make fmall perforations to pro-
 mote exfoliation;  or drefs with  lint, either
 dry, or wetted with tincture 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 af-
 ter the pain which preceded it goes off; flight
 fhiverings, followed by heat;  a quick weak
 pulfe ; hectic fever ;  wafting of the body ;
 the patient cannot lie down but on the  fide
                                  affected. 
VOM               I-4J
 affected.   It is fometimes a confequence of
 pleurify.
Treatment.  Gentle medicines Of the turpentine
 kind, balfamics and diuretics, fleams of hot
 water,  with  balf. of Tolu, benzoin, &c. re-
 ceived  into the lungs ; occafional laxatives,
 bleeding  if inflammation, foft balfamic food,
 and gentle exercife.
              VOMITING.

Treatment.  If it arife from foulnefs of ftomach
 (as bile, acidify, &c.) an emetic will be ufe-
 ful ;  and  afterwards, if neceffary, a rhubarb
 or other gentle purge ; and ftomachics,  eo-
 lurhbo root, magnefia, opiates, &c according
 to circumftances.   If from fpafms, the faline
 draughts, and proper opiates : medicines of
 the nervous clafs, joined with laxatives ; and,
 if neceffary, a blifter to the back.  If from
 inflammation, bleeding, cooling diluents and
 febrifuges, as" the faline draughts with proper
 laxatives  ;• and anodynes at difcretion.   If
 from weaknefs of the ftomach, bark, bitters,
 or other corroborants ; premifing a vomit if
 judged neceffary.  Chalybeate waters are alfo
 proper.  If the ftomach  be  fore, as  it is
 termed, the compound tincture of benjamin,
 fpermaceti, or other balfamics, are good.  In
 vomitings, the beft form of medicine is pills.
                                Vomitings 
VOM            UR1
Vomitings are often fymptomatic, as in fits of
 the gravel, pregnancy, &c. ; the original dif-
 order muft, in thofe cafes, claim the chief at-
 tention.
    VOMITING of  blood.  See Blood.

            URJNE, BLOODY.
The treatment may be fimilar to that prefcri-'
 bed for the Diabetes.
                 URINE,
   PROFUSE. DISCHARGE OF, OR DIABETES.
Symptoms. An exceflive difcharge of urine, pale
 and fweet, having loft  its natural appear*
 ance and qualities, foraetunes with a fragrant
 odour ; the body emaciated.
Treatment.  Tonics., as bark, vitriolic acid, cha-
 lybeates, alum, bitters, and the like. Tincture
 cf cantharides lias, been found efficacious, as
 hath alfo blue vitriol, in dofes of half a grain,
 twice  in a day.  Exercife, aud light, but
 ftrengthening diet, are alfo proper.

         URINE,  SUPPRESSION  OF.
Called  Ifchury, if total;  Strangury, if but  hi
 part;  aud Dyfttry,  if the latter be attended
 with heat: ufually occafioned by inflamma-
  tion or fpafms on the neck of the bladder, in
  confequence of blifters,. or fome other caufe.
                                   Treatment. 
UTE          WAR       145
Treatment. Oily medicines, and plenty of gum
 arabic, with opiates or camphor, if neceffary.
 The' body fhould be  kept  open with gentle
 laxatives, and emollient clyfters; if neceiiary,
 bleed, foment  the belly, rub the liniment of
 ammonia into  the perineum, and  advife the
 warm bath. If caruncles in the urethra be
 the caufe, bougies, introduced with  proper
 caution, are ferviceable.  When arifing  from
 gravel, the infufion of tobacco has been very
 fuccefsful, and frequently, in  bilious  habits,
 |fs. of pure lemon juice.  Sometimes ifchury
 has been removed by placing the feet  and
 legs in water as cold as poflible.   If nothing
 fucceed, puncturing the bladder  is the lalt
 refource.
  UTERUS inflamed, Sec.   See Womb.
            UVA URSI, LEAF.
Tonic, antinephritic ;  Bj. to 3j«
       WALNUT,  UNRIPE  FRUIT.
Anthelmintic ;  of a watery extract about Bij.
 have been given as a dofe.
                WARTS.
Touch them with fome cauftic or efcarotic dai-
 ly, paring off  firft the decayed part ; or cut
 them off with  fciffars, and touch the  roots
 with blue vitriol, or  the like.  If  it can con-
            N                     veniently 
146       WAT         WOM
 veniently be done, tie round the bottom a fine
 hair, or fiik thread, and they will die away.
 The juice of celadine, or fpurge, rubbed over
 them, is eftemed good.
            WATERCRESS.
Stimulant, antifeptic ; Sj. or ij. of the expreffed
 juice.
                 WAX.
Balfamic, antidyfenteric ; externally healing.
 Ointment   of.    Cooling.   Compound
 plaster of.  Drawing.
        WHITES.  See  Fluor albus>.
              WHITLOW.
Treatment fimilar to that directed for Biles and
 Abfceffes.
                 WINE.
Stimulant, antifeptic.  Oil of. Sedative, an-
 tifpafmodic. Ufed for making the Camp. Sp.
 of  Vitriolic  JEther,  or  Hoffman's Anodyne
 Liquor.
         WOLFSBANE, BLUE.
Narcotic, and violently evacuant, in a  large
 dofe ; fedative and fudorific, in a fmall one ;
 from ^ of a grain of the expreffed juice to gr.
 vj. twice a day.                       •
           WOMB  inflamed.
Symptoms. Puliation, pain, heat, and tumour
 in the part: fever, tenefmus, pain on going
 to ftool, and difficulty of making wTater.
                                 Treatment. 
WOM
J 47
Treatment. Bleeding, laxatives, emollient clyf-
 ters, cooling febrifuges, diluting liquors, fo-
 mentations and poultices, &c. as in other in-
 flammations ;  (See Stomach, Bladder,  Kid-
 neys, Sec.) but if the patient be weak, bleed-
 ing and all confiderable evacuations muft be
 avoided.
If a Cancer fucceed, it muft be palliated with
 gentle anodynes, occafional bleeding and lax-
 atives ;  and proper detergent,  or other in-
 jections.
          WOMB  retroverted.
Symptoms.  A total obftruction of the urine and
 feces, the fundus of die womb occupying the
 hollow of the facrum, and the orifice being
 turned towards the fymphyfis pubis. It gen-
 erally  happeas  about the third month of
 pregnancy.
Treatment.  Draw off the water by the cathe-
 ter ; and replace the uterus, if it can eafily be
 done.  If it  cannot, it is beft left to itfelf, as
 it will naturally refume its proper pofition, if
 care be taken to prevent an accumulation of
 water in the bladder by an occafional ufe of
 the catheter if requifite.  The flexible male
 catheter is moft  convenient, and fhould be
 introduced flowly.  After the water is drawn
 off, a clyfter fhould be given, and repeated if
 neceffary.
                                WORMS. 
148
WOR
                WORMS.
Symptoms.  Itching of the nofe and anus ; hun-
 ger, with ravenous appetite ; naufea ;  gnaw-
 ing pain in the ftomach or inteftines ; fetid
 breath ; grinding of the teeth, and moaning
 in fleep ; intermitting weak pulfe, and hectic
 fever; faintings,  and fometimes convulfive
 fits ; palenefs ; wafting of the flefh.   But
 there are feveral  kinds of worms.  Itching
 about the anus, with tenefmus, are figns  of
 afcarides, or fmall thread  worms.  Sudden
 gripings about the navel, denote the common
 round worms.   Gnawing pains in the ftome
 ach, and voracioufnefs,the maw worms. And
 a weight in the belly, like the rolling of a ball,
 the taenia, or tape worm.
Treatment. Tin  filings, with rhubarb, or other
 proper aperient;  fern, fanton. calomel, aethi-
 ops, or other mercurials, every night, with a
 purge now and then ; cowitch. The infufion
 of bears-foot leaves is efteemed good ; cob-
 bage-tree bark has alfo been reccommended.
 Aloes, wormwood, rue, fayine, efpecially in
 clyfters ; and for the afcarides, oil of olives,
 or the fumes of tobacco thrown up the rec-
 tum ;  for the tape worm, the male fern root
 3j. every hour for three times, and prefently
 after a ftrong draftic mercurial purge.  See
 Dr.- Simmons's ingenious pamphlet  on the
                                   fubject, 
WOR         WOU       149
 fubjedt.   Corroborants are proper  after a
 courfe of anthelmintic medicines.
              WORMSEED.
Anthelmintic ; gr. v. to Bj.
       WORMWOOD, COMMON.
Tonic, antifeptic, vermifuge ; Bfs. to g ij - of the
 juice.   In fomentations, difcutient,
        ------:-----SEA, TOPS.
Tonic, antifeptic.  Conserve of. gfs.
                WOUNDS.
Treatment. Remove extraneous fubftances ; if
 the wound be Ample, clofe the lips with flips
 of fticking-plafter, or the  flitch if neceffary ;
 and apply lint, either dry, or wetted with
 compound tincture of benjamin, Sec.  If ne-
 ceffary, bleed and purge; or give cordials, Sec.
 according to circumftances. Drefs with fome
 mild digeftive, or defenfative; and if fungous
 flefh appear, ufe efcarotks : afterwards cica-
 trize.
If there be lofs of flefh, defend the part from
 the air with  proper, mild, vulnery dreffings,
 while nature fupplies the lofs.   In  other
 refpects, (the future excepted) proceed as
 above. If an artery or vein be wounded or
 divided, apply ftyptics, ligatures, Sec. accord-
 ing to circumftances.  If a nerve be divided
 in part, (as violent pain, convulhons, and der
            n 2                      liriurn 
ZED             ZIN
 lirium will indicate) divide itentirely; asmufl
 alfo be the cafe with a tendon or artery in like
 circumftances.   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 an kindly, bark, or  other
 proper cordial and ftrengthening medicines,
 with fuitable diet, fhould be prefcribed.
            ZEDQARY, root.
Tonic, ftimulant; gr. x. to 3fs«
             ZINC,  CALCINED.
Emetic, tonic, antifpafmodic; gr. fs. to viij.  It
 has been increafed to 3fs-  Alfo externally,
 as Tuity  or  Calamine, to  either of which it
 is preferable.  Vitriolated.  Aftringent;
 gr. ij. to  x.   Emetic ;  gr. v. to 3fs.   Ex-
 ternally,  cooling, aftringent.    Water of
 vitriolated z.  with  Camphor.    Ex-
 ternally aftringent.  Diluted as a collyrium.
         VACCIOLA, or KINE POX.
  \Ince:d:tion, as in the finall pox.  The matter for
infection fliould be frem, limpid, and tranfparent. It
is generally found in this ftate, before or immediate-
ly after the eryfipelatous inflammation begins to ex-
tend from the mai^in of nit puftule, which common-
                                          lY 
[VAC]
XJI
Iy takes place on the 8th, 9th, or 10th day after vac-
cination.
   Symptoms.   Upon the 3d or 4th day after inocula-
tion, a fmall inf!-;ned fpot can be perceived, which
gradually increafes to a circular tumour, furrounded
by an inflamed margin.  About the 5th or 6th day
there appears a regularly circumfcribed pock, which
has elevated veficular  edges, with an indentation at
the centre, of a dark colour.  The pock continues to
increafe and fill until the tenth day. At this time the
puftule has a peculiar pearly appearance, like a hard
tranfparent tumour, regularly circumfcribed.  This
regularly circumfcribed  appearance,  with elevated
edges and deprefled centre, continues throughout the
progrefs of  the difeafe.  Between the 8th and nth
day, an eryfipelatous inflammation or rednefs, with
fome tumefaction, hardnefs, and confiderable tenfion
of the fkin, fpreads three or four inches around the
puftule.  After this period, the fluid in the puftule
gradually dries up; the furrounding rednefs or efiio-
refcence becomes fainter; the tumefaction fubfides,
and a thick hard fcab is  formed, of a mohogany col-
pur, darkeft in  the centre, alTuming  as it advances, a
polifhed hue, which, in the courfe of  12 or 14 days,
falls off, leaving a flight efchar upon the fkin.  Upon
the 8th, 9th, or 10th day, the pock having arrived to
maturity, the conftitutional  fymptoms begin to ap-
pear ; being preceded by  fwelling and pain of the puf-
tule, fhooting up towards the axillary glands,  which
pow become fwtlled and painful, efpecially on mov-
ing the arm, whilft the  fympathy  of the fyftem  is
generally evinced by fome of the ufual fymptoms of
a  flight inflammatory fever.  The degree of this con-
ftitutional indifpofition is various, and its duration
from fix hours to three days.
                                           Matter 
is*
[VAC]
  Matter that has become purulent before it was ta>
ken from the puftule, or that has fufFered a decom-
pofition by long expofure to air, great heat, or cold,
will communicate a fpurious  difeafe, which will not
fecure the fubject of it againft the fmall pox. In fome
cafes of this kind the  conftitutional affection  is like
that  produced  by the genuine difeafe; but the puf-
tule and local appearance are very different. In thefe
cafes, a complete puftule is fometimes formed on the
ad or 3d  day after vaccination, and this generally
takes  place much earlier than in the genuine difeafe.
It has not that  regularly circumfcribed and  pearly
appearance ; that indentation at the centre, with ele-
vated edges ; that hardnefs, tenfion of the fkin, are-
ola, tumefaction, and eryfipelatous efflorefcence fur-
rounding it for a confiderable extent, which charac^
terize the genuine difeafe.  The  puftule  is more ir-
regular, angular, elevated at the centre ; the fcab is
whiter, rougher, and does not aflume that polifhed
hue, which characterizes the  true vaccine fcab.
  Having mentioned fome of the principal pathog-
nomonic figns of the  genuine and fpurious difeafes,
in their moft common forms ; fome varieties in both,
together with many important facts  relative  to the
fubject, muft neceflarily be left unnoticed in fo fliort
a treatife; for a knowledge of which, the reader is re-
ferred to the writings of Doctors Jenner, Woodville,
Perfons, Coxe,  &c. on the fubject.
  Treatment. This is very fimple : avoid violent ex-
ercife, and intemperance. If the inflammation and
fever be confiderable, treat it like a common inflam-
matory  fever.   E. B. Troy.]
A  TABLE, 
A TABLE, exhibiting the Proportions
  of Opium, Mercurials, ^Cathartics,
  contained in the feveral Compofitions into which
  they enter.
Opiate confec-
 tion, gr. 36
Pill of Opium,
 gr- 5
Compound pow
 der of Chalk
 with Opium,
 gT- 431
Compound pow
 der of Ipecacu
 anha, gr. 10
Opiate powder,
 gr. 10
Tincture of Opi-
 um, m.* 3>
Camphorated
 tincture of Opi
 um, m. Bj
Ointm't of white 1
 calx of Quick- >
 filver, 13 parts J
contains of
[Opi
gr-
I.
I.
gr. 1.
}-     -
gr. I-
-\
gr-
gr-
1.
{W
White calx of
 Quickfilver,
   part.
      Ointment
  * Where m occurs, in this Table, it ftands for mea*
sure, in contradiftin£tion to "weight. 
*54
TABLE.
 1
;}-
ir, I  ----■
Ointment of ni
 trated Quickfil- J- contains
 ver, 5 parts
Stronger oint-
 ment of Quick
 filver, 2 parts
Weaker  ointm
 of Quickfilver
 6 parts
Plafter of Am- 1
 moniacumwkh  !
 Quickfilver, 5
 parts
Plafter of Li-
 tharge with
 Quickfilver, 5
 parts
Quickfilver with
 Chalk, 8 parts
Quickfilver with
 Sulphur, 2 parts
Pill of Quickfil-
 ver, gr. 5
Powder of Scam-
 mony with Cal-
 omel, gr. 4
Compound pow
 der of Sc ammo
 ny, gr. 9
r
   Nitrated Quick*
ofi\  filver, 1
    part.
("Quickfilver, 1
I part.

  ——. 1 part,
;}-
1 part.
  —— 1 part.


  — ■•■ 3 parts,

  ---- 1 part.

  ----gr. 2.
f Calomel, gr. 1.
< Scammony,
L gr- 2.
f Scammony, gr. 4
< Hard extract of
L Jalap, gr. 4.
      Compound 
TABLE.
*55
Compound pow-'
  der of Scammo-
  ny with Aloes,
  gr- 17
Compound pow-
  der  of  Senna,
  gr. 19

Electuary of    1
  Scammony,3fs. J
Aloetic powder,!
  gr- \5         5
Aloetic powder "1
  with Guaiacum S-
  gr. 2         J
Aloetic powder 1
with Iron, gr. 11 y
Pill of Aloes, 9j.
Pill of aloes with
  Myrrh, 3fs.
Wine  of Aloes,
mm- Bj-
Tincture of Al-
 oes, m. §j.
Compound tinct. 1
of Aloes, m. §j. y
Tincture
 ap
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    of Jal-
m. 3ij.
       f Scammony, gr.3
  . .'  , i Hard extract  of
contains ?/ s  t  i       ^
       j  Jalap, gr. 0.
       t Aloes, gr. 6.
       { Scammony,gr.2
         Senna, gr. 8.
         Cryftals of Tar-
          tar, gr. 8.
       C Scammony, gr.
       I  5-
        Aloes, gr. 12.
----gr. I.


----gr« 3-
----gr. 12.
----gr. 14.

----3fi.

----gr. 15.

----gr. 45.

Jalap, 3fs.
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Wine 
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Wine of Rhu-
 barb, m. §j.
Tincture of Rhu-*
 barb, m. fy    j
Compound tine-"
 ture of Rhu-  - ——
 barb, m. Bj.    .1
Tincture of Sen-")  ____
 na, m.  §j.      j"
Simple infufion 1  _____
of Senna, m. §ij. j
Tartarifed infu-
 fion of Senna,
 m. §ij.
1-
Electuary of Sen- \
 na, Sfs.       $
Electuary of Caf-")___
 fia, 3ij-       i
0/| Rhubarb, 3fs.

.     .------3fs.
gr- 34-
  Senna, gr. 45.

   —■ $ifs.
f Senna, 3ifs.
-j Cryftals of Tar-
(.  tar, gr. 15.
  Senna, gr. 25.
  Pulp of Caffia,
   9j. Pulp of
  Tamarinds,  Bj.
  Pulp of Erench
   Prunes, B'y
 rPulpofCafEa,3j.
J Manna, 3j. Pulp
 |  of Tamarinds,
 I 9fs.
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