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      PLAIN  DIRECTIONS


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PREFACE.
   The following pages are designed to facilitate the
 use of the various medicines and articles contained
 in the Medicine Chest, or Portable Dispensary.
   The medicines are of the best quality, and are se-
 lected for their efficacy, with all  possible regard to
 the readily compounding and administering of them;
 great care has been also taken, in treating of such as
 are most active, to point out the inconveniences and
 dangers which  might  follow their  incautious  em-
 ployment.
   The prescribed dose of each medicine  (except
 where the contrary is expressed) is calculated  for an
 adult, or grown  up person; but for children it must
 be diminished in due proportion to the age    (See
 the table of doses.)
   Peculiarities of constitution and  habit will often
 render necessary some  deviation from the plan  pro-
 posed ; but these, it is evident, could not have been
 detailed.
   It was the object of this little work to blend con-
 ciseness with all possible utility, but it was soon
 perceived embarrassments might arise to those who
are unacquainted with  medicine,  from  imperfect
description or mutilated  advice; and therefore it
has sometimes been  necessary  to  treat, more  dif-
fusely, than it was at first intended, of the qualities
of each medicine, and of the diseases, to the cure of
which it is applicable. 
X                  PREFACE.
  It is impossible, however, (in a publication neces-
sarily so limited as this) to give directions sufficient-
ly ample  and particular, for the employment of
every medicine, still  less for the management of
every disease.   Much, undoubtedly, must be left to
the sense and  discretion of the  reader;  but every
caut'on has been used not to urge or sanction the
use of medicines, beyond what necessity or safety
dictated, whenever  these guides could be  kept in
view.  From the  intricacy of the art of medicine,
and the difficulties attendant on its practice  (even to
those  who have made  it the study of their lives) it is
earnestly  recommended to  every one  not  to trifle
with  health, and  consequently with  happiness, by
assuming  a medical capacity,  but always  to have
recourse to professional assistance, whenever it can
be obtained.
  This  Tract is  therefore intended for  the use of
travellers, and others so situated as to be unable to
procure the aid and advice  of a regular   medical
practitioner ; and it is  tiusted, that out of the great
number so circumstanced, many will find the direc-
tions  it contains  of importance  to them:   since it
must frequently happen, that diseases which threaten
the most fatal consequences, may be averted or sub-
dued  by the exercise of good  sense  and prudence,
and by timely recourse to the Medicine Chest. 
         CONTENTS

OF  THE  MEDICINE  CHEST.
                                        Page.
Peruvian Bark,......13
Epsom Salt,       ......16
Senna,.......17
Manna,........17
Calcined Magnesia,.....18
Rhubarb,.......18
Jalap........20
Cream of Tartar.......20
Calomel,       ......21
Ipecacuanha,      ......   24
Emetic Tartar.......26
Antimonial Powder,.....26
Antimonial Wine,    .....     28
Salt of Tartar,......28
Laudanum,     .         ....     29
Paregoric,.......32
Huxhani's Tincture of Bark,    ...    33
Compound Spirits of Lavender,   .     .    .33
Syrup of Squills,.....34
Spirits of Camphor,.....34
Volatile Tincture of Valerian,   ...    34
Tincture of Rhubarb,.....35
Castor Oil.......37
Essence  of Peppermint,.....37
^Ether........38
Elixir of Vitriol,......39
Tincture of Myrrh......39
 Spirit of Nitre.....*.    .40
 Spirit of Hartshorn,.....40 
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CONTENTS.
Opodeldoc,.......41
Traumatic Balsam,.....41
Extract of Lead.......42
Blistering  Plaster,.....43
Basilicon,.......44
Strengthening Plaster,                         45
White Cerate.......45
Turner's Cerate,.....45
Chamomile Flowers,.....45
Arrow Root,......4b
Ginger,       .......*
Bilious Pills,......47
Adhesive Plaster,......47
Court Plaster.......4°
Lint.........%
Scnles and Weights......»*

                        '.'.'.'.'   68
Spatula,      .......jj^j
Bolus Knife,......??
Tile........."
Lancet,    ,......j?;j
Syringe for glysters,.....^
Glass Measure,
Mortar and Pestle, 
                      A

             COMPANION

                   TO  THE

MEDICINE    CHEST.
           PERUVIAN  BARK.
  This is a medicine of very considerable efficacy
in various diseases,  but especially in intermittent,
and low or nervous fevers, which (when properly ex-
hibited) it seldom fails to cure.  It is generally, how-
ever, under-dosed, or not administered with sufficient
frequency.
  Previously to its use, the stomach and intestines
ought to be cleared by the  use of  some mild emetic
and purgative; after the operation  of which, and in
the absence or remission of fever, it may be given  in
doses  of half a drachm, one, two, or even three
drachms, (if the stomach will bear so large a quan-
tity) every three or four hours, leaving it off as soon
as the fever recurs, and substituting for it the salim
draught, which is to be treated of hereafter.
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   Bark is given in very various forms, and nixed
with substances as various; it may be united with
conserve of ruses, or honey, as a bolus or electuary; it
is sometimes taken in milk or in water.   A good
mode of administering the bark is uniting the in-
tended dose with a tea spoonful of Huxluim's Tinct-
ure, and adding an ounce or two of peppermint wa-
ter; or it may be given in a small wine glass full of
port wine—in either way, it generally sits easy upon
the stomach.
   In some persons, bark produces  purging whilst
in others (though much more rarely) it causes a
costive  state  of the  bowels:  the former inconve-
nience is to be remedied, by adding four or five drops
of laudanum to each dose, and the latter by combin-
ing with it a few grains  of rhubarb,  or some other
mild aperient.
   If the stomach be too delicate to bear the bark in
sultstance, it may be taken in the form of a. decoction,
which is to be prepared as follows:
   Take of bark in gross powder, one ounce ; pure
    water, a pint:
Boil them together for fifteen minutes,  in a close
vessel,  then strain the decoction for  use.   Dose—
three  or four table spoonsful every  two  or three
hours,  in the  manner, and  with the precautions
above recommended. 
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  In some rare instances, even the decoction offends
the stomach; a drachm of cinnamon bruised, may
then bo  added to the bark before it is boiled, and if
it be  still rejected, tie cold infusion must be had
recourse to.  It is thus prepared:
  Take of bark in powder, one ounce ; pure water,
    a pint;
Let them stand together twenty-four hours; then
pour  off clear, or strain  the infusion for use.   Of
this preparation the dose  must be as large, and the
exhibition as frequent as the stomach will allow.
  When  bahk is employed as a tonic or bracing
remedy, (as after the termination of fever)  it may be
advantageously joined with other bitters;  with the
elixir  vitriol, and  sometimes  with preparations of
steel.  In these cases,  from a scruple to  a drachm
will be a sufficient dose, and twice or thrice a day,
often enough for its administration.
  Bark is also given for the cure of thosp headaches
and pains which recur periodically, with  excellent
effect—they are of the nature of an intermittent fe-
ver, and  are to be removed by the same mode.  It
is also a very valuable medicine in all ill-conditioned
and painful ulcers, and where mortification is to be
apprehended, or  has already taken place. In all
these cases  it very generally requires to  be joined 
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with opium, and in the latter to be given in very
large quantities.
  It may be laid  down as  an axiom in medicine,
that there  is no valuable nor efficacious remedy,
which is not capable also of producing mischief,
and generally in  direct proportion to the efficacy it
possesses.   Bark is improper in inflammatory dis-
eases, and in affections of  the chest, where the respi-
ration is impeded;  it is also prejudicial where the
person is  very plethoric, i. c. full of blood; and in
many other cases frequently requires great nicety in
its employment.
             EPSOM  SALT.
  This is a good saline purgative, though nauseous,
seldom offending the stomach;  it is given in the
dose of half an ounce, or an ounce.   It is best dis-
solved in peppermint water, and succeeds most when
the quantity of this is lather large, i. e. three or four
ounces:  administered in  this way,  it becomes an
useful purgative, when the body has been heated by
excess in inflammatory diseases, and where the per-
son is of a full robust habit.
   Salts are frequently mixed with manna, by which
they are rendered somewhat less unpleasant: from
half an ounce  to  an ouuee of  salts, and an equal 
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quantity of manna, dissolved in hot water, form an
excellent purgative for a grown-up person, but by
children  their  extreme nauseousness can seldom be
overcome.
                   SENNA.
   The leaves of Sknna are often joined with salts
and manna as a purgative,  adding  some aromatic
substance to prevent the griping which this drag is
otherwise apt to cause.
   The following is an useful formula :
   Take of the leaves of  Alexandrian  Seima, one
    drachm and a half; Flake Manna three drachms;
    Bruised Ginger, fifteen grains ;
Infuse in boiling water three or four  ounces for two
hours, then strain carefully, and in the strained liquid
dissolve hulf an ounce of salts for a draught.
                   MANNA.
   Maiwa is  so  mild  an aperient, that it is seldom
used alone, except for children, to whom from two
drachms to six may be given with advantage, wh?re
it is simply requisite to  empty the  intestines.   Not
less than an  ounce and  a half, or two ounces,  will
be sufficient for an adult; and as in this quantity it
commonly produces nausea,  its use is confined to 
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children, very delicate persons,  and pregnant  wo-
men ;  unless  joined  with  senna or with salts, an
above described.
       CALCINED   MAGNESIA.
  This is another very gentle and useful aperient,
especially for children, with whose food it may be
conveniently mixed, where acidity prevails  in the
stomach  and intestines: from six to ten grains may
be given to an infant for a dose, occasionally joining
it with rhubarb, when not of itself sufficiently pow-
erful.
  Its principal use  to adults, is in case of heartburn
 produced by acidity in the stomach, and known by
 sour and nauseous eructations, flatulency, a sense
 of heat and pain in and above that viscus, and often
 an accompanying headache.  In the  dose of half a
 drachm  or two  scruples, mixed with peppermint wa-
 ter, it seldom  fails to afford instantaneous relief, es-
 pecially if ten or fifteen drops of hartshorn be added
 to each  dose.   Here also rhubarb may be joined
 with magnesia, to render it  more  active, if that be
  found necessary.
                RHUBARB.
  Rhubarb is an excellent purgative, both for chil-
dren and adults, especially  when joined with mag- 
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nesia, or, where a more powerful effect is desired,
with calomel, as hereafter to be mentioned.
   In disorders of the boweL=, rhubarb  is an admi-
rable medicine, as it not  only acts as a purgative,
but gives lone to the intestines.  The  dose is  from
ten to thirty grains,  mixed with peppermint water,
and where thore is nothing inflammatory in the case,
from two to six drachms of tincture of rhubarb may
be added.
   When there is diarrhoea (looseness) a dose of
riiubakb should precede  the  administration of as-
tringent medicines,  in  order  to  clear  the  bowels
thoroughly from the offending matter, which causes
and keeps up their morbid  irritation.
   As the purgative effect of rhubahb is not extreme
nor permanent, it may with great propriety be given
dining the presence of a fever to procure an evacua-
tion or two occasionally, where  more would be in-
jurious  by weakening the  patient;  in such  cases
from eight to twelve  grains will generally be found
sufficient.
   On account of the  astringent effect which, it has
just been observed, rhubarb  possesses, it must be
evident,  that it is a medicine not well adapted to the
removal of costiveness, where that is habitual, since
it has a constant tendency to increase the complaint:
such persons should therefore take castor oil or sen-
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na and manna in preference;  and endeavor to ob-
viate the inconvenience by a change of diet, and by
using more exeicise.
                   JALAP.
  When an active purge is requisite, and the patient
is of a robust habit, jalap will be found a vi-ry use-
ful medicine, as it readih and  completely  empties
the intestines;  it is necessary, however, to  add to it
some aromatic or spirit, to prevent the griping effect
it otherwise produces.  It may be taken by itself in
the  dose of fifteen,  twenty, or twenty-five gnins,
according to the  strength of the patient, mixed with
an equal weight of cream of tartar, or  in the Jose of
ten or twelve grains, with six or eight grain* of cal-
omel.   The most conven'u.nt vehicle is currant jelly,
lioney, or lenitive electuary, with any of which it may
 be made into a bolus.  Where this form proves dis-
 agreeable, the dose of jalap may be mixed with two
 drachms of tincture of  rhubarb, and an ounce or two
 of peppermint water.
        CREAM  OF  TARTAR.
  This article  is very well known as a cooling and
antiseptic medicine, and is generally employed with
these views in fever, especially where  the patient 
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complains much of thirst, and burning heat over the
Bkin   In such cases  the  drink called imperial, is a
very grateful beverage, and may be  taken in almost
any quantity with advantage.   It is thus prepared:
  Take of cream of tartar, three drachms ; the rind
    of one lemon ;
Pour on these a quart of boiling water;  and when
cold, add a sufficient quantity of fine sugar to render
the liquid palatable.  Where  circumstances  do not
forbid i's use, a small quantity of white wine may be
also joined with it, to improve the flavor.
  Tne  effect of cream of tartar in conjunction
with jalap,  has been already spoken  of.   It may
further be observed, that  this  drug  has been found
extremely serviceable in  dropsical  cases, having a
very diuretic quality.  In such instances it is neces-
sary that it  he  taken freely, from six drachms to an
ounce and a half in  twenty-four houis; it may be
given in union  with simple syrup.
                 CALOMEL.
  Amongst the important medicines with  which
chemistry has enriched the Materia Medica. Calo-
mel holds a distinguished place.  It is given both to
children and adults in various diseases, and is capa-
ble  of producing very different effects, according to
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 the dose, the frequency of its employment, and the
 articles with which it is combined.   It may be used
 as an active  and valuable purgative, where suspi-
 cions are entertained of the  presence of worms in
 the intestines;  and at the commencement of fevers,
 attended with a full, quick pulse, and other signs of
 a plethoric state of the body.
   Six or eight grains of calomel, and ten or twelve
 of rhubarb,  made into pills, with honey or currant
jelly, and given at bed-time, will act smartly on the
 intestines, remove obstructions, and cleanse the bow-
 els from undigested aliment or faeces, which may be
 present. These effects will be facilitated,  and ren-
 dered more certain, by  taking on  the  succeeding
 morning, some  mild, opening draught.
  When calomel is given on the  first attack, or
 during the progress of fever, it  is  better to join it
 with rhubarb, as above described,  and  also to add
 three or four grains of James' powder, by which the
 skin is more likely to become relaxed, and perspira-
 tion  produced, whence advantages are frequently
 obtained.
  In doses of three or four grains, calomel is an
 excellent purgative for children, cleansing the intes-
 tines thoroughly from all offensive matter, and very
 frequently bringing away worms.  Indeed this pre- 
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 paration ia the basis of almost all the vermifuge
 medicines that have ever been usefully administered.
    As an alterative medicine, in cutaneous diseases,
 or to remove glandular obstructions, calomel may
 be employed in the dose of half a grain or a grain
 every night and morning, mixed as before described
 (for  all liquids are improper, as from its gravity, it
 instantly subsides in them.)  If the  mouth should
 become sore, the quantity  must be lessened, or the
 calomel omitted until  the soreness  disappears—
 when smaller doses must be  had  recourse  to : and
 if griping be produced, six or eight drops of lauda-
 num  must be taken with each dose.
   Observe that all acids and acescent substances are
 to be avoided, whenever this  or any other prepara-
 tion of mercury is employed.
   Employed  in large doses, it  becomes a very effi-
 cacious  remedy in diseases of the liver, and in  all
 other cases where it is desirable to produce the mer-
 curial action  in the  system.  It may be given  in
 doses  of two, three,  or  even four grains, twice  or
 thrice a day, according to the strength of the patient,
and the nature and violence of the disease.
  When it affects the system properly, it causes an
inciease of perspiration, or  of urine, and sometimes
of both; but the best test of its acting specifically is,
its producing  soreness of  the  mouth;  this effect, 
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therefore, ought not to occasion a discontinuance of
the medicine,  unless the soreness be extreme ;  in
which case the dose must be diminished, or calomel
entirely desisted from, until the inconvenience shall
have subsided.
  It may be moderated, however,  by keeping the
patient  warm, making him  drink freely and often,
of warm diluting liquids; administering now and
then an opening medicine, and by occasionally giv-
ing a few drops of laudanumto lessen the irritability
which prevails.   The griping produced by calomel
is to be prevented or lessened by slight opiates, and
by avoiding acid or acescent substances; for if per-
mitted to cause purging, its specific effects may be
wholly  lost.
            IPECACUANHA.
  Ipfcacuanha is  a valuable medicine  for several
purposes.  In doses  of fifteen, twenty, or thirty
grains, mixed with an ounce  of water, it proves
emetic,  and is frequently given with this view, to
empty the stomach of undigested food, bile, &c. the
patient drinking (during its operation) an infusion
of chamomile, water-gruel,  or warm water, in mod-
erate quantity.  If the stomach be with difficulty ex-
cited to vomit, it will  be necessary to join with the 
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ipfcacoanha, half a grain or a grain of emetic tartar,
which is a much more active medicine.
  Ipecacuanha, in  doses of half a grain or a grain,
with six or eight drops of laudanum, is very similar
to a medicine  called Dover's powder,  which is  an
excellent sudorific, and therefore employed with ad-
vantage where perspiration has beer checked, during
the presence  of fever;  and in rheumatic or gouty
cases.   Ipecacuanha, thus combined, may be made
into a bolus with honey  or currant jelly, or into a
draught with peppermint  water, and taken every  six
or eight hours, according to the nature and urgency
of the disease.
   In obstinate rliarrhmas and fluxes, ipecacuanha
may be taken with the  greatest advantage, in  the
dose of one  or two grains, every four or six hours,
 or in such quantity as  to produce continued nausea
 without vomiting.  In these cases each dose may be
 mixed with an ounce or two of thin boiled arrow root,
 and now and then  (especially if there be pain) with
 a few drops of laudanum.
   Such complaints  are  very much relieved by  the
 injection of glysters, which are soothing,  and mo-
 derately astringent: half a pint of thin boiled starch,
 of the teinperatuie of new  milk, with thirty or forty
 drops  of laudanum, may  be thrown up  twice or
 thrice a day, with great  advantage, taking care that 
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 the stomach and intestines have been  completely
 emptied at the beginning of the disease.

           EMETIC   TARTAR.
  This preparation of antimony is exceedingly use-
ful to produce vomiting, and to cause  a  determina-
tion to the skin when hot and dry; especially at the
commencement of fevers.   Four grains  of emetic
tartar, dissolved in six ounces of  water, form the
emetic  mixture,  of which  two table spoonsful (an
ounce) may be taken  for  the  first dose, and one
spoonful every quarter of an hour afterwards, until
full vomiting is produced.
  When used as a sudorific, one grain is to be dis-
solved in four ounces of peppermint water, or in the
saline mixture, and a'large spoonful of the  solution,
with the addition of five or six  drops of  laudanum,
taken every three or four hours: if vomiting be pro-
duced, the dose should be diminished, as  that effect
is not desirable when only a moist state of the skin
is to be procured.
  For the purpose of bringing on perspiration, how-
ever, James' Powder, or Ipecacuanha, is to  be pre-
ferred.

       ANTIMONIAL   POWDER.
  This is  better known by the name of  James's 
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Powder; it is an excellent  remedy  in  fevers, pro-
curing with ease and safety, the most salutary eva-
cuations, and not unfrequently inducing  a speedy
and favorable termination of the complaint.
  It may be administered in conjunction with calo-
mel, or with opium, or with both, as above described
(vide calomel, p. 21;) or it may be given separate-
ly, in doses of three, four or five grains, every five
or six hours; the most  convenient vehicle will be
honey or current jelly; and the  saline draught, with
four  or five drops of laudanum, may  at the same
time  be taken with  advantage.
   The  action of james's powder, as well  as of all
other sudorific  medicines,  is promoted by the pa-
 tient's drinking frequently  and copiously some di-
 luted liquid, as barley  water, toast and  water, le-
 monade, &c.
   In hot climates, especially, it is exceedingly prop-
 er to dilute freely, that the rapid waste of fluids may
 be readily supplied.
   Efficacious however,  as  antimonial  preparations
 are  in  bilious  and inflammatory cases,  they  soon
 cease to be proper, in those fevers which  are of the
 low  nervous kind;  the patient  being, in such dis-
 eases,  ill able to bear  the  debilitating  effect which
 they so constantly produce.
   In those disorders therefore, attended with a hot 
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and dry skin, and other symptoms  which render
perspiration desirable, ipecacuanha administered as
above  described  (vide ipecacuanha p.  21, 25.)
will be found a preferable remedy.
         ANTIMONIAL  WINE.
  Wine of antimony may be employed in all cases
where tartar emetic or antimonial powder, is proper;
and on account of its ready divisibility it is very fre-
quently substituted for the former medicine, in  in-
fantile complaints especially,  as an emetic.
  The dose for a child, may be from twenty or thirty
drops, repeated every eighth or tenth minute, until
it operates twice or thrice.
  Four, five, or six drops of antimonial wine with a
single drop of laudanum, may be beneficially given
twice or thrice a day  to an infant during the process
of teething, to  remove the febrile irritation which is
so apt  to  prevail at that peiiod; and to children
with unsightly eruptions on the  skin, five  or  six
drops, in any  simple liquid,  may be  administered
thrice a day with great advantage.
        SALT  OF TARTAR.
This is an alkaline  Bait, which effervesces when 
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mixed with acids.   With the vegetable acids it is fre-
quently employed in febrile complaints, to cause an
increase of perspiration and of urine, and to cool
the body.
   Half an  ounce of lemon juice, a scruple of salt of
tartar, an oun°.e of water, and a little syrup or sugar,
form the saline draught, which has already been re-
ferred to, as an useful medicine.
   Taken in the act of effervescing, the saline drauglU
abates sickness and vomiting, especially if six or
eight drops  of  laudanum,  and some grateful aro-
matic be added to it.
   When the draught's properly made, both the acid
 and  alkali are perfectly  saturated  or neutralized.
 and the taste of  either is no longer perceptible; if,
 therefore,  the medicine tastes salt, the acid is not
 good, or  deficient in  quantity, and more  must be
 added, till the alkali is  perfectly neutralized, and its
 taste and qualities are destroyed.
   Salt of  tartar  forms an useful addition to
 rhubarb, enabling it more completely  to cleanse and
 empty the intestines.
               LAUDANUM.
  This medicine is one of the most valuable with
which  afflicted mankind ever  became  acquainted, 
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 as it not onlv proves a safe, easy, and speedy cure,
 for some painful disorders  but a  soothing palliative
 for others, distressing  in their  nature,  and fatal in
 their consequences.
   Some of the beneficial effects of laudanum have
 already been enumerated;   there are others  which
 yet remain to be treated of.   As a narcotic, or seda-
 tive, opium confessedly stands unrivalled.  In doses
 of twenty, twenty-five or  thirty drops,  i.auuanum
 removes or abates pain, wherever situated, lessens
 irritation,  and  seldom fails to  occasion a calmness
 and quietude in the system ; whence  its use in gout,
 sciatica, and rheumatism;  in calculous complaints ;
 spasmodic  disorders;  during the formation of ab-
 scesses ; and after surgical operations.
   In case of excrutiating pain, where inflammation
 of some vital or impoitant organ  is not to be appre-
 hended, larger dos;-«i may be  ventured on ;  forty or
fifty drops may then be taken  for a single dose ; but
 it is very generally more prudent  to take a  smaller
quantity, and repeat it every four  or six hours.
 From twenty to thirty drops may  then be adminis-
 tered at a time, and repeated as may be found ne-
cessary: always having reference to  the sex, age,
constitution and habits  of the patient, as well as to
the particular circumstances of the case.
   Persons who have been accustomed to take opium, 
31
will bear doses which would  prove highly injurious,
or fatal, to others who are altogether strangers to its
use ; yet the prejudices, which are so generally en-
tertained against this medicine, are,  it must be ob-
served, either wholly without foundation, or very
disproportionate to the  inconveniences which it oc-
casions.
  When laudanum is exhibited in fevers, it must
be  given  in small doses, and  it is best joined with
such things as cause it to act on the skin : such  are
ipecacuanha,  antimony.  Sec.  The effects  of opium,
in union with these articles have already been spoken
of.  (Vide p. 25 and 2H.)
  Opium is a very valuable medicine in pains of the
stomach or bowels, but it cannot with safety be given
unless in an open state of the intestines;  for where
costiveness prevails, it is much increased by opium,
and inflammation with all its dreadful  consequences,
will be the result of its use,  except  in very skilful
hands.
   In cholicky and spasmodic pains, where the bowels
are open, laudanum may  be administered with
safety, especially in conjunction with  ipecacuanha,
and if necessary, with castor  oil.  Where diairhoza
prevails, in three or four hours after  a dose of rhu-
barb has been  administered,  six or ei",ht drops of
laudanum, mixed  with  a little thin  arrow  rout, or 
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 other mucilaginous liquid, may be given every four,
 three, or two hours, according to die necessity of the
 case, the patient living at the same time on light and
 nutritious food of easy digestion, such as thin gruel;
 arrow-root jelly; rice in all forms; beef tea; mutton
 and chicken broths, &c.
  In affections of the  chest, where respiration is free,
 and in  tickling  coughs, small doses of laudanum
 may be  usefully employed ;  but they must be exhi-
 bited with cautiousness, lest there be  a tendency to
 inflammation, which might be increased.
  Forty or fifty drops of laudanum, with half a pint
 of thin starch, is a very useful glyster, in cases of
 great irritation of the bowels, attended with diarrlwea,
 especially if given about bed-time, as  a quiet night
 is afterwards  very generally obtained.
  Local pains are frequently relieved by being rub-
bed with an anodyne linament, containing laudanum:
but this will be hereafter noticed.


               PAREGORIC.
  Another medicine containing opium, and which is
also found serviceable in irritative or tickling coughs,
 is paregoric ; it may be taken in the dose of one or
 two tea spoonsful, twice or  thrice a day, in  a little
 simple water,  or any mucilaginous drink;  but only 
33
when the respiration is unimpeded, and the chest
free from inflammation, as both the spirit and opium
which it contains, would otherwise prove injurious.


HUXHAM'S  TINCTURE  OF   BARK.
  One of the best stomachic medicines with which
we are acquainted, is Huxham's,  or the compound
tincture  of bark,  which unites the powers of
several tonic and astringent bitters; it may be given
as an useful auxiliary to the bark in powder,  or to
the decoction, or  in  the dose of two or three tea-
spoonsful,  mixed with a little water  only.  When
the energy  of the stomach has been impaired by any
debilitating cause, this tincture, in the above men-
tioned dose, is often extremely serviceable, especially
if it have added to  it fifteen or twenty drops of the
elixir of vitriol.  In all cases, however,  where the
taking of spirits would bo improper, this medicine
should be abstained from.
  COMPOUND  SPIRITS  OF LAVENDER.
  This tincture is  in common use, and is well
known as a gratefiil cordial and stimulant.  It is use-
ful  in  relieving  languor, faintness,  nausea of the
stomach, &c.;  for which purposes it is not unfre-
quently mixed with a few drops of spirits ofharts-
                 3 
34
horn.  The dose of spirits of i.avbhp™ ia  from
twenty to fifty drops, taken on sugar, or in water
ox tea.
        SYRUP  OF   SQUILLS.
  This is a useful detergent and expectorant, and of
great  service in  asthma,  coughs, hives,  and other
disorders where thick phlegm abounds.  The doso
is one or two tea spoonsful for a child below seven
years  of age.  If the dose be repeated every ten
minutes, it makes a safe and convenient emetic for
children.
      SPIRITS  OF  CAMPHOR.
  This is  an excellent 'embrocation for rheumatic
pains, paralytic numbness, inflammations, headache,
and for discussing tumors.  It is  only used  exter-
nally, bathed on the affected part with the hand or a
piece of flannel.
  VOLATILE TINCTURE OF VALERIAN.
  As an  antispasmodic, valerian  ranks  high  in
modern  practice.   The volatile  tincture,  in
dosos of from one to three tea spoonsful furnishes a
valuable remedy against hysteria, epilepsy, and al- 
35
most all nervous disorders.  It should be mixed with
* few spoonsful of water or tea.
     TINCTURE  OF   RHUBARB.
  Few  medicines are more  generally known  and
resorted  to  than tincture of rhubarb,  nor  are
there many better calculated  to afford relief in the
diseases to which they are severally applicable.  Yet
it is cei tain that the indiscriminate  employment of
this  valuable remedy,  by all  ranks  of people  has
occasioned almost unbounded mischief.   Pains of
the stomach and intestines, the  forerunners of in-
flammation, though momentarily relieved, have been
aggravated by  this and other spirituous liquids, in-
judiciously had recourse  to, and a repetition of the
dose has not unfrequently rendered fatal the disease,
which skill and prudence  would have wholly pre-
vented, or arrested in its direful progress.
  Tincture  of rhubarb is an excellent remedy in
cases of indigestion, laxity of the stomach and intes-
tines ; spasmodic pains in  those parts, and in diar-
rliceas; but it cannot be taken with safety when the
patient is young and plethoric, complains of violent
pains in the stomach  and bowels,  and is costive
withal.   The spirit contained in this medicine is
disproportionably large to  the purgative, and there-
fore  cannot be  trusted to for the procuring of those 
3ti
 evacuations by stool, which are essentially necessary
 to tin; safety of the patient, whenever pain uad irri-
 taticn take place in any part of the alimcntaiy c:uial;
 and should it fail to  procure motions when there
 exists a tendency to  inflammation,  it will  certainly
 accelerate  the mischief, and give it tenfold  force.
   These observations are offered with confidence,
 from a deep conviction of their  importance; it can
 scarcely be necessary  to add, that the custom so very
 prevalent,  of administering  burnt brandy and other
 ardent spirits (by whatever name they are called)  in
 such complaints, is highly injurious,  and often fatal.
  Tincture of  rhubarb, therefore, is only safe
 when the bowels are already open, or where there is
 certainly no tendency to inflammation ;  it may then
 be  administered in conjunction with ten or  fifteen
 grains ofpowder of rhubarb, or in a little peppermint
 water, with the addition of twelve or fifteen drops  of
 laudanum.
  The Jose may vary  from two to six drachms, ac-
cording  to circumstances, and be repeated,  if neces-
sary, in  four or five hours.
  Two or three tea spoonsful of this tincture, taken
daily, an hour before dinner,  in  a little warm  water,
or what is better, soda water, have considerable effect
in  removing obstructions;  giving  energy to the
 stomach and intestines, and piomotir.g digestion. 
37
               CASTOR   OIL.
   This is a mild and valuable aperient, as its efficacy
 does not depend wholly upon its stimulating the in-
 testines, but in a great degree also, on its lubricating
 quality.
   It is therefore less liable to increase irritation, than
 almost any other  known purgative,  and may be
 safely had recourse to, where jalap, aloes, &c. would
 be found too acrid  and rough.
   Hence, where incipient inflammation is suspect-
 ed, castoh oil becomes a most desirable medicine,
 and maybe adiiiiiiislered in any quantity which may
 be necessary,  and the stomach  may  bear.  From
half an ounce to an ounce and a half, is a proper
 dose,  which may  be repeated every four or five
 hours, until motions are procured.  It is best taken
floating on the surface of peppermint water, or pre-
viously blended with a little honey.
   ESSENCE  OF   PEPPERMINT.
  This essence is very convenient for readily mak-
ing peppermint water; a few drops (either with or
without sugar) mixed with half a  pint of soft water,
and briskly  shaken  together, answer the  purpose
exceedingly we!l.  The proper strength can easily
be judged of by the palate.
                 3" 
38
  A few drops of essence of peppermint upon
sugar, prove a mild and grateful cordial, where there
is  languor  or  coldness at the stomach, possessing
this great advantage over spirituous liquids, that it
produces warmth, without stimulating  or  heating
the body.
  Peppermint water has been, on  this account,
frequently recommended in the foregoing pages, as
a convenient vehicle for  the  exhibition of  various
active  medicines which require dilution, or which
might otherwise offend the stomach.


                  JF. T II E R.
  /Ether  is so exceedingly volatile  thtit  it  must
always be kept closely stopped, and vv hen intended
to be taken, must  be expeditiously swallowed, lest
it wholly evaporate.
  Haifa drachm or a drachm of jethkr, in a little
water, often affords great relief in nervous headaches,
and in spasmodic affections.  It is also very  service-
able in asthmatic disorders, and in gouty or paralytic
complaints, where the system requires to be suddenly
and strongly rouzed.
  Applied to the forehead, it sometimes removes a
violent headache  almost  instantaneously ;  and  the
toothuche has been as suddenly cured,  by rubbing a 
39
little ^ther on the jaw of the side affected, or by
direct application of it to the diseased tooth.
        ELIXIR  OF   VITRIOL.
  This is a preparation of one of the powerful min-
eral acids;  it is found extremely beneficial as a tonic
medicine, in cases of loss of appetite and impaired
digestion; from ten to twenty drops are to be given
twice or thrice a day, either in water or any stomachic
bitter.  It is also an useful  auxiliary to the decoction
or infusion of bark, but has  some tendency to occa-
sion purging, and therefore  requires caution.
  This medicine possesses the property of checking
perspiration, when morbidly profuse, and is  there-
fore often  advantageously employed for  that pur-
pose.
       TINCTURE  OF  MYRRH.  '
  Tincture of myrrh, was formerly much recom-
mended for its power to strengtl en the stomach and
solids, and enable the body to resist putrefaction.
  It is still sometimes given  in the dose of thirty or
forty drops,  with these views:  but it is more gen-
erally employed to deterge or cleanse ulcerated sur-
faces, to preserve the teeth and gums, or to assist  in
                 3t 
40
the formation of gargles.   Two drachms of this
tincture, with two ounces  of rose water,  may be
used twice a day, to rub the gums with, as it is sup-
posed to render them more healthy and firm.
  An excellent gargle may be prepared as follows:
  Take of barley water, six ounces;  honey, one
    ounce; vinegar, two ounces; tincture of myrrh,
    three drachuis.
To be used  frequently as a gargle in cases of sore
throat, especially when attended with ash-coloured
specks or ulcerations.
          SPIRIT  OF  NITRE.
  This preparation of nitre, has long been deserv-
edly held in great esteem, as a febrifuge and diuretic;
taken in doses from twenty to  sixty drops diluted
with a sufficient quantity of icater,  it allays thirst,
expels flatulencies, and strengthens the stomach;
when mixed with a saline draught,  it promotes per-
spiration, and oftentimes acts powerfully as  a diu-
letic in some febrile cases.
     SPIRIT   OF   HARTSHORN.
  Twenty or thirty drops  of this spirit in a little
water, may be given with  advantage when the pa-
tient is low or faint; is suffering from  hysterics, or
from extreme torpor  of  the  system.  Its principal 
41
use, however, is as an external  application, either
held to the uose, as a stimulant in cases of languor
or  fainting;  or mixed with other substances, as a
liniment, to produce irritation and  redness on the
skin,  and  to remove  inflammation  and swelling
beneath.
  An ounce of olive oil, and half an ounce of spirit
of hartshorn,  make tho volatile liniment, which is a
very  efficacious remedy in the inflammatory sore
throat, the outside of which is to be well rubbed, and
kept constantly moist with it, until redness and in-
flammation are induced over the skin.
              OPODELDOC.
  As an external application, the soap liniment, or
opodeldoc, is extremely useful  in  bruises, sprains,
&c.   The part affected is to be frequently bathed
with this liniment, and, as far as possible, kept con-
stantly covered with it.
  Two ounces of opodeldoc, and  two drachms  of
laudanum, form the anodyne liniment, which is still
more efficacious in sprains  or contusions; in rheu-
matic pains, and similar local affections.

        TRAUMATIC  BALSAM.
  This medicine has long been celebrated as an ap-
 plication to cuts and recent wounds.  The following 
42
is the  best mode of applying it:  wash ont any ex-
traneous matter that may be within the wound, with
tepid water, bring the lips in close contact,  cover
them with a piece  of dry lint, then apply a pledget
of lint moistened with the balsam, and secure it upon
the part until  it adheres to the skin.   If this be not
disturbed for two days, the lips of the wound will
unite without  any discharge,  or,  in  surgical lan-
guage,  by the first  intention.
  It is taken internally for coughs, and pains in the
stomach, in doses  of one or two tea spoonsful, in
warm tea, sweetened.
         EXTRACT  OF   LEAD.
  This is a solution of lead in vinegar, and is wholly
confined to external use.
  A drachm of this liquid, mixed with four ounces
of water, is a powerful  repellant in  many cases of
swelling, where it is desirable to  avoid suppuration
(the formation of matter,) especially if it be employ-
ed at the commencement of tumefaction.
  It is also very useful in those cutaneous  eruptions
which can be repelled with safety, allaying the itch-
ing and irritation, «o extremely troublesome, and so
generally present; and removing or abating inflam-
mation where it has commenced. 
                       43
  The saturnine lotion thus prepared, is also a valu-
able application to burns  or  scalds.   A large piece
of huen rag, several times folded, should be dipped
i» it, and kept constantly applied  to the part in-
jured.
  When prepared with half  a drnchm of the ex-
trict of lead, it may be employed with advantage
in inflammation of the eyes.
  A repellant ointment, which in some instances is
preferable to this lotion, may be  expeditiously pre-
pared, by blending thirty  or  forty drops of the ex-
tract  ok lead, with half an ounce of cerate; it
may be spread  on lint,  and applied to sores occa-
sioned by burns, scalds, &c.
   The lotion may be mode,  if requisite, of double .
the above strength, and still applied to swellings with
perfect safety.                               •
       BLISTERING  PLASTER.
  In local pains, and inflnnunanons of parts inter-
nally situated, it is  often very beneficial to produce
a high degree of irritatiotr, and a serious discharge
from the surface, which is immediately contiguous
to the part affected.
  This end is best  answered by applications which
contain cantharides; such  compositions very seldom 
                       44
failing to excite blistering, and thereby to  abate the
pain and inflammation which subsist more internally.
  Blistering flasters, are therefore had recotuse
to witli great advantage,  in inflammations of the
throat, chest,  or belly;  and  in  local pains, as the
headache, toothache, &c, proportioning tlie magni-
tude of the plaster to the 3xtent and violence of the
pain, and to the  part affected.
  Topical  bleeding, by cupping or by  leeches, is
very generally proper before a  blister is applied;
and  where the  inflammation  runs high, or attacks
some vital  part,  as  the chest  or  abdomen, general
blood-letting (by opening  a vein in  the arm) is also
extremely requisite; the quantity and frequency be-
ing regulated  by  the circumstances of the case, and
the strength of the patient.
               BASILICON.
  Blisters may be kept open for a few days, by the
application of a little yellow basilicon spread upon
a thin rag.
  This ointment is also useful to stimulate and  pro-
cure a healthy discharge  from ulcerated  surfaces,
which are not clean, and from wounds which are
disposed to heal but slowly.
  fti these cases it should be spread on a  bit of fine
lint, which is to be renewed once or twice  daily. 
45
   STRENGTHENING  PLASTER,
  For weakness and pain in the loins, breast, side,
&c.   Spread  it on  thin leather or linen, by means
of a heated spatula, or  melted  in a cup, and apply
me plaster to th) affected part.
            WHITE  CERATE.
  This is  one of the mildest  applications that can
be  used to excoriated  or ulcerated surfaces;  it is
therefore  very commonly employed as a dressing
to blisters, which it is desirable to heal; and to burns
or scalds.   It is then, however, better to join with it
a little Goidard's Extract of Lead.   (Vide p. 42.)
         TURNER'S  CERATE,
  Possessing a slight degree of astringency, may be
substituted for the white cerate, in certain  cases, as
scalds and burns, where such  a quality is necessary
to promote the healing of the part affected.
      CHAMOMILE   FLOWERS,
  Are a very useful stomachic bitter.  An infusion
after the manner of tea, is generally drank during 
                       46
 the operation of an emetic; and with tho addition
 of some aromatic, as cinnamon, or ginger, may be
 taken with advantage by persons whose digestion is
 weak from long residence  in warm climates; from
 excessive drinking, or other canscs.
  Chamomile Flowers,  with  or without poppy-
heads, are employed in fomentations, to abate pain
and to promote suppuration.
             ARROW  ROOT.
  By boiling arrow root with water or milk, a nu-
tritions jelly is formed; which,  with a little wine,
sugar, and  nutmeg,  furnishes  an elegant  article of
diet for convalescents.
                  GINGER,
  Is an useful article iu the Materia Medica, but
rather as an auxiliary than a principal.
  A drachm of ginger,  bruised 01  powdered, and
three drachms of dried Seville orange peel, infused
in a pint of boiling water  for an hour or two, and
taken in the dose of a tea cupful  twice  a  day, has
been found an useful stomachic where digestion is
imperfect from a want of  energy in the  stomach;
and ginger with  milk has  been much used  and re-
commended as a  breakfast for persons of a gouty 
                       47
habit: but there is reason to think that the continued
use of all such stimulants has often been ultimately
prejudicial, and therefore  they ought to be cautious-
ly had recourse to.  As an addition to other medi-
cines, ginger is spoken of in various pages of this
work.
             BILIOUS   PILLS.
  These pills will be found serviceable in all bilious
complaints, obstructions of the stomach and bowels,
female complaints, and for the prevention  of  those
diseases incidental to hot climates.   They  operate
mildly as a cathartic and diuretic.
  The dose for an adult is three or four pills, taken
at bed time ;  and a proportionate quantity for a child.
As  an alterative, take two every twentyfour hours,
for  four or five days, or uutil relief is obtained, after
which take tonic medicines, such as Huxliam's  Tinc-
ture of Bark,  Peruvian Bark, or Chamomile Tea.
(See pages 13, 33, and 46.)
         ADHESIVE  PLASTER
  Is very useful for bringing into  close contact the
edges of cuts or wounds, and retaining them in that
situation: also to apply to tumours, which it is desir-
able to bring to suppuration (whire a poultice can- 
                       48
not be worn ;) and lastly for blistering plasters. The
cantharides plaster ought to be evenly spread  over a
surface of sufficient size to leave a margin uncovered,
which when applied, will adhere firmly to the part.

           COURT  PLASTER
  May be applied to small tumours or pimples, which
it  is desirable to defend from  the air, or to  render
less unsightly.  It requires to be slightly  wetted be-
fore it is made use of.
                    LINT
  Is app'ied as a soft dressing to wounds, and to re-
strain bleeding from divided parts: in the latter case
it may be  dipped in flour, or  spirit of turpentine,
whiihisa  powerful styptic.  When lint  is used
as a dressing, it is sometimes  better to spread its
surface with a little ointment, and at others to apply
the  lint alone.  Wounds which are perfectly clean,
or which require  to be  slightly stimulated, may be
treated in this latter manner. 
         OBSERVATIONS
                   ON

BLOOD    LETTING.
   The following observations are necessary to be
 attended to, since, however simple or unimportant
 the operation may appear, the life of a person some-
 times depends on its being well-timed and properly
 performed.
   Bleeding is proper after severe falls, where inter-
 nal bruises are  suspected;  and where such injury
 has been inflicted, by  any  accident, as to threaten
 inflammation, &c.
   In pleurisies, and other  inflammatory affections of
 the chest, known by pains or stitches in the chest or
 side;  cough aud difficult breathing; and a full,hard
 pulse ;  from  six to twelve ounces of blood may be
 taken away, and the operation be repeated in ten
 or twelve hours, if the blood has a sizy appearance,
 and the patient  has been clearly benefitted by the
 former bleeding.
  It may also be employed at the beginning of in-
flammatory fevers; but here it is  attended with  haz-
 ard, and therefore requires die utmost caution.
                4 
                      50
  Bleeding is often very serviceable in apoplectic,
and sometimes in epileptic JUs;  but the discrimina-
tion of such complaints is often difficult.
  Persons between the ages of twelve and forty, are
the most proper subjects for the lancet.  The aged
can ill bear this debilitating evacuation.
 DIRECTIONS  FOR  BLEEDING.
  Pass the bandage round the arm, two inches abovo
the elbow, moderately tight, so as to bring the super-
ficial veins into view; of these, choose that which is
most  prominent,  provided no pulsation can be felt
beneath, and if it does not roll under the finger.
   Let the patient extend  his arm, with the  hand
firmly clenched;  then holding the lancet  between
the fore-finger and the thumb  of the right  hand,
(whilst the thumb of the left keeps the vein steady)
make a puncture through  the skin and upper side
of the vein, in a somewhat oblique direction, raising
the lancet upwards, so as to make the incision suffi-
cienUy large.  The blood  is then to be suffered to
flow  freely  into  a basin, (whose  capacity has been
previously ascertained.)  When a sufficient  quan-
tity has been drawn, the bandage is to be slackened,
 and the lips of the wound nicely brought together;
 a bit of linen rag,  folded, is to be laid over them,
i 
51
and there secured by the bandage passed round the
arm, above and below the elbow.
  The right arm  of the  patient is most convenient
to bleed, as the  operator can then more easily use
his right hand in making the puncture. 
              UTENSILS

APPERTAINING  TO  THE  MEDICINE CHEST.
   Besides the various  medicines which have been
 sp^'.cn of in the preceding pages, the medicine chest
 contains  the  following articles  and utensils, which
 will b j found extremely convenient, for enabling the
 purchaser to employ the several  medicines and ap-
 plications with the greatest advantage.
   The smallest weights  in the box are grains; each
 circular impression stands for one grain.
   There arc six other weights in the same box, viz :
     2 Drachms -  3'j I     2 Scruples - J)ij
     1 ditto-----3j       1 ditto-----3j
     i ditto----3ss |     J ditto----3ss
  The respective denominations  of which are very
plainly marked.
  The glass  MEAsrRE  is graduated  from  half a
drachm up to one ounce ;  the  lowest line standing
for half a drachm;  the  next  for  one drachm ; the
next for two, then three, and so on. 
                       53
  The glass mortar and  pestlk are exceedingly
useful in mixing and rubbing down various articles,
as Mignesia, Bark, Manna, &c. which require to be
blended with, or dissolved in fluids.  After being
used, they should always be very carefully cleaned.
  The spatula is used for the purpose of spreading
plasters upon thin  leather or a rag : it must be heat-
ed before  it is employed, but not so strongly as to
burn the plaster;  this is to be particularly attended
to with respect to the blistering plaster, which will
otherwise be totally spoiled.
  The bolus knife, is convenient  for weighing
out or dividing powders, and for mixing up boluses,
&c.
  The tile is employed in rolling  pills, and  in
making up boluses, and  serves also  to blend oint-
msuts upon with any requisite addition.
  The lancet is for the purpose of opening a vein,
or puncturing any abscess which may have formed.
For the right manner of using it, see pages 50 and
51.
  A Syringe.  When  it is necessary to administer
a glyster, the Syringe is found very convenient, and
more desirable than  the ordinary pipe and bladder.
  A very simple glyster may be readily made, by
dissolving two  ounces  of salt butter  in a pint of
               4» 
54
warm gruel or water, or adding to the above quantity
of either, a table spoonful of salt, and two of oil.
  When a still more active glyster is requisite, an
ounce of Epsom  Salt or of Castor Oil, or of both.
mixed with a pint of thin water gruel, may be injected
and repeated in four hours, if necessary.
       TABLE  OF   DOSES,

proportioned to the age  of the  patient.
i adult	-----One.
21 years to	15 — three-fourths.
15 —	11 — two-thirds.
11 —	7 — one-half.
7 —	4 — one-third.
4 —	-----one-fourth.
3 —	— — one-sixth.
2 —	-----one-eighth.
1 —	-----one-twelfth.
6 months	-----one-sixteenth.
1 —	-----on>twentieth.
 
GENERAL  INDEX.
                                         Page.
Acids,       -       -       -      -        24,29
Acidities,       ....         18
Agues,      -----     13
Alkali,         ....         29
Alteratives,         -      -      -       - 22,24
Anodynes,    ....      26, 31
Anodyne Liniment,                           41
Antimonials,   -                       26,27,28
Appetite,          ....      39
Arrow Root,   ....         46
Asthma,   -----      38
Astringents,   ...       -         19

Bilious Pills,      -      ...      47
Bilious disorders,    -      -      -    25,26,47
Bitters,   ....        15; 33,45
Bleeding, see Haemorrhage.
Blistering,        ....      43
Blood-letting,         -      -       -   49,50,51
Brandy,  -----       36
Breathing, see Respiration. 
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Bruises,	- 41
Burns and Scalds,	43, 45
Calculous Complaints,	- 29
Calomel,	21
Cathartics, see Purgatives.	
Cholic,	31
Coldness at the Stomach,	37, 33
Cordials,	- 33,37
Costivencss,	- 14,19,32, 3"), 37
Coughs,	- 32,41
Cream of Tartar,	20
Cutaneous Diseases,	■42
Cuts, Wounds, &c.	42
Debility,	14, 26, 33
Diarrhiras, -	15, 18, 24, 30, 35
Digestion,	06, 38, 45
Diuretics, ...	20
Dropsy,	21
Emetics,	13, 24, 26, 28, 29
Emetic Tartar, -	26
Epsom Salt,	16
Fainting and Swooning,       -         33,40, 45
Fevers,   -     16, 18, 20, 22, 25, 26, 27, 30, 32, 34
Flatulency,      -      -      .      -    18,37
Fluxes,      -----    25 
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Gargle^                            -       -   40
Glysters,.....25, 31
Gout,        -      -       -       25,30, 38,46

Haemorrhage,    .    * .      -      .       42
Headaches,  -      -      -      -  15, 18, 33, 44
Heartburn,      -       -       -               18
Hysterics,    .....     40

Indigestion,     -      -      -      - 33,35,39
Inflammation,  16,  19, 30, 32, 35, 36,  37, 41, 42, 44
---------of the Bowels,       -       -        36
---------of the Eyes,      -      -           42
Intennittents,     -       -       -       -  13 to 16
Ipecacuanha,       ...      -     24
Irritation,       -      -      - 29, 31, 35, 41, 43

Jalap,.....20

Languor,       -       -       -       -  33, 37,41
Lint,.....48
Liver Diseased,        ...          22

Magnesia,        ....       18
Manna,       -      -       -     -      -   17
Mercurials,       ....      23
Mortification,  -       -      -     -      -   15
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Narcotics,      -      -      -      -        30
Nausea,     -----     23
Nervous Fevers,       -      -      -     13, 27
Nervous Headaches,      ...     38
Obstructions,    -       -       -        21, 25, 37
Pains, general,                               30
-----local,    -.-        20, 30, 31
Palsy,.....38
Perspiration,    -       21, 22, 25, 26, '28, 29, 39
Plaster, Adhesive,                            47
----- Court,  ....        48
----- Strengthening,                       45
Plethora,       -       -       -       -     16, 22
Purgatives,     16, 17 19, 20, 21, 22, 35, 37, 47
Purging,       -      -    16, 19, 22, 23, 37,  47
 Putrefaction,                                  39
 Repellents,    ....         42
 Rheumatism,      -      -      -      25, 30, 41
 Rhubarb,.....18
 Saline Medicines,      -          15, 16, 26, 29
 Saturnine Applications     -                  43
 Scalds and Burns,      -      -      -    43, 45
 Sciatica,     -      ..      .      .       -    29
 Sedatives,       ....       29
 Senna,            -      -      -       -    17 
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Sickness,        ....       29
Soreness of the Mouth,                       23
Sores,      % -      -      -        41, 44, 45
Spasmodic Cdtorplaints,    -      -    29, 30, 38
Sprains,       -       -      -      -      -   41
Stomachics,      -       -      15, 33, 35, 39, 46
Sudorifics,    -       -      -      -      25, 26
Suppuration,    ...       29, 30, 46
Sweat, see Perspiration,
Swellings,      ....    4if 42
Swoonings,  -----   41

Teeth and Gums,      -      -           28, 40
Throat, sore,      -      -       -      -  40, 43
-----  ulcerated,      ...        40
Tonics,      -      -      -           15, 33, 39
Toothache,     -      -      -      -    39, 44
Topical Bleeding,   ...          44
Torpor,        ....        41

 Ulcers,    ----      15, 40, 45
 Venesection,   -      -      -       -     44, 49
 Vermifuge Medicines,    -      -        21, 22
 Vomiting,     -     -      -     -    24, 26, 28
 Worms,.....21, 22
 Wounds,    -      -      -      -   42, 44 48