Formulae for Making Tinctures, Infusions, Syrups, Wines, Mixtures, Pills, Etc; Simple and Compound, from the Fluid and Solid Extracts, Prepared at the Laboratory of Tilden & Co. ... - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...for an overdose of Veratrum; or syrup of sulphate of morphine one part, fluid extract of ginger two parts. Dose of this mixture for an adult male, sixty drops every fifteen minutes till relieved. Veratrin.............Dose--One-sixteenth to half grain. Pills.................. Half and one-quarter grain each. Fluid Extract............... Eight ounces. Alcohol. seventy per cent..... Eight ounces. D0se--Two to four drops, observing the effects and increase required. Fluid Extract............... One dram. Water...................... Eight ounces. D0se--TWo to four drams each hour. The dose should be too small to produce emesis.--I C. llfiller. Trerbena Hastata. Vervain. Common l'l3,I116S--Vl-JRBENA_ SiMPnER's JoY. Indigenous to the United States. The root and tops are used in medicine.. MEDICAL PROPERTIES. Tonic, emetic, sudorific, and a soothing and palliative expectorant. It may be employed in catarrh, bronchial affections and pulmonary disorders. Used in intermittent fever, obstructed menstruation, in scrofilla. and visceral obstructions. PREPA RATION. Fluid Extract.............. Dose--Halt' to one dram. Fluid Extract.................... Half ounce. Water......................... Fifteen and a half ounces. Common names---SNOw BALL, CRANBERRY TREE, NAnny Bnsn BARK, GUELn1':R's Ross, SHEEP's BERRY. Is a handsome mdigenous shrub, growing in low, rich lands, in the northern part of the United States and Canada; flowering in June. Is a powerful antispasmodic, arid in consequence of this property received the name of Cramp Bark. Is used in asthma, spasms, cramps, and with females subject to convulsions during pregnancy, or at the time of parturition. It is said to prevent these attacks entirely, if used daily for the last...

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