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562. Diseases.

For the proper Remedies and their Doses see "C Prescriptions."

563. It should be clearly understood, that in all cases of disease, the advice of a skilful physician is of the first importance. It is not, therefore, intended by the following information to supersede the important and necessary practice of the medical man; but rather, by exhibiting the treatment required, to show in what degree his aid is imperative. In cases, however, where the disorder may be simple and transient, or in which remote residence, or other circumstances, may deny the privilege of medical attendance, the following particulars will be found of the utmost value. Moreover, the hints given upon what should be AVOIDED will be of great service to the patient, since the physiological is no less important than the medical treatment of disease.

564. APOPLEXY.-Immediate and large bleeding from the arm, cupping at the back of the neck, leeches to the temples, aperients Nos. 1 and 7, one or two drops of croton oil rubbed or dropped on the tongue. Avoid excesses, intemperance, animal food.

565. BILE, BILIOUS, OR LIVER COMPLAINTS.-Abstinence from malt liquors, cool homœopathic cocoa for drink, no tea or coffee, few vegetables, no broths or soups; lean juicy meat not overcooked for dinner, with occasionally stale bread and a slice of toasted bacon for breakfast. Nos. 59 and 60.

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566. CHICKEN Pox.--Mild aperients, No. 4, succeeded by No. 7, and No. 8, if much fever accompany the eruption. 567. CHILBLAINS. - Warm, dry woollen clothing to exposed parts in cold weather, as a preventive. In the first stage, frictions with No. 63, used cold. When ulcers form they should be poulticed with bread and water for a day or two, and then dressed with calamine cerate. Or chilblains in every stage, whether of simple inflammation or open ulcer, may always be successfully

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treated by the extract of lead (Liquor plumbi acetatis), used pure or applied on lint twice a day.

568. COMMON CONTINUED FEVER.Aperients in the commencement, No. 1, followed by No. 7, then diaphoretics, No. 8, and afterwards tonics, No. 16, in the stage of weakness. Avoid all excesses.

569. COMMON COUGH.-The linctus, No. 57 or No. 58, abstinence from malt liquor, and protection from cold damp air. Avoid cold, damp, and draughts.

570. CONSTIPATION.-The observance of a regular period of evacuating the bowels, which is most proper in the morning after breakfast. The use of mild aperients, No. 62, brown bread instead of white. There should be an entire change in the dietary for a few days while taking opening medicine.

571. CONSUMPTION. The disease may be complicated with various morbid conditions of the lungs and heart, which require appropriate treatment. To allay the cough, No. 57 is an admirable remedy. Avoid cold, damp, excitement, and over exertion.

572. CONVULSIONS (CHILDREN). If during teething, free lancing of the gums, the warm bath, cold applications to the head, leeches to the temples, an emetic, and a laxative clyster, No. 24.

573. CROUP.-Leeches to the throat, with hot fomentations as long as the attack lasts; the emetic, No. 19, afterwards the aperient, No. 5. Avoid cold and damp.

574. DROPSY.-Evacuate the water by means of No. 11, and by rubbing camphorated oil into the body night and morning.

575. EPILEPSY.-If accompanied or produced by fulness of the vessels of the head, leeches to the temples, blisters, and No. 1 and No. 7. If from debility or confirmed epilepsy, the mixture, No. 22. Avoid drinking and excitement.

576. ERUPTIONS ON THE FACE.-The powder, No. 34, internally, sponging the face with the lotion, No. 35. Avoid excesses in diet.

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BE TEMPERATE IN ALL THINGS.

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void cold and damp, use clothing the same time a regulated diet. When ited to the changes of temperature. the piles are external, or can be reached, 595. INTERMITTENT FEVER, OR one or two applications of the extract GUE. Take No. 16 during the in- of lead, with an occasional dose of ›rmission of the paroxysm of the fever; lenitive electuary, will generally succeping the bowels free with a wine- ceed in curing them. lass of No. 7. Avoid bad air, stagnant pools, &c.

596. ITCH.-The ointment of No. 32, or lotion No. 33.

597. JAUNDICE. The pills No. 1, afterwards the mixture No. 7, drinking freely of dandelion tea.

598. LOOSENESS OF THE BOWELS (ENGLISH CHOLERA).-One pill No. 23, repeated if necessary; afterwards the mixture No. 25. Avoid unripe fruits, acid drinks, ginger beer; wrap flannel around the abdomen.

599. MEASLES.-A well-ventilated room, aperients No. 4, with No. 17 to allay the cough and fever.

607. QUINSEY.-A blister applied all round the throat: an emetic, No. 19, commonly succeeds in breaking the abscess; afterwards the gargle No. 20. Avoid cold and damp.

608. RHEUMATISM.-Bathe the affected parts with No. 27, and take internally No. 28, with No. 29 at bedtime, to ease pain, &c. Avoid damp and cold, wear flannel.

609. RICKETS.-The powder No. 37, a dry, pure atmosphere, a nourishing diet.

610. RINGWORM.-The lotion No. 36, with the occasional use of the powder No. 5. Fresh air and clean, liness.

600. MENSTRUATION (EXCESSIVE). -No. 47 during the attack, with rest 611. SCARLET FEVER.-Well venin the recumbent position; in the inter-tilated room, sponging the body when vals, No. 46. hot with cold or tepid vinegar, or spirit

601. MENSTRUATION (SCANTY).-In and water; aperients, No. 4; diapho strong patients, cupping the loins, ex-retics, No. 8. If dropsy succeed the ercise in the open air, 47, the feet in disappearance of the eruption, frequent warm water before the expected period, purging with No. 5, succeeded by the pills No. 45; in weak subjects, No. 7. No. 46. Gentle and regular exercise. Avoid hot rooms, and too much sleep. 602. MENSTRUATION (PAINFUL).No. 48 during the attack; in the intervals, No. 45 twice a week, with No. 46. Avoid cold, mental excitement, &c.

603. MUMPS.-Fomentation with a decoction of camomiles and poppy heads; No. 4 as an aperient, and No. 9 during the stage of fever. Avoid cold, and attend to the regularity of the bowels.

604. NERVOUSNESS.-Cheerful society, early rising, exercise in the open air, particularly on horseback, and No. 15. Avoid excitement, study, and late meals.

605. PALPITATION OF THE HEART. --The pills No. 2, with the mixture No. 15.

606. PILES.-The paste No. 38, at

612. SCROFULA.-Pure air, light but warm clothing, diet of fresh animal food; bowels to be regulated by No. 6 and No. 30, taken regularly for a considerable time.

613. SCURVY. - Fresh animal and vegetable food, and the free use of ripe fruits and lemon juice. Avoid cold and damp.

614. SMALL-POX. A well-ventilated apartment, mild aperients; if fever be present, No. 7, succeeded by diaphoretics No. 8, and tonics No. 16 in the stage of debility, or decline of the eruption.

615. ST. VITUS'S DANCE. - The occasional use, in the commencement, of No. 5, followed by No. 7, afterwards No. 61.

616. THRUSH.-One of the powders No. 6 every other night; in the intervals a dessertspoonful of the mixture No. 22

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KEEP THE HEAD COOL AND THE FEET WARM.

three times a day; white spots to be
dressed with the honey of borax.

617. TIC DOLOREUX.-Regulate the
bowels with No. 3, and take in the
intervals of pain No. 31. Avoid cold,
damp, and mental anxiety.
618. TOOTHACHE. Continue the
use of No. 3 for a few alternate days.
Apply liquor ammonia to reduce the
pain, and when that is accomplished,
fill the decayed spots with silver suc-
cedaneum without delay, or the pain
wili return. A drop of creosote, or a
few drops of chloroform on cotton,
applied to the tooth, or a few grains of
camphor placed in the decayed opening,
or camphor moistened with turpentine,
will often afford instant relief.

619. TYPHUS FEVER. the body with cold or tepid water, a Sponging well-ventilated apartment, cold applications to the head and temples. Aperients No. 4, with refrigerants No. 9; tonics No. 16 in the stage of debility.

620. WATER ON THE BRAIN. Local bleeding by means of leeches, blisters, aperients No. 5, and mercurial medicines No. 18.

621. WHITES.-The mixture No. 43, with the injection No. 44. light but warm, moderate exercise in Clothing the open air, country residence.

622. WORMS IN THE INTESTINES.The aperient No. 5 followed by No. 7, afterwards the free use of lime water and milk in equal parts, a pint daily. Avoid unwholesome food.

623. Prescriptions.

To be used in the Cases enumerated under the head" Diseases."

624. The following prescriptions, originally derived from various prescribers' Pharmacopoeias, embody the favourite remedies employed by the most eminent physicians:

1. Take of powdered aloes, nine grains; extract of colocynth, compound, eighteen grains; calomel, nine grains; tartrate of antimony, two grains; mucilage, sufficient to make a mass, which is to be divided into six pills; two to be taken every twenty-four

hours, till they act thoroughly on the
apoplexy, &c.
bowels: in cases of inflammation,

and gum mastiche, each one scruple;
2. Powdered rhubarb, Socotrine alocs,
make into twelve pills: one before and
one after dinner.

extract of jalap, and Castile soap, of 3. Compound extract of colocynth, each one scruple; make into twelve pills.

mel, three grains: in fevers, for adults. 4. James's powder, five grains; caloFor children, the following:-Powdered camphor, one scruple; calomel and powdered scammony, of each nine grains; James's powder, six grains; mix, and divide into six powders. Half of one powder twice a day for an infant years; and for four years, the same a year old; a whole powder for two three times a day.

5. James's powder, six grains; powdered jalap, ten grains; mix, and divide the child's age: in one powder if for into three or four powders, according to an adult.

mercury and chalk, three grains; ginger
6. Powdered rhubarb, four grains;
rient for children.
in powder, one grain: an alterative ape-

7. Dried sulphate of magnesia, six infusion of senna, seven ounces; tincdrachms; sulphate of soda, three drachms; ture of jalap, and compound tincture of cardamoms, each half an ounce: in acute diseases generally; take two tablespoonfuls every four hours till it operates freely.

8. Nitrate of potass, one drachm and ounce; camphor mixture, and the spirit a half; spirits of nitric ether, half an of mindererus, each four ounces: in fevers, &c.; two tablespoonfuls three times a day, and for children a dessertspoonful every four hours.

dilute nitric acid, two drachms; syrup,
9. Spirit of nitric ether, three drachms;
three drachms; camphor mixture, seven
ounces: in fevers, &c., with debility;
dose as last.

mixture, of each three ounces and a half;
10. Spirit of mindererus and camphor

GUARD THE FOOT, AND THE HEAD WILL SELDOM HARM.

wine of antimony, one drachm and a half; wine of ipecacuanha, one drachm and a half; syrup of tolu, half an ounce: dose as last.

11. Decoction of broom, half a pint; cream of tartar, one ounce; tincture of squills, two drachms: in dropsies; a third part three times a day.

12. Pills of soap and opium, five grains for a dose, as directed.

13. Compound powder of ipecacuanha, seven to twelve grains for a dose, as directed.

14. Battley's solution of opium, from ten to forty drops; camphor mixture, an ounce and a half: in a draught at bedtime.

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carbonate of ammonia, two scruples; compound tincture of bark, six drachms; spirits of ether, two drachms: tablespoonful every twenty-four hours. 23. Blue pill, four grains; opium, half a grain: to be taken three times a day.

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24. FOR A CLYSTER.-A pint and a half of gruel or fat broth, a tablespoonful of castor oil, one of common salt, and a lump of butter; mix, to be injected slowly. A third of this quantity enough for an infant.

25. Chalk mixture, seven ounces; aromatic and opiate confection, of each one drachm; tincture of catechu, six drachms: two tablespoonfuls every two hours.

15. Ammoniated tincture of valerian, six drachms; camphor mixture, seven 26. Carbonate of soda, powdered ounces: a fourth part three times a rhubarb, and Castile soap, each one day; in spasmodic and hysterical dis-drachm; make thirty-six pills; three orders. twice a day.

16. Disulphate of quina, half a drachm; dilute sulphuric acid, twenty drops; compound infusion of roses, eight ounces: two tablespoonfuls every four hours, in intermittent and other fevers, during the absence of the paroxysm.

17. Almond mixture, seven ounces and a half; wine of antimony and ipecacuanha, of each one drachm and a half: a tablespoonful every four hours; in cough with fever, &c.

18. Calomel, one grain; powdered white sugar, two grains; to make a powder to be placed on the tongue every two or three hours. Should the calomel act on the bowels, powdered kino is to be substituted for the sugar.

19. Antimony and ipecacuanha wines, of each an ounce; a teaspoonful every ten minutes till it vomits: but for an adult a large tablespoonful to be taken. 20. Compound infusion of roses, seven ounces; tincture of myrrh, one ounce. 21. Decoction of bark, six ounces; aromatic confection, one drachm; tincture of opium, five drops.

22. Infusion of orange peel, seven ounces; tincture of hops, half an ounce; and a drachm of carbonate of soda: two tablespoonfuls twice a day. Or, infusion of valerian, seven ounces;

27. LOTION.. Common salt, one ounce; distilled water, seven ounces; spirits of wine, one ounce: mix.

28. Dried sulphate of magnesia, six drachms; heavy carbonate of magnesia, two drachms; wine of colchicum, two drachms; water, eight ounces: take two tablespoonfuls every four hours.

29. Compound powder of ipecacuanha, ten grains; powdered guaiacum, four grains in a powder at bedtime.

30. Brandish's solution of potash; thirty drops twice a day in a wineglass of beer.

31. Disulphate of quina, half a drachm; dilute sulphuric acid, ten drops; compound infusion of roses, eight ounces: two tablespoonfuls every four hours, and as a tonic in the stage of weakness succeeding fever.

32. Flowers of sulphur, two ounces; hog's lard, four ounces; white hellebore powder, half an ounce; oil of lavender, sixty drops.

33. Hydriodate of potass, two drachms; distilled water, eight ounces.

34. Flowers of sulphur, half a drachm; carbonate of soda, a scruple; tartarized antimony, one-eighth of a grain: one powder, night and morning, in eruptions of the skin or face.

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