Selections from Favorite Prescriptions of Living American Practitioners (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: These pills are very effective in the treatment of dysmenorrhoea. One pill may be exhibited every hour or two hours till the pain ceases. In females of a nervous temperament, when painful menstruation occurs, independent of organic lesions, these pills, administered as above directed, seldom fail of affording relief. In those cases of dysmenorrhoea where a tonic is not particularly indicated, the following are more appropriate, and are equally efficacious: 3Ji Extracti Belladonnae, gr. viij. Ipecacuanhce pulv., gr. x. Zinci Sulphatis, . 3 ss. M. Fiant pilulae xxx., quarum capiat imam qua"- que horsi, donee leniatur dolor. The following pills are highly recommended by an intelligent and experienced practitioner, in the treatment of leucorrhoea, occurring in anemic and nervous females: "Sf Extracti Hyoscyami, 3 j. Argenti Nitratis, . gr. x. Cantharidis pulv., . gr. xii. Quiniae Disulphatis, 9 ij. Fiant pilulae xl. Sumat unam mane et nocte. The same physician advises the subjoined formula as a combination that may be employed with great advantage as a diuretic and alterative in the treatment of cellular dropsy: Extract! Conii, . 3 j. Cantharidis pulv., 3 ij. Hydrarg. Submur., 3 ss. Ipecacuanhae pulv., 3j. M. Fiat massa, in pilulas xl. dividenda. Cujus capiat unam ter quaterve in die. A combination of the extract of Belladonna with Quinine has been employed, very efficaciously, in the treatment of gastralgia. ty Extracti Belladonnae, 3 ss. Quiniae Disulphatis, 3 j. M. Fiant pilulae xxx. Sumat unam ter in die. Professor C. C. Cox, of Maryland, who has contributed some valuable prescriptions to this volume of Medical Formulae, advises the following mixture to be administered in gastralgia: V- 15. ty Tinct. Opii, Tinct. Capsici, .Ether. Sulph. s Tinc...