ib. General Remarks on the Sympathies, Natural and Morbid, 248 General Remarks on Customs and Habits, ................ General Questions to Patients, with Practical Remarks, ... 257-268 Barrenness, Bilious Complaints, Bleeding of the Nose, Blood discharged from the Bladder, ..... - ...... ..... Treatment of the Scrofulous ib. Indigestion, . CHEMICAL AND MEDICAL HALL, 170, Piccadilly, London; 44, Foregate Street, Worcester; and 4, East Street, Brighton. THIS establishment was opened in London by Reece and Co. about thirty years since, for the purpose of supplying the public with genuine drugs, and all chemical preparations or re-agents of the purest quality, and for compounding prescriptions and domestic receipts with the greatest exactness, and on the most reasonable terms. The ingredients of prescriptions, &c. being charged separately, according to their respective value, the expence of a mixture amounts to less, by one half, than the usual charge. A translation of the prescription is given, if required. A variety of medicine and chemical test chests, adapted to all climates and different uses, and of apparatus for analysis, philosophical experiments, &c. &c. may be obtained at the lowest price, with directions for their various uses. A full description of these chests, with an enumeration of their contents, is given in the catalogue of drugs lately published by the proprietors. The wrapper of every article sold or dispensed at this establishment has a label descriptive of its contents, and expressive of its having been thence obtained. The Medical Hall is patronised by the Royal Family, the Nobility, and the most eminent Physicians and Chemists in the . United Kingdom, and since its establishment not an instance of inaccuracy or mistake in dispensing medicine can be adduced. All the drugs, &c. being inspected by Dr. Reece before they are distributed for sale, or for compounding prescriptions, the most implicit confidence may be placed in the genuineness of every article procured at this institution. Artificial and natural products are analysed with the greatest care. Reece and Co. request their friends residing in the country, or in the East or West Indies, to direct their orders to them at the Medical Hall, 170, Piccadilly, London, as agents are very apt to send the commissions they receive to their own druggists, whose inferior articles enable them to make a larger allowance. PART I. THE MODERN DOMESTIC DISPENSATORY. For this very important department of practical medicine, I have made choice of those articles which are employed by the most experienced and scientific physicians of the day, in the cure, palliation, and prevention of the diseases incident to the human frame, and which, from their great utility, the leading family of a parish that does not afford immediate medical aid should be furnished. The advantages of such a provision from a respectable source, are too obvious to render an enumeration necessary. It not only affords the means of exhibiting the appropriate remedy or antidote in cases of emergency, as fits and other sudden attacks of diseases and occurrences, as poisoning, suffocation, scalds, burns, &c. &c., in which the relief should be speedy to be effectual, but enables a person to exercise the charity most delightful to the benevolent heart and acceptable to the afflicted, of mitigating the corporeal sufferings of his indigent neighbours, and of restoring the bloom of health to the wan and faded cheeks of poverty and disease. The tribute of applause is never more justly due, nor more honourably conferred, than when it is bestowed on those who employ their fortunes and talents in lessening the sum of human misery; who, Christianlike, sit by the side of affliction, promoting the recovery of health, and diminishing the anguish of disease. Many classifications of remedies have been published, chiefly by lecturers on the materia medica, for the use of their pupils, with the view of rendering the study less laborious. Some have adopted, as a basis of their arrangements, their medicinal properties, others the kingdoms of nature of which they are products, and others their chemical qualities. Such classifications may, to a partially educated physician, appear scientific, but to practitioners acquainted with all the department of medicine, and who have had opportunities of B |