CATALOGUE OF DRUGS, WITH THEIR PROPERTIES, DOSES, AND RETAIL PRICES. IRON, Muriated 10 to 30 dps. 6 dps. tonic rickets, worms, &c. CATALOGUE OF DRUGS, WITH THEIR PROPERTIES, DOSES, AND RETAIL PRICES. TURPENTINE, Venice... GUAIAC GUM 30 to 60 dps. 10 to 15 grs. 2 to 4 drms. drm. 30 to 80 dps. 1 to 2 drms. 10 to 30 dps. .... 20 to 40 dps. 2 to 4 grs. gr. ditto, three times a day honey ditto diuretic, &c. Spirit of 15 to 20 dps. ditto ditto ditto 10 to 15 dps. ditto ditto ditto ditto, twice a day mint water camomile-tea, tw. a day stomachic ditto ditto and vermifuge nervous head-ache, &c. ditto lowness of spirits, &c. mint water ditto, twice a day aperient costiveness, indigestion 60 tonic green sickness, whites 80 3 ARTICLES OF APPROVED EFFICACY, NOT INCLUDED IN THE CONTENTS OF THE FAMILY MEDICINE CHEST. LIME-WATER.--THIS very useful article is made in the following manner: Mix, and set them aside in a covered earthen vessel for one hour, then pour off the clear water, and keep it in bottles well corked for use. When weakness of the stomach is accompanied with acidity and flatulency, this article affords an excellent auxiliary vehicle, in the quantity of a wine-glassful, for taking the compound tincture of ginger and camomile, No. 7., or the aromatic tincture of rhatany root. Lime-water being capable of dissolving slime or mucus in the stomach and intestines, a redundancy of which affords a nidus or lodgment for worms, will considerably promote the efficacy of vermifuge medicines, in the dose of a tea-cupful two or three times a day. (See BASILIC POWDER.)-Lime-water has been much celebrated as an alterative in scrofula and rickets: in the latter case it has not supported its character, while in the former it is still recommended. The good effects produced by it, in such cases, probably arise from its neutralizing acidity in the stomach, and promoting digestion. In cases of purging, where the object is more to restrain than entirely to check it, lime-water will answer better than the chalk or cretaceous mixture. It may be given in the following form: Take of Lime-water, Compound Tincture of Cardamom Seeds, 6 ounces. Two or three table-spoonsful to be taken three or four times a day. The addition of a little lime-water to milk makes it sit easy on weak stomachs; and with this admixture, in the proportion of a table-spoonful to half a pint, invalids have been able to take milk, after it has disagreed in every other form. For weakly rickety children, particularly when the intestines are irritable, and the bowels enlarged, lime-water is a very valuable medicine.-(See RICKETS.) The late Dr. Hutchinson, of Dublin, was very partial to an infusion of the Peruvian bark in lime-water, in cases of general debility of the system from bad digestion, in advanced stages of scrofula, and in rickets. Sir John Jervis speaks in high terms of this combination, from the effects it produced in several cases of debility which had been considered by medical men of eminence hopeless. BARLEY-WATER. Take of Pearl-barley, 2 ounces. First wash the barley with some cold water, then boil it a short time with half a pint of water, to extract the colouring matter; throw this away, and put the barley thus purified into five pounds of boiling water, which is to be boiled down to one half, and then strained for use. The compound barley-water, an excellent pectoral drink, is made in the following manner: Take of Barley-water, prepared as above, Liquorice Root, sliced and bruised, Distilled Water, Boil to two pints, and strain. 2 pints. ounce. 2 ounces. 1 pint. These liquors afford a very excellent diluting beverage in cases of acute disease, the former in inflammatory fevers, and the latter in inflammatory attacks of the chest, as pleurisy and inflammation of the lungs, recent coughs, &c. As their efficacy depends on their free use, it is important that they should be prepared so as to be elegant and agreeable to the palate for this reason, the directions above have been inserted in the London Dispensatory, and the several circumstances which contribute to their elegance particularized, as the previous washing of the barley, and extraction of its colouring matter. The addition of a little lemon or orange juice, or currant jelly, will take off the raw taste of barley-water, and, in most instances, promote its efficacy. However trivial medicines of this class may appear to be, they are of greater efficacy in the cure of acute diseases than many other elaborate preparations. The Almonds to be first blanched, by infusing them in boiling water, and afterwards peeling them. They are then to be well beaten in a marble mortar, with the sugar, to a smooth pulp, when the water is to be added by degrees, and the rubbing continued L |