Modern domestic medicine : a popular treatise, describing the symptoms, causes, distinction, and correct treatment of the diseases incident to the human frame, embracing the modern improvements in medicine, to which are added, a domestic materia medica, a copious collection of approved prescriptions, &c. &c, The whole intended as a comprehensive medical guide for the use of clergymen, heads of families, emigrants etc. / by Thomas J. Graham.

  • Graham, Thomas John, 1795?-1876.
Date:
1872
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Credit: Modern domestic medicine : a popular treatise, describing the symptoms, causes, distinction, and correct treatment of the diseases incident to the human frame, embracing the modern improvements in medicine, to which are added, a domestic materia medica, a copious collection of approved prescriptions, &c. &c, The whole intended as a comprehensive medical guide for the use of clergymen, heads of families, emigrants etc. / by Thomas J. Graham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    followed by injurious effects, it should always form a part of the opening medicine administered; on the contrary, when these fluxes are already too profuse, or apt to recur on the operation of slight causes, aloes should never be given. The dose is from five to fifteen grains, made into a pill with a little soap and mucilage of gum arabic; but it is almost always best given in combination with colocynth and myrrh, &c. as in the compound colocynth pill. Aloes forms the basis of most of the aperient pills in common use, such as Dixon’s, Hooper’s, and Fothergill’s Antibilious Pills. Lady Webster’s, or Lady Crespigny’s dinner pill, is made by mixing three drachms of the best aloes with one drachm of mastic and one of red roses, which are to be beat into a mass with a sufficient quantity of syrup of wormwood, and divided into one hundred pills. One, two, or three of them are taken every day an hour before dinner. They produce a copious and bulky evacuation, and, when they agree, increase the appetite. The beaume de vie, or compound decoction of aloes, presents an excellent form of taking aloes. It this way it does not at all injuriously affect the rectum. There are several kinds of aloes, the best of which are the socotorine, which is in small pieces of a reddish brown colour. ALKALINE SOLUTION. This medicine is a solution of lime, the ashes of the ash tree, &c. in water, and was first recommended to public attention as a remedy in king’s evil and general debility. It certainly is sometimes of great utility in indigestion, bilious complaints, and red gravel; also in general weakness accom- panied with a sense of fluttering about the heart. Under the head of Indigestion, I have noticed the description of cases in wpich it is more especially useful. An elderly lady was some time since complaining much of langour, weakness, drowsiness, and an uncomfortable sensation of fluttering about the region of the heart, occasionally accompanied with defi- cient appetite, to whom I recommended a trial of this alkali, in doses of half a tea-spoonful twice a day, in a tea-cupful of milk and water. After taking it for three or four weeks, she found her spirits much enlivened, and her appetite and strength greatly increased; and by continuing it a short time longer, the sense of fluttering entirely left her, and she became quite well, after having tried in vain various tonic medicines re- commended to her by several able professional imen whom she hack previously consulted. Its powers of neutralizing morbid acidity in the stomach, and thus curing heart-burn, are scarcely