The medical formulary : being a collection of prescriptions derived from the writings and practice of many of the most eminent physicians in America and Europe : to which is added an appendix, containing the usual dietetic preparations and antidotes for poisons : the whole accompanied with a few brief pharmaceutic and medical observations / by Benjamin Ellis.

  • Ellis, Benjamin, 1798-1831.
Date:
1849
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Credit: The medical formulary : being a collection of prescriptions derived from the writings and practice of many of the most eminent physicians in America and Europe : to which is added an appendix, containing the usual dietetic preparations and antidotes for poisons : the whole accompanied with a few brief pharmaceutic and medical observations / by Benjamin Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CLASS TI. EXPECTORANTS. During the administration of Expectorants the patient should be kept warm, and if the complaint be violent, in bed. The dose of all Expectorants should be repeated sufficiently often to allay the irritation as much as possible ; for it is obvious that the act of coughing increases that very irritation which originally gave rise to it. POWDERS, PILLS, &c. Powders of Myrrh, Ipecacuanha, 8fc. R. Pulveris myrrhae, gr. xij. ipecacuanhse, gr. vj. potassse nitratis, 3&s. Misce et divide in doses quatuor. One to be taken every fourth hour. A stimulating expectorant.—Paris's Pharmacologia. Compound Powder of Ipecacuanha. R. Pulveris ipecacuanha? compositi, 5ss. Divide in chartulas iij et signa.—One, two or three times in 24 hours, mixed in sugar and water. This, the Dover's powder, has been already introduced under the head of Diaphoretics, where perhaps it most properly belongs; but it often proves of such decided advantage as an expectorant, as to deserve an insertion here. Powders with Nitrate of Potash, Calomel, Opium, fyc. R. Potassae nitratis, 3j. Hydrargyri chloridi mitis, gr. iij. Pulveris opii, gr. iij. ■ ipecacuanhas, gr. iij vel vj. Misce et divide in chartulas vj, et signa.—One every two or three hours in sirup or molasses.