Dartmouth Medical Student Notebooks

62747 2,000

T. Chadbourne Hanover 1811

Index. page

Bals. Vita - - - 1 Remedy for Dysentary - - - 1 Dewees Tint. - - - 2 Fermenting Poultice - - - 2 Hoopers Pills - - - 3 Pills for Cough - - - 3 Remedy for Dropsy - - - 3 British Oil - - - 4 Stoughtons Bitters - - - 4 White Mixture - - - 4 Cathertin Pills - - - 5 Remedy for Sprains - - - 5 Hooping Cough - - - 5 Rheumatic Application - - - 6 Cholera Morbus - - - 6 Anodyn Pills - - - 7 Liquid Blacking - - - 7 For a Felon - - - 8 Iron Pills Spontaneous Haemorrhege - - - 8

Iron Pills - - - 9 Palpitation of the heart - - - 9 Pills for cough - - - 10 Myrrh Mixture - - - 10 Rheumatic draugh - - - 11 Bals. Honey - - - 11 Stramonium Mixture - - - 12 Sealing wax - - - 12 Blood wort & opium - - - 13 Dysenteria - - - 14 Dropsy - - - 15 Scrophula - - - 15 Chronic ophthalmia - - - 16

Formulae Selectae. --

1 Bals. Vita.

Ry. Bals. Peru - - - ℥ i Gm. Benz. - - ℥ iii Thus. - - - - - ℥ ſs Soct. Alou - - ℥ sſ Gm. Myrrh - - ℥ ſs Alcohol - - ℔ ſs

Digest for four days & strain. - - -

Dysentaria

Ry. Decoction of the roots of blackberry (Robus occidentalis) is a safe & sure cure for the abov disease. N. B. This recipe was procured from the oneida Indians.

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Dewees Tincture

Ry. Gm. Guiae. - - ℥ viii Sal Tart. - - - ℥ iii Pin[...]nta - - - ℥ii Proof Spirit - - - ℔ ii

dose one tea spoonful three in a day in a glaſs of water. ※-

The above is the most powerful emmenagogue we possess. If purges add laudanum. -

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Fomenting Poultie

Boil a sufficient quantity of malt moderately, - thicken it with rye meal till it becomes tenacious, then, after spreading it on a cloth one inch thick, spread some [im]tings on it + apply it the part.

When malt cannot be had, coarse rye meal stired into boiling water will answer. - - -

N. Smith

※ in the interval between each menstruation. -

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Hoopers Pills -

Ry. Sal. Martis - - - ℥ i Aloe Soi. - - -- ℥ i i Gm. Avil. - - -[...][q].s.

[Cabine] the sal. mar. and mix the aloe in a fine powder

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Pills for Cough.

Ry - Gm. opii - - - - ʒ i Sulph. Cupri - - ℈ i i

make into pills - N.B. the patient should taken freely of [pearl each] . - - - Dr Brewster

each pill may contain opii ^[1]/₂ gr - Cupri ¹/₄ M. Smith

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For Dropsy. -

Ry. Gm. Ammo- Squills - soap :aa Canth i gr -

dor. one pill morn. and even.

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British Oil

Ry - Ol. Suui. nub. Petrolium aa - - ℔ i i Sp[rits]. Terbinth. -- ℔ i

mix.

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Stoughtons Bitters

Ry- Rad. Gent. - - - Cort. Aurant. aa ℔ ii Red Saunders - - - ℥ iii Cardamum seeds Amomum - aa ℥ iiii

[] seperately then mix.

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White Mixture

Ry - Lai. Ammone - - ℥ iiii Syr. bals. tolu - - - - ℥ i tinct opii camphorat. ʒ vi ain. anti. tart - - ℥ ſs.

dose a table spoonful thrice in a day for a cough.

C. Perkins

Cathartic Pills.

Ry- Aloes - - - - - - ℥ ii Gambass - - - ℥ iiſs Crem. tart. - - - ℥ iiſs Sal. [N]it - - - - ℥ ii

Symp. Syr. q.s.

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Remedy for Sprains

Ry - [Bark] allum in pulv. ℥ i Camp. [crussed] small - ℥ ii Vol. sprt. sal. ammoni - ℥ ſs [Es]. lemon - - - ℥ ſs

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Hooping Cough. -

Ry. Sal. tart. ※ - - - - - - ℈ i Cockineal - - - XV gr Extract Glyz - - - - qs. aqua - - - - ¹/₂ pint

two table spoonfuls dose

※ or [carbonate] of potash

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Rhuematic Application

Ry. - Ol. Terebinth. Murias Ammoni aa ℥ iiii triturate. Rub this on the pained part till a burning sensation is produced. Then cover the part with warm flannel. smal blisters will arise. - - - - N. Smith

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For Cholera. Morbus

Ry - mutton suet, cleared from its fibres. - ℥ iiii Simmer this in a quart of new milk till reducd to one pint. dose one table spoonful as occasion may require.