Dartmouth Medical Student Notebooks

Sialagogues ℞. [Caluned] Mercury gr i. Opium ---- 1/3 gr. Essential oil of cloves one drop, make into a pill to be taken every night in unusual cases. After a week if the mouth be notit may, be seperated morning + evening + after the patient has been accustomed to the med-cine + it is found not to fall on the mouth it may be measured to two pills in the evening + one in the morning. The proportion of opium may be measured to a grain or more according to [uruemetance]. - or ℞. Calomil gr. 30, conserve of roses q.s. to make 30 pills. dose one every day, or half a pill 3 times a day till the mouth be affected in [Manunis], + a whole pill [?] times a day in confirmed [lives],

An Expectorant.- ℞. Gm. myrrh ʒſs . Coap sugar ℥ſs. cut togeth -er into a powder. Dose a teaspoonful 3 or 4 times a day in any connriy convienient while. ---------- Iron Elutieary ℞. |Carbon. Ferri -- |℥ i |Decort. Peru. -- |ʒ ii to which add consenor of roses q.s. (Gorham)

Godfryer Cordial. ℞. Molasses tb 3. oz 6, aqua fura tb5. Alkohol, tb 1, oz 1, dr 2. - Lard. ℥i Ol. Sassafras. ℈iſs . Boil the water + molasses half one hour, Dissolve the oil in the alkohol + mix.

Emeties. ℞. Emet. Tart. gr.5. [minous] + tract of Fallap gr3. Loaf Sugar ℈i - mix to be given in warm bur. This is a strong vomit in cases of surfeit. (Gaubius)

Another ℞. Powdered root of the Asarium dr.i. This is a moderate and manageble emetis, suitable for many of the purpos-es of Ipecac. - Cullen.

Another ℞. Vit. Album gr 25. Inspressated juice of the elder berry, q.s. make a bober to be washed down with cammomile tea. (Gaubius)

Another ℞. Of Mustard as prepared for the table one teaspoonful, stir it in a tea cup full of warm water + let it be swallow -ed for a dose, [lessinting] its operation afterwards by seperated dilution.- (Cullen.)

Cathartic in Phrenitis, ℞. Falap ʒi Calomul ℥ſs . Crem Tart ʒii mix and divide into 3 parts, one to be given every two hours till they begin to operate, which is to be promoted by this gruel. (Currie)

Or ℞. ℥i Sal. Glaub. Senna ℥ſs , infused in boiling water, then dissolve the salts with the addition one grain of Tart. Emit. One half may at first be taken. + half of the remainder every two hours + give an opiate after the operation. - (Currie) When the pulse is nearly as low as in health, + the shin hot + dry, give the following. ℞. Emit. Tart griii. Sal. Nitric. ʒiii mix + divide into 12 parts, + give one every 2,3 or 4 hours accord-ing to the violence of the symtoms, dissolved in cold water.

Abernathy's Prescription, in local diseases, attended with a disturbed state of the first passages. ℞. Infus. Gent. Com. ℥i Infus. Senna ʒii tinct Cardamom Com. ʒi mix for a dose and taken to produce one stool daily. Five grains of Rhei is taken daily one hour before dinner and a pill containing one grain of Caloml every second night. - -

The following is one of the best tonics, and as-tringents for the diarrhoea, which sometimes succeeds [dyenany]. ℞. |Columbo Jule. ℥ſs. Galleu Jule. ʒii |Cardamom seeds ʒii. Proof Brandy tbi. Infuse several days, and from two tea-spoonfuls to a table spoonful taken three or four times a day, diluted with water. (Currie)

Palpitatio ℞. Sulphas Zinc gr 10. Lig. Luassia ʒi infuse in half pound of water. - Dose half a wine glaſs Thrice a day. (Smith

Electuary ℞. Rubig. Ferri ʒii Pule. Cort. Peru. ℥i Pule Aromat ʒi1/2 Syr. Cort. Aurat. q.s. Mix, dose the size of a nut,- -meg. twice a day.

Elix. Asthmatic ℞. |Honey ---- |℥iiii |Ext. Glycyrhiza |i |Flos. Benzoin |ʒſs |Gm. Opii |ʒſs | - Camph |℈ii |Ol. Anis . .|ʒſs |Sal. Tart |ʒii Proof Spirit one quart.

℞. Cayenne Pepper two tablespoonfuls common salt one tea spoonful. Infuse in a half a pint of Boiling water, adding themto the same quantity of boil hot vinegar. After standing half an hour, strain through a fine cloth, + give two table spoonfuls at a time every half hour in Gynamha Maligna, low typhoide.

Rubefaiunt Linamant ℞. Ol. Olio. ℥iii Ol. Terebinth ℥i Acid Sulph. gutt. 12. Mix.

Cataplasma Favinae ℞. Favinae Scealis tbi Fermenti Vetiris acris ℥iiii Natri Muriati ℥ii. Mix. - + apply in rheumatism to the joints + extremities when they swell very much + are painful.

+ + Lime Poultice ℞. Zurich Lime (air starched) one part. Oat meal two parts Hogs lard q.s. to form a poultice, to be applied to indolent rheu-matic swellings ac. every night + removed in the morning.