Instructions on the uses, doses, and manner of applying the different medicines : contained in the family chest / sold by Richard Stringer, Chemist and Druggist to His Majesty.

  • Stringer, Richard (Chemist and Druggist)
Date:
[between 1810 and 1819?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Instructions on the uses, doses, and manner of applying the different medicines : contained in the family chest / sold by Richard Stringer, Chemist and Druggist to His Majesty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Powder of Rhubarb. Rhubarb is found in small quantities, to strengthen the stomach and create an appetite, and in larger doses to be a very safe and efficacious purgative. The dose to answer the > former purposes is five grains, and that should be taken every day, an hour before dinner; for the latter purpose, the dose is thirty grains, which may be taken at bed-time, or early in the morning; plain water is a proper vehicle to take it in; if a tea spoonful of brandy be first mixed with the powder it will unite more easily and be more grateful to the stomach. Magnesia For any acidity on the stomach, producing wind and heart¬ burn, is a speedy and certain remedy; as children from the nature of their food, are particularly subject to these com¬ plaints, no medicine is so generally useful to them as magnesia: an adult should take a desert spoonful; if costive, five, eight, or ten grains of rhubarb may be added; in all cases water is proper to mix it in. Powder of Barb: The bark must be given in substance; in mortification and in agues, a tea spoonful is a dose; in the former case it should be given as often as the stomach will admit it, in the latter it should be taken every three hours, during the absence of the fit. It may be mixed in milk, water, or wine.