A practical compendium of the materia medica, adapted to the treatment of the diseases of infancy and childhood : with numerous prescriptions / by Alexander Ure.

  • Ure, Alexander.
Date:
1839
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Credit: A practical compendium of the materia medica, adapted to the treatment of the diseases of infancy and childhood : with numerous prescriptions / by Alexander Ure. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    applied to scrofulous sores and porrigo. If the eruption be humid, it is simply sprinkled over; if dry, it is rubbed on in the form of ointment. Here it probably acts merely as a mecha- nical irritant. 92. R Carbonis Ligni, 3j. Adipis, 3vj. M. ft. Unguentum. 93. R Pulv. Rhei. — Carb., aa 3iss. M. ft. Pulvis. For insper sion. CASCARILLA. The bark of the Croton Cascarilla is stomachic and tonic; it checks immoderate secretion from the mucous membrane of the alimentary canal, when that depends on atony and relaxation. If inferior in tonic energy to cin- chona, it is nevertheless less oppressive to the stomach, and therefore better adapted for children whose organs of digestion are feeble and irritable. Inflammatory or constipated conditions of the bowels forbid its use. Cascarilla is serviceable in flatu- lent colic; in the gangrenous thrushes of children; in asthenic fevers, when the powers of assimilation are sunk, the excita- bility of the nervous system augmented, and diarrhoea is present; in infantile remittents when they approach the intermittent type and seem caused by abdominal disorder, and the pre- parations of cinchona are inadmissible; in the chronic and long protracted diarrhoea of scrofulous debilitated children in union with deficient tone, and morbid sensibility of the bowels; and in that state of languor and emaciation, accompanied with tumid tense abdomen, depending on obstruction of the mesenteric glands. In remittents after evacuations along with liq. acet. amm. Its aromatic qualities render it an excellent adjunct to cinchona. Dose and form of exhibition. Cascarilla may be given in powder made into an electuary with aromatic confection and syrup of ginger to the amount of 5, 30, or 15 grains, two or three times a day; it may be also exhibited in the form of decoction or of tincture; of the former, a tablespoonful may be ordered, of the latter from 20 to 40 drops.