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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    typhoid type, as putrid scarlatina, and small-pox; here, as its action may not be sufficiently prompt, it had best be com- bined or alternated with ammonia, musk, or camphor ; but if a saburral state of the first passages coexist, as is frequently the case in scarlatina, great caution is to be observed in its exhibition, since it may give rise to fatal constipation or diarrhoea: in chronic cachexia?, depending on constitutional debility, as struma, in union with deobstruent remedies, as rhubarb and certain neutral salts; in hydropic affections, depending on general atony of the organism, combined with bitartrate or acetate of potash, unless there be disposition to hydrothorax; in the advanced stage of hooping-cough, when the disease is chronic, the paroxysms few and scarcely convulsive, the secretion very copious, the strength and flesh progressively decreasing,combined with antispasmodics, bitters, and aromatics; and in chronic affection of the digestive organs, when the appetite is impaired, the pulse languid, with relaxed solids, and incapability of exertion. Dose andform of exhibition. According to Dr. A.T. Thomson, the pharmaceutical preparations of pale bark should always be made with water acidulated with sulphuric acid,which, changing the kinate of cinchonia to a sulphate, renders the cinchonia infinitely more soluble. The dose of the powder is from 5 to 15 grains twice a day. It may be taken at first in the effer- vescing saline draughts. Of an infusion prepared with Jss. in Jvj. of water, a tablespoonful may be given about an hour before each repast, to improve the appetite; as an antiperio- dical, at repeated short intervals, during the whole period of the intermission. Gblis recommends fresh milk as an excellent vehicle for the decoction of cinchona, in the proportion of 3 or 4 parts of the former to one of the latter, sweetened with sugar. Underwood advises in thrush, when the eruption is of a dark colour, and the infant weak and delicate, to exhibit, after the bowels have been cleansed, the decoction of cinchona in union with aromatic confection and tincture of serpentary. In the convalescent stage of hooping-cough, the cold aqueous infusion, made by digesting an ounce of cinchona in a quart of cold water for twenty-four hours, given in the dose of a tea- cupful two or three times a day, has been found beneficial with the addition of 5 drops of the compound tincture of camphor to each dose. The powdered cinchona, mixed with three parts of gum E