British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, Vol. 48 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, Vol. 48 As to the hook thus sent forth, it is a model of care and neatness and industry. It is thoughtfully compiled, splendidly printed and choicely bound. It contains four hundred and eighty-four pages and three times that number of prescriptions. It is divided in such manner that all the diseases of the community are classified, while the prescriptions for the cure of each class of disease are placed under their proper heads. The prescriptions are from the pens of none but the elite of physic; if the authors of them were dead or had retired from practice when the book was written, their names arc added; if they were living, their names are omitted, "to avoid giving offence." The favorite recipes of princely Richard Mead, Sir Janies Millard, Huxham, Sir Clifton Winter-iugham, Sir E. Halse, Sir E. Barry, and of many others, are here in correct form. We think at once, as we look at this book, how easy it must have been to prescribe in 1777. We have a disease to treat; we know the name of the disease, and before us there is the remedy for the disease fresh from the most learned of hands. When we turn to our book and ask what the medical elite of the metropolis prescribed for the benefit of mankind, and for the imitation of their less fortunate brethren of the provinces, we note singularly and specially one great fact, that their formulas arc all based on the most absolute of empirical principles. We notice further that the medicines prescribed arc in nine cases out of ten simples of simples. There are, it is true, a few active medicines, to wit, opium, antimony, ammonia, elateriurn, mercury, lead, sulphuric acid, jalap, rhubarb, lemon juice, and one or two other agents more or less active, but none of those really useful medicines, as we now consider them, take prominent place; prominence is rather given to carminatives and comparatively inert medicines - cardiac confection, red coral, chalk julep, stomachic tincture, musk, dragon´s blood, Castile soap, oil of juniper, wormwood, James´s powder, saffron, balsam of Tolu, syrup of marsh-mallow, cascarilla, ginger, gum ammoniaeum, mace, camphor, and aqua pura; these clearly were the stock-in-trade, par excellence, of the apothecary to the Princess Amelia, and friend of the leading physicians of London, one hundred years ago. For the different classes of diseases the prescriptions are strangely varied, no principle of action being anywhere indicated. For consumptions, spermaceti, made up with yelk of egg, with nitre, volatile aromatic spirit, and cinnamon water, forms one mixture intended for cough; viper broth, to be taken about midday, in four ounce doses, is another remedy; antimonial wine, with orange, cardamoms and white wine, is a third prescription, from the authority of Dr. James; and decoction of Peruvian bark with balsam of Tolu and vitriolic elixir forms a fourth combination. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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