Colonial North America: Countway Library of Medicine

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Materia Medica

Cathartics

before the expected accession. I had a patient not long since for whoom every thing was try’d ineffectually she at last got hold of this prescription and cured herself. I have also lately used with much advantage in colic pains from spasm.

Rx Flor. Sulp. sublim Ʒi [1 dram] Cows Milk ℥ij [2 ounces]

M a draught to be given every 3 or 4 hours.

Cold. This when apply’d to the feet are often cathartic, and frequently succeed in relieving violent constipation when other means have fail'd, in cases of "Colica Pictonum" I found great advantage from water being apply’d, in evacuating the intestines, perhaps the practice is a nicer one than it at first would appear to be, it is improper when there is an inflamation of the intestines, certain kinds of gestation have a remarkable effect upon the intestinal canal, riding on horse back is verry of a cathartic but sometimes it induces costiveness. Linneus proved it to be an anthelmintic.