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Materia Medica

Tonics

stimulating = I do not use injections near as strong as Bell,
and Hunter, and cannot recommend them that are so strong.
Powerfull injections often produce hernia Humoralis. I would
recomend and prefer this formula

Rx
Verdigris Ʒi [1 dram]
Sal. Ammoniac Ʒiiij [4 drams]
Aqua Font X ℥ [10 ounces]

use it as an injection.

Vitriol Coerul. This has been considered
as a sulphate of copper but it is a super sulphate. It has been used
with advantage in intermittants the dose should be from ¼ of a grain
to 1 grain, three or four times a day as the stomach can bare it.
Dr Dan recommends it highly, in the year 1808 I used it in the
Pennsylvania Hospital in intermittant fevers when all other
medicines had failed. Where it produced nausea I found it better.
I have never used it hemorrhagy except those from the lungs
which I shall speak of hereafter. Dr Spaulding who attended
lectures here last winter informed me that in Uterine
hemorrhage he had used it with great advantage in such doses as would
create nausea. Dr Monroe used it with success in two cases
of intermittants that had resisted every other medicine, he
used it in the form of pills

Rx
Vitriol Coerul grs.iv. [4 grains]
Extract Cort. Peruvianus grs.XXX. [30 grains]
M. Fit. Bol. No 16. Each of those