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Materia Medica

Sialagogues

use a weak solution of corosive Sublimate, limewater, but it is difficult
even to employ this without prjudicial effects. I employ the following
Injection

Rx
Calomel grs viij vel X [8 or 10 grains]
Gum Arabic Ʒij [2 drams]
Opium grs ij [2 grains]
Aq. Font ℥viij [8 ounces]

M. f. and use a syringe full, five, or six times a day.

Itch. Many medicines have been employ’d but some of the
mercurial preparations are the most usefull, among these are the
Unj. Citrinum and it is less filthy than the mercurial ointment,
sometimes however a solution of the muriate of mercury in water is employ’d
the proportions are about 12 grs [grains] of the former to a pint of the latter, this
forms a most excellent wash.

Tenia Capitis. A solution of
the sublimate in water is beneficially employ’d as also the
Unjentum Hydrargyri Nitrate, the latter often succeeds when the other means have
failed. I used the Unjentum Citrinum in a verry obstinate case in the
Pennsylvania Hospital and affected a cure, but the patient took also small
doses of the Galiga Virginiana this I have frequently given alone with
great advantage, that peculiar disease produced by Rhus Radius or
Poison Vine is verry distressing to the patient occasioning a verry
disagreeable itching and swelling of the scotum [scrotum], in women the Pudenda is effected
in the same manner, in 1779 I discovered that mercury was a never
failing remidy, I dissolved from grs iv to vi [4 to 6 grains] of oxy. muriate of mercury