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Home Medical and Vet Remedies, as Recommended by 19th and 20th century Doctors and Vets! |
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Home Medical and Vet Remedies, as Recommended by 19th and 20th century Doctors and Vets! |
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Heartburn.The water-brash can often be relieved by fifteen or twenty grains of the subnitrate of bismuth; yet, in most cases, this troublesome symptom will disappear only after the patient's gen eral condition has been much improved. The hiccough, an occa sional symptom, often disappears under the use of hydrate of chloral, in doses of ten to fifteen grains three times daily. One of the most important objects to be obtained by medicine is the improvement of the patient's general condition by the use of tonics. This is especially valuable if the dyspepsia be the result, not of errors in diet, but out of nervous exhaustion. One of the best formulæ for this purpose, is as follows : Fowler's solution of arsenic,- One drachm. Sulphate of quinine, - One drachm. Tincture of nux vomica, - One ounce. Wine of pepsin,- Three ounces. Take half a teaspoonful after meals. In these cases it is well for the patient to take five or six drops of the dilute muriatic acid just before eating. If the patient be quite pallid or anætnic, benefit may be derived from the following prescription : Sulphate of quinine,- Forty grains. Arsenious acid, - One-third of a grain. Extract of nux vomica, - Eight grains. Reduced iron, - Twenty grains. Mix, and make into twenty-four pills. Take one before meals. In order to afford some assistance in the selection of diet for dyspeptic patients, the following table, adapted from Hartshorne, is added:
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