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Show 430 OFFICINAL GUAIAGUM. even table-spoonful, taken every morning and ‘evening, in any convenient vehicle, particularly in milk, has proved of singular service. Compound Decoction or GuaracuM, COMMONLY CALLED Decoction or tHe Woops. (Decoctum Guaiaci Compositum, vulgo Decoctum Lignorum. E.) OFFICINAL k.. 3. Take of guaiacum (gumresin), in powder, ; ———— soap, equal parts - - - drachm1, ——— essential oil of juniper berry, drops Makeinto twenty-eight pills: take two four times aday. is an admirable remedy in rheumatisin. R.. 4. Takeof guaiacum (gum resin), ——— decoction of barley - Take of guaiacumraspings, three ounces; raisins, stoned, two ounces; sassafras root, sliced, liguorice root, bruised, each one ounce; ——. water, ten pounds: ’ Boil the guaiacum and raisins with the water, overa gentle fire, to the consumption of onehalf, adding, towards the end, the sassafras and liquorice, and strain the decoction, without expression. This decoction is of use in some rheumatic and cutancous af. fections. It may be taken byitself, to the quantity of a quarter ofa pint, twice or thrice a day, or used ag-anassistant in a course of mercurial or antimonial alteratives ; the patient in either case keeping warm, in order to promote the operation of the medicine. Comrounn Lime Warr. (Aqua Calcis Composita. D ) Take of guaiacum wood, in shavings, half a pound ; liquorice root, sliced and bruised, an ounce; sassafras bark, bruised, half an ounce; coriander seeds, three drachms ; lime water, six pints: Maccrate, without heat, for two days, and filter. This, though an infusion, may be considered as an impror ement of the compound decoction of guaiacum, as the lime water cannot fail to be decomposed during the preparation. PRESCRIPTIONS, 2 snaiae ‘ R. $ 1. "Tale Take of guaia cum (gum resin) , in powder, sc:uple 1, conserve of hips, as muchas is sufficient: Make into a bolus, to be taken twice a day, for rheumatism. R.. 2. Take of guaiacum (gumresin), scammony, equal parts, grains 15, syrup of ginger, as muchas is sufficient : Make into a bolus, to be taken “arly in the morning in rheumatism. GUAIACUM, ——-— syrup of Tolu - Make into a draught, to be taken twice - scruple ounce 1, 14, drachm 1: 4: This a day, drinking after it a cup of warm barley water: for rheumatism. R.. 5. Takeoftincture of guaiacum ~- drachms 3, cinnamon water, peppermint water, equal parts, drachms 6: Make into a draught, to be taken at twelve and seven every day. Dr. Cullen, speaking of the tincture, says, that ‘¢ several physicians have apprehended mischief from the use of the guaiacum in a spirituous tincture, and I amcertain that it sometimes happens. It is therefore that in imitation of the very respectable Berger, of Copenhagen, [ avoid the spirituous tincture of guaiacum, and employ almost only the diffusion of it in water. In preparing this, having first with an equal part of hard sugar reduced the guaiacum to a fine powder, I apply some portion of the yolk of egg, or of a mucilage of gum Arabic, and rubbing these together very carefully, I form an emulsion with water, or watery liquors, as may be thought proper. This preparation I give over night in such a quantity as may open the belly once next day, which will happen to different persons from doses containing fifteen to thirty grains of the guaiacum.”? M. M. 199. Berger’s formula is the following: R,.G. guaiaci 3 ss G. Arabici 3 ij. Bene trita solv, in aquz hyssopi vel alius distill. 3 ix. Add. sacchari 3 ss m. d. s. solutio, cujus duo cochlearia majora mane et vesperi capiantur, superbibito libra una decocti hordei vel avene. Vet. Acad. Handl. vol. i. p. 74. Theden recommends the guaiacum madeinto pills with soap of almonds, which is still more convenient. (Neue Bemerk. u Ersahr, a. d. Wundarzneyk. und Arz. p. 2. 204.) |