420 MATERIA MEDICA 



ANODYNE CARMINATIVE TINCTURE. 



No. 3. Best Turkey opium 1 oz. 



Cloves, bruised 2 oz. 



Jamaica ginger, bruised 3 oz. 



Old Cognac brandy 1 quart. 



Keep them together in a well-corked bottle three or four weeks, 

 frequently shaking it. The dose, two or three ounces in 

 water- 



The ball may be mixed with warm ale if the form of a drench 

 be preferred to that of a ball, and either of the receipts will be 

 found a good remedy for the flatulent or spasmodic colic. In 

 the anodyne draught, warm beer may be substituted for water. 

 It should be recollected that when the colic is attended with cos- 

 tiveness, clysters and oily and saline laxatives are necessary, either 

 in addition to the anodyne, or after the anodyne is exhibited. 

 Essence of peppermint consists of the essential oil of peppermint 

 dissolved in spirit of wine : one part of the former to three of 

 the latter. (See Essence and Mint.) Anodynes are some- 

 times exhibited in the form of a clyster, as In locked-jaw, when 

 no medicine can be given by the mouth, which often happens In 

 bad cases ; it is then necessary to employ about a double dose, or 

 rather more. (See Locked Jaw ; see also Clysters.) Anodyne 

 fomentations are prescribed occasionally, which consists chiefly 

 of a decoction of white poppy-heads. See Fomentations. 



ANTHELMINTICS are medicines that destroy worms, or 

 expel them from the Intestines. The mercurial purgatives are 

 generally considered the most effectual anthelmintics. 



A variety of vegetables have been thought to possess this 

 quality, but I believe without foundation : among these are box, 

 rue, savin, and wormwood, ^thiop's mineral, antimony, sul- 

 phur, and tin, have also been considered as antlielmintics. I 

 believe tin has not been fairly tried : and as it Is an efficacious 

 anthelmintic In dogs, it may probably be found useful in horses. 

 Of all the mercurial preparations, calomel is by far the best for 

 this purpose, and may be given with aloes, soap, and some 

 aromatic oil, with a little ginger. Many prefer giving the 

 calomel at night, and the purgative the following morning. 

 Aloes is a good anthelmintic. A saline substance was some 

 time ago introduced from India, as a remedy for that species of 

 worm termed botts. It seems to be composed of common salt 

 and liver of sulphur, but does not appear to deserve the high 

 character that was given of It ; though, like salt or brine, it may 

 sometimes have been found an effectual anthelmintic. 



It has been supjwsed, that worms are sometimes generated in 

 consequence of debility in the digestive organs. Tonics have 



