514 XIV. APPARATUS AND CHESTS. 



— alum 8 oz. — Peruvian bark 4lb. — balsam Copaibse 8 oz. — can- 

 tharides 8 oz. — calomel 1 oz. — camphire 3 oz. [6 oz.]— catechu 

 lib., [2 lb.] — camomile flowers lib. — elixir of vitriol 8 oz.— pare- 

 goric elixir 8 oz. — extr. cathart. half an oz. — flowers of sulphur 

 lib. — flowers of zinc 1 oz. — gamboge 1 oz. — gum ammoniac 4 oz. 

 — gum Arabic 8 oz. — ipecacuana 4 oz. — iron filings ppd. 21b. — 

 jalap 4 oz. — linseed 2lb. — liquorice 8 oz. — magnesia alba 4 oz. — 

 mezereon 4 oz. — myrrh 4 oz. — sal nitri 4 oz. — spirit of nitre 4 oz. 

 — opium 4 oz. — oil of anise seed 2 oz. — olive oil 4 pints — oil of 

 peppermint 1 oz. — oil of turpentine lib. — yellow basilicon lib. — 

 simple cerate lib. — mercurial ointment 4 oz. — gum plaster 8 oz. 

 — mercurial plaster 4 oz. — sumach 2 oz. — sal ammoniac 4 oz. — 

 Glauber's salt lOlb. — kali ppd. 8 oz. — sal Martis 2 oz. — senna 

 4oz. — snake root 4 oz. — spirit of sal ammoniac 6 oz. — ammonise 

 acetas 2 pints — double distilled lavander water 4 oz. — Hoffmann's 

 anodyne liquor 4oz. — sweet spirit of nitre 4 oz. — emetic tartar half 

 an oz. — rhubarb 4 oz. — Strasburgh turpentine 4oz. — vinegar 2gall. 

 — extractum Saturni 8 oz. — white vitriol 2 oz. — blue vitriol 4 oz. 

 — verdigris 8 oz. — red precipitate 4 oz. — corrosive sublimate half 

 an oz. 



2. Necessaries. — 1 large clyster syringe, 1 small ditto, 6 for 

 injections, 4 lancets, 1 tooth instrument, 3 or 4 eye cups, 1 doz. 

 bougies in sorts, 3 doz. phials with corks, 3 doz. pillboxes, 1 set of 

 scales and weights, lint and tow. 



Medicine chests for small ships, or families in the country. — These 

 are usually made up to some book of directions, of which three are 

 in general use in London, viz. — 1. A Companion to the Medicine 

 Chest, by Savory, which, being well written, is adapted for chests- 

 ordered by persons of education, for whose diseases also the medi- 

 cines are selected. It were to be wished that the cabinet-makers 

 would adapt the bottles, &c. to this book. By a singular error, 

 the words laudanum and opium are throughout used as synony- 

 mous to each other, while at the same time the tincture of opium 

 is probably meant by both. — 2. Directions for the Use, &c. 

 published by Shaw, the druggists' printer. These directions and 

 medicines are principally intended for the diseases of the lower 

 classes, hence this is the book by which druggists generally make 

 up medicine chests for small ships which do not carry a surgeon, 

 unless they have books of their own, as is the case with most of 

 the druggists in sea ports, or the eastern part of London, because 

 Shaw's Directions require the generality of the medicines ordered 

 to be made up when wanted from the different simple articles 

 contained in the chest, whereas sea commanders prefer a chest of 

 medicines ready prepared for use, and which at most require only 

 to be weighed or measured, and even that operation not to require 

 great accuracy, previous to their exhibition. — Among the many 

 books of this kind I have found in the chests brought to me to 



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