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CONTENTS OF 



GRIFFITH'S UNIVERSAL FORMULARY. 



PREFACE. 

 INTRODUCTION. 



Weights and Measures. 

 Weights of the United States and Great Britain. 

 Foreign Weights. 

 Measures. 

 Specific Gravity. 



Temperatures for certain Pharmaceutical Ope- 

 rations. 

 Hydrometrical Equivalents. 

 Specific Gravities of some of the Preparations 



of the Pharmacopoeias. 

 Relation between different Thermometrical 



Scales. 

 Explanation of principal Abbreviations used in 



Formulae. 

 Vocabulary of Words employed in Prescriptions. 

 Observations on the Management ofthe sick Room 

 Ventilation ofthe sick Room. 

 Temperature ofthe Sick Room. 

 Cleanliness in the Sick Room. 

 Quiet in the Sick Room. 



Examination and Preservation of the Excretions. 

 Administration of Medicine. 

 Furniture of a Sick Room. 

 Proper use of Utensils for Evacuations. 

 Doses of Medicines. 

 Age. 

 Sex. 



Temperament. 

 Idiosyncrasy. 

 Habit. 



State of the System. 

 Time of day. 



Intervals between Doses. 

 Rules for Administration of Medicines. 

 Acids. 

 Antacids. 



Anlilithics and Lithontriptics. 

 Antispasmodics. 

 Anthelmintics. 

 Cathartics. 

 Enemata. 

 Suppositories. 

 Demulcents or Emollients. 

 Diaphoretics. 

 Diluents. 

 Diuretics. 

 Emetics. 

 Emmenagogues. 

 Epispastics. 

 Errhines. 

 Escharotics. 

 Expectorants. 

 Narcotics. 

 Refrigerants. 

 Sedatives. 

 Sialagogues. 

 Stimulants. 

 Tonics. 

 Management of Convalescence and Relapses. 

 DIETETIC PREPARATIONS NOT INCLUDED 

 AMONG THE PREVIOUS PRESCRIPTIONS. 

 LIST OF IMCOMPATIBLES 



POSOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE MOST IM- 

 PORTANT MEDICINES. 

 The Formulary proper occupies between three and four hundred pages, double columns. 

 From Prof. W. T. Wilson, of Baltimore. 

 Gentlemen.— On carefully looking over the volume, I am satisfied that it will fill up a place occupied by 

 no previous publication. Besides the Formulary proper, it embraces such a variety of other and necessary 

 matter, nowhere else contained within the compass of a single volume — for instance, all the minor details 

 connected with compounding, prescribing and administering medicines, the general management ofthe sick 

 room, dietetic and officinal preparations : the subject of baths, blood-letting, poisons, &c, together with copi- 

 ous indices, as must, make it an indispensable hand-book to the junior practitioner, and a valuable addition 

 to the library, or rather table, (for it is a book not only to be read, but used,) of every practising physician. 



TABLE OF PHARMACEUTICAL NAMES 



WHICH DIFFER IN THE U. STATES 



AND BRITISH PHARMACOPOEIAS. 

 OFFICINAL PREPARATIONS AND DIREC- 

 TIONS. 

 Internal Remedies. 

 Powders. 

 Pills and Boluses. 

 Extracts. 



Confections, Conserves, Electuaries. 

 Pulps. 

 Syrups. 



Mellites or Honeys. 

 Infusions. 

 Decoctions. 

 Tinctures. 

 Wines. 

 Vinegars. 

 Mixtures. 

 Medicated Waters. 

 Distilled, Essential, or Volatile Oils. 

 Fixed Oils and Fats. 

 Alkaloids. 

 Spirits. 



Troches or Lozenges. 

 Inhalations. 

 External Remedies. 

 Baths. 



Cold Bath. 



Cool Bath. 



Temperate Bath. 



Tepid Bath. 



Warm Bath. 



Hot Bath. 



Shower Bath. 



Local Baths. 



Vapor Bath. 



Warm Air Bath. 



Douches. ,^ 



Medicated Baths. 



Affusion. 



Sponging. 

 Fomentations. 

 Cataplasms, or Poultices. 

 Lotions, Liniments, Embrocations, 

 Vesicatories, or Blisters. 

 Issues. 

 Selons. 

 Ointments. 

 Cerates. 

 Plasters. 

 Fumigations. 

 Blood-letting. 

 General Blood-Letting. 



Venesection. 



Arteriotomy. 

 Topical Blood-Letting. 



Cupping. 



Leeching. 



Scarifications. 

 POISONS 



INDEX OF DISEASES AND THEIR REMEDIES. 

 INDEX OF PHARMACEUTICAL AND BOTANI- 

 CAL NAMES 

 GENERAL INDEX. 



ELLIS'S MEDICAL FORMULARY.— Improved Edition. 



THE MEDICAL~FORMULARY: 



being a collection of prescriptions, derived from the writings and practice of many of the most 



eminent physicians of america and europe. 

 To which is added an Appendix, containing the usual Dietetic Preparations and Antidotes for Poisons. 



THE WHOLE ACCOMPANIED WITH A FEW BRIEF PHARMACEUTIC AND MEDICAL OBSERVATIONS. 



BY BENJAMIN ELLIS, M. D. 



NINTH EDITION, CORRECTED AND EXTENDED, BY SAMUEL GEORGE MORTON, M. D. 



In one neat octavo volume of 268 pages. 



