Alterative Medicines - Victorian Health and Medicine

| # Alterative Medicines - Victorian Health and Medicine ## From 'The Dictionary of Daily Wants' - 1858-1859 ALTERATIVE MEDICINES are those which re-establish the health, and gradually restore the decayed functions of the system, without producing perspiration, purging, or other sensible evacuations. They are, in fact, medical remedies assuming the mildest form for the purpose of assisting and cooperating with nature. Alterative Powder.- Recipe: Dover's powder, fifteen grains; mercury with chalk, twelve grains; divide into six powders, and take one every night. The quantities of the ingredients specified are for a grown-up person; for a youth under twenty they should be one-half less, and for a child under ten three-quarters less. See BLUE PILL, CALOMEL, COD-LIVER OIL, GREY POWDER, SARSA-PARILLA, &C. > | The Victorian Hospital by Lavinia Mitton Short perspective on Victorian medical care More information and prices from: - British pounds - US dollars - Australian Dollars - Canadian dollars - Euros - Euros |

Alterative - Victorian Medicine

Alterative Medicines - Victorian Health and Medicine

From 'The Dictionary of Daily Wants' - 1858-1859

ALTERATIVE MEDICINES are those which re-establish the health, and gradually restore the decayed functions of the system, without producing perspiration, purging, or other sensible evacuations. They are, in fact, medical remedies assuming the mildest form for the purpose of assisting and cooperating with nature.

Alterative Powder.- Recipe: Dover's powder, fifteen grains; mercury with chalk, twelve grains; divide into six powders, and take one every night. The quantities of the ingredients specified are for a grown-up person; for a youth under twenty they should be one-half less, and for a child under ten three-quarters less. See BLUE PILL, CALOMEL, COD-LIVER OIL, GREY POWDER, SARSA-PARILLA, &C.

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