Directions for Mariners on Voyages in Hot and Cold Climates; How to Treat the Sick, and to Use the Medicine Contained in the Che

Directions for Mariners on Voyages in Hot and Cold Climates; How to Treat the Sick, and to Use the Medicine Contained in the Chest.

Author: Lot Tripp

Year: 1838

Lot Tripp has the title "Practitioner of Physic and Surgery" on the inside title page. Also on the inside title page: "Said boxes are put up in good order by Silas Carle & Nephew, Druggists, 199 Water Street, corner of Fulton Street, where masters and owners of vessels may be supplied on reasonable terms. Contents are ordered by the items in the medicine chest, then with notes and discussions. Contents of the medicine chest (numbered): 1. Vomits 2. Salts 3. Castor oil 4. Rhubarb 5. Calomel and jalap 6. Mercurial pills 7. Cream of tartar 8. Flour of sulphur 9. Fever powder (Nitre and cream tartar) 10. Alum 11. Blue vitriol 12. Laudanum 13. Camphor in spirits 14. Spirits of turpentine 15. Elixir vitriol 16. Traumatic balsam 17. Peruvian bark 18. Tincture of catechu and spirits of lavender 19. Basilicon 20. Blistering salve 21. Mercurial ointment 22. Turner's cerate 23. Diachylon plaster 24. Essence of peppermint 25. Marsh-mallow ointment 26. Eye water 27. Chamomile 28. Spirits of nitre 29. Ingredients for bitters 30. Venereal injections (sulphate zinc) 31. Venereal drops (corrosive sublimate & alcohol) 32. Paregoric 33. Aromatic powder for the cholic 34. Extract of lead 35. Red preci