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Name: Category: Description: Jalap Treatment A powdered root of exogonium purga, used as a purgative and cathartic. Used to expel watery humours and used to treat dropsies and gonorrhoea. Jamaica pepper Treatment Pimento, pimenta, allspice. From the tropical tree Pimenta dioica. Added to a medicine to modify its action or counteract a disagreeable effect. In the case notes most commonly mixed with opium. James's Powder Treatment Fever remedy patented about 1746 by Dr Robert James and popularly used. Japonica Treatment An astringent used to treat looseness, diarrhoea and vomiting. An imported soluble gum derived from the wood of the tree Senegalia catechu. Originally called Terra Japonica, then later Succus Japonica. Jaundice Condition Yellowing of skin or eyes; sallow skin or complexion. Julap Treatment Sweet vehicle for various active ingredients to make palatable, usually using sugar syrup. Julep salts Treatment A sweet drink with sugar; a medicated sweet drink prescribed as a demulcent. Juniper Treatment A native shrub; the berries of which when distilled into a liquor, can be used as a remedy for intestinal ailments and urinary diseases in the elderly; a small infusion of the juice of the berry combined with a small quantity of gin is a medicine for dropsy. Juniperus Sabina Treatment Juniperus sabina 'tamariscifolia' (Tamarisk-leaved savin). Used as a analgesic, antipyretic and diuretic.
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- Jalap
Treatment
A powdered root of exogonium purga, used as a purgative and cathartic. Used to expel watery humours and used to treat dropsies and gonorrhoea.
- Jamaica pepper
Treatment
Pimento, pimenta, allspice. From the tropical tree Pimenta dioica. Added to a medicine to modify its action or counteract a disagreeable effect. In the case notes most commonly mixed with opium.
- James's Powder
Treatment
Fever remedy patented about 1746 by Dr Robert James and popularly used.
- Japonica
Treatment
An astringent used to treat looseness, diarrhoea and vomiting. An imported soluble gum derived from the wood of the tree Senegalia catechu. Originally called Terra Japonica, then later Succus Japonica.
- Jaundice
Condition
Yellowing of skin or eyes; sallow skin or complexion.
- Julap
Treatment
Sweet vehicle for various active ingredients to make palatable, usually using sugar syrup.
- Julep salts
Treatment
A sweet drink with sugar; a medicated sweet drink prescribed as a demulcent.
- Juniper
Treatment
A native shrub; the berries of which when distilled into a liquor, can be used as a remedy for intestinal ailments and urinary diseases in the elderly; a small infusion of the juice of the berry combined with a small quantity of gin is a medicine for dropsy.
- Juniperus Sabina
Treatment
Juniperus sabina 'tamariscifolia' (Tamarisk-leaved savin). Used as a analgesic, antipyretic and diuretic.
- Jalap
