What is "calomel"

Usage examples of "calomel".

I have been in relation successively with the English and American evacuant and alterative practice, in which calomel and antimony figured so largely that, as you may see in Dr.

The best that could be arranged for the President were a small bedroom and sitting room in a boardinghouse kept by two maiden sisters named Barnes, one of whom provided the ailing Adams with a down comforter, while the other dosed him with a purgative of rhubarb and calomel.

How long would it have taken small doses of calomel and rhubarb to save as many children?

American eagle screams with delight to see three drachms of calomel given at a single mouthful?

The treatment he received was, I have no doubt, judicious, but the quantity of calomel prescribed was enormous.

But I can vouch, upon my own experience, that no similar imputation lies against the gentlemen who prescribe large quantities of calomel in America.

An additional ounce of calomel hardly sufficed to neutralize the effect of these raw-head and bloody-bones adventures.

Will you think I am disrespectful if I ask whether, even in Massachusetts, a dose of calomel is not sometimes given by a physician on the same principle as that upon which a landlord occasionally prescribes bacon and eggs,--because he cannot think of anything else quite so handy?

Starbuck, had the face to offer that calomel and jalap to Queequeg, there, this instant off the whale.

I am told by the doctor that calomel or castor-oil is good for me, I may naturally ask what is calomel, and what is castor-oil.

The after quarters contained one latrine, unbearably foul, and if each missionary occupied it for only fifteen minutes at a time, which was not excessive in their condition, five and a half hours were automatically consumed, and the day was half spent with no time allocated for emergency cases on the part of those who in extreme desperation had taken a master dose or ipecac, rhubarb, calomel and castor oil, all together.

And there was no way his subject could elude him in his endless disguises as a poor camel driver or a rich Damascus merchant, a harmless haggler over pimpernel or a desert collector of sorrel and similar spring herbage, an obsessed dervish given to trances and an inscrutable hakim or healer, dispensing quinine and calomel and cinnamon water, a few grains of rhubarb and one of laudanum.

For the first few days Fox was in serious discomfort, sometimes in considerable pain, for the rhubarb, hiera picra and calomel worked powerfully.

So the dreadfully constipated missionaries took ipecac and rhubarb and calomel and castor oil.

There was no doctor and only the slightest medication: calomel for indigestion, sassafras tea for fever.