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Description

A Compendium of Domestic Medicine, 1865

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Socotrine Aloes slow acting carthartic, gentle laxative. Also acts upon the uterine system in women, restoring/increasing menstrual discharge. Will also increase appetite and improve digestion.^[1]

treats: constipation, appetite loss, flatulence, obstructed menses, (12)

Aloe is included in "all those combinations which have enjoyed so much popular credit under the names of Antibilious and Dinner Pills." (12)

"Aloe is also contra-indicated in pregnancy during its advance stages, or at any stage when there is a likelihood of miscarriage." (12) can be used to induce abortion?

Rarely given to children on its own. Because of the bitter taste aloe is often combined with liquorice-root, "perhaps there are few medicines to the taste of which children sooner become reconciled." (12)

Aloes can be given as part of the treatment for poisoning from preparations of lead. (178)

Remedies Containing or to be used with Aloes

• The Aperient and Tonic Aloetic Pills (13): Contains Socotrine aloes. Two pills taken before dinner
• The Aloetic Pills (13):2-4 pills Contains extract of aloes. "taken in leucophlegmatic and strumous habits, when the alvine excretion is irregular"
• The Compound Cathertic Pills with Aloes (13): Contains Socotrine aloes. 2-3 pills taken sometimes at bed
• Dr. Ballie's Pils for Indigestion and Costiveness (13): Contain extract of aloes. One pill is to be taken an hour before dinner
• Assafoetida (23): can be combined with aloetics when treating hysterical complaints.
• Baume de Vie, or compound decoction of aloes (30): used to treat "hyterical and hypochondriacal affections," along with some spasmodic disorders. Does a lot of things to help out the stomach.
• Calomel (36): a purgative containing calomel used by Savory to illustrate the applications of calomel contains aloes in the form of Rufus' pill
• Extract (Aqueous) of Aloes (62): empties bowels
• Gum Myrrh (76): extract of aloes included in mixture used to "open the bowels in a suppression of the menses."
• Gum Scammony (77): combined with other purgatives, like aloes. Socotrine aloes included in a pill containing powdered scammony that is intended to be taken a bed time.
• Hiera Picra (Pulvis Aloes Cum Canellâ) (79): warm cathartic, mostly used by women "in whom the bowel are indolent."
• Pil Cochiae (Fr: Pilues d'Aloes et de Coloquinte) (116): Aperient given for "all common purposes."
• Pil Rufi (Fr: Pilules d'Aloes at Myrrhe) (117): "well calculated for delicate females, especially where there is uterine obstruction." Also used as stomachic and purgative. Most likely this is Rufu's Pills, both contain aloes and myrrh
• Rhubarb, Turkey (126): extract of aloes are part of Dyspeptic Pill, used to treat dyspepsia accompanied by constipation
• Tincture of Aloes (152): stomachic and purgative
• Tincture of Aloes, Compound (153): stronger than tincture of aloes
• Tincture of Aloes and Myrrh (153): laxative, tonic, emmenagogue. Treats green sickness and other ailments specific to women.
• Tincture of Aloes, Ethereal (153): used with spasms or irregular nervous action, same as earlier tinctures just has ether
• Tincture of Steel, Muriated. Tincture of Perchloride of Iron (163): combined with aloes and antispasmodics = emmenagogue as well as helping in "leucophlegmatic habits"
• Wine of Aloes (168): stomachic, purgative. Treats chlorosis and dyspesia, and "affections of the mesenteric glands of children." Savory's Aloetic Mixture for Children contains compound decoction of aloes and wine of aloes. (169)

Diseases Treated with Aloes

• Costiveness, or Constipation (225): a compound aloetic pill can be used when the intestinal muscles are no longer functioning properly
• Gout (235): Socotine aloes are included in Dr. Cartwright's pills used as preventative measures
• Mensturation (246): purging with aloes one of the way to treat Retention of the Menses, and Chlorosis (green sickness)
• Water-brash (261): a compound decoction of aloes can be used, but Savory indicates that Dr. Jenner's Absorbent Lozenges provide more relief

Medical Articles Containing Aloes

• Aloetic Clyster (297): contains extract of socotrine aloes

Prescriptions Containing Aloes

Antacid

• Antacid Draught (Another) (307): compound decoction of aloes. Used to treat dyspepsia ^[2]
• Chronic Gout (308): compound decoction of aloes

Aperients and Cathartics

• Aperient Aloetic Mixture (311): compound decoction of aloes, wine of aloes. "found very useful when we wish to expel worms from children"
• Aperient Pills (313): extract of aloes
• Aperient and Tonic Pills (313): extract of aloes
• Dr. Copland's Aperient Pills (313): extract of socotrine aloes
• Dinner Pills for the Dyspepsie of Old Persons (314): powdered socotrine aloes

Anthelmintics

• Anthelminic Ointment (316): powdered aloes

Emmenagogues

• Emmenagogue and Antispasmodic Mixture (328): compound tincture of aloes
• For Retention of the Menses (328): extract of aloes

References

1. ↑ Savory, John. A Compendium of Domestic Medicine London: John Churchill and Sons, 1865. https://books.google.ca/books?id=VxoDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA11&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
2. ↑ Savory, John. A Compendium of Domestic Medicine London: John Churchill and Sons, 1865. https://books.google.ca/books?id=VxoDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA307&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false