Cloves

Imported from

• Holland
• India
• Singapore
• Ceylon
• East Indies
• China
• The Americas
• France
• Spain
• Mauritius
• British West Indies
• Cuba
• Brazil
• Germany
• Belgium
• Cape of Good Hope
• United States of America

Description

Cloves

A Compendium of Domestic Medicine, 1865

All page numbers are recorded as (PDF #/SOURCE #) Classified by Savory as a stimulant, particularly a remedy “which speedily increases the frequency of the pulse and the heat of the body,” (415/394) and also as a stomachic and cordial (416/395)

Remedies Containing or to be used with Cloves

• Aloes, Socotrine (34/13): oil of cloves included in “The Compound Cathartic Pills with Aloes,” to be taken occasionally at bed time.
• Bark, Canella (49/18): cloves are used in the recipe for usquebaugh (whiskey), which can be given to individuals “of gouty habit, or those liable to spasm or cramp in the stomach.”
• Cloves (68/47): added to bitters and other infusions for flavour and lessen negative effects on the stomach. Oil of cloves can be used to reduce griping caused by cathartic pills, and powdered cloves can be used with jalap to create a laxative pill.
• Extract of Colocynth, Compound (82/61): oil of cloves, or other carminatives (is that the right classification?) to reduce griping, when Compound extract of colocynth is used as a purgative.
• Gum Scammony (98/77): oil of cloves or peppermint can be combined with gum scammony in treating worms, and is also often combined with other purgatives when used with gum scammony. Cloves are included in scammony pills that are taken at bed time (99/78).
• Infusions, Concentrated (105/84) of cloves, calumbo, cascarilla, chamomile, gentian, orange peel, quassia, rhubarb, roses, and senna: used often in medicine chests as they can be diluted to form infusions. This allows for large doses to be provided in smaller amounts.
• Laudanum (113/92): combined with oil of cloves, laudanum can be applied to decayed teeth to provide instant pain relief.
• Oil of Cloves (128/107): Used to correct the griping caused by cathartic pills, and also used in treating toothaches.
• Pellitory of Spain (137/116): oil of cloves is included in a compound tincture that can be absorbed by cotton and placed on sore teeth and gums.
• Simaruba Bark (155/134): syrup of cloves used in a mixture used by (the late) Dr. Baillie, to treat diarrhoea in children.

Diseases Treated with Cloves

General Diseases

• Cholera Morbus (243/222): oil of cloves included in a pill mixture used to treat violent vomiting and pain in cholera that was not affected by earlier treatments.
• Ear, diseases of (250/229): if earlier treatments are unable to reduce inflammation, oil of cloves mixed with laudanum and oil of almonds is to be dropped into the ear and covered with cotton.

Medical Articles Containing Cloves

• Compound Infusion of Orange Peel (310/289): cloves, bruised
• Gout Tincture (321/300): cloves, bruised

Prescriptions Containing Cloves

Antacids

• Antacid Draught (327/306): oil of cloves

Aperients and Cathartics

• Common Aperient Pills (334/313): oil of cloves
• Aperient Pills (334/313): Oil of cloves
• Aperient Pills for Dyspeptic Persons (334-335/313-314): oil of cloves
• Cathartic Pills (335/314): oil of cloves

Astringents

• Asiatic Tincture for Cholera (340/319): oil of cloves
• Turpentine Mixture (341/320): syrup of cloves
• Dr. Baillie’s Mixture for Children (341/320): syrup of cloves

Stimulants

• Stimulant Mixture (354/333): syrup of cloves

Tonics

• Tonic Mixture for Children (355/334): syrup of cloves
• Stomachic Pills (356/335): oil of cloves