Manna

Imported from

• Spain and Canaries
• Italy

Description

Manna

A Compendium of Domestic Medicine, 1865

All page numbers are recorded as (PDF #/SOURCE #)

Classified as a Aperient and Purgative (411/390)

“Is one of the mildest and safest purgatives known, and is adapted chiefly for children and very delicate females.” It is often combined with senna, castor oil, or other purgatives, primarily to mask their taste rather than further improving their cathartic properties. “Mothers frequently give it to their children as an innocent purgative; but, though mild in its operation, if given alone it is apt to produce flatulence and griping.” (122/101)

Remedies Containing or to be used with Manna

• Cream of Tartar (71/50): combined with manna to form laxative lozenges (does not include senna, castor oil, or other purgatives)
• Epsom Salts (77/56): combined with manna for a mixture given to infants between 1-2 years old.
• Magnesia, Calcined (121/100): often combined with manna to form “an efficient purgative for general use”
• Manna (122/101): included in a mixture given to infants during a cold/catarrh, and also as a mild purgative (it is combined with senna, calcined magnesia, and a tincture of rhubarb).
• Soluble Tartar (158/137): manna included in a mixture given to children. Either an aperient or purgative (both?)

Diseases Treated with Manna

General Diseases

• Costiveness, or Constipation (246/225): “the best medicines are the mild purgatives as castor oil, manna, &c.”

Infantile Diseases

• Infantile Costiveness (290/269): manna can be combined with a child’s food, but it is not the main medication prescribed by Savory.

Medical Articles Containing Manna

• Abernethy’s Aperient Mixture (322/301): manna

Prescriptions Containing Manna

Aperients and Cathartics

• Aperient Mixture (Another) (332/311): manna
• Aperient Mixture (Another) (332/311): manna
• Aperient Mixture (Another) (332/311): manna
• Manna Draught (336/315): manna
• Mild Laxative for Children (336/315): fine manna