Piso's Cure for Consumption
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| Kind | Patent medicine |
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| Part of the plant | Flower |
| Also called | Piso's Cure |
| Language | English |
| Country | United States |
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| First recorded | 1894[1]: 137 |
| Still made | Not known |
Piso's Cure for Consumption is an American patent medicine sold under that name as a cure for consumption. A formula for it reprinted from the New Idea in Charles W. Oleson's Secret Nostrums and Systems of Medicine (1894) gives tincture of tolu half an ounce, fluid extract of lobelia two drachms, fluid extract of Cannabis indica two drachms, chloroform one drachm, morphine sulphate four grains, tartar emetic four grains and ten drops of essence of spearmint, with eight ounces of water and fourteen of sugar, in a dose of one teaspoonful.[1]: 137 Oleson's preface warns that the analyses he reprints are given on the authority of the journals that published them, without a guarantee of their exactness.[1]: preface
In a list of medicines containing habit-forming drugs, given in the report of the President's Homes Commission and reprinted in the American Medical Association's Nostrums and Quackery (1911), Piso's Cure stands under "Cannabis Indica". Lyman F. Kebler, chief of the drug division of the Department of Agriculture, counted cannabis indica among the habit-forming drugs in that report.[2]: 350
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Oleson, Charles W. (1894). Secret Nostrums and Systems of Medicine: a book of formulas (5th ed.). Chicago: Oleson & Co. – via Wellcome Collection.
- ↑ American Medical Association (1911). Nostrums and Quackery: articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted from the Journal of the American Medical Association. Chicago: Press of American Medical Association – via Wellcome Collection.