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B & O Supprettes is one of the few "medications of olde" which science has been unable to improve. It's efficacy in treating renal colic (one darn painful disorder), in combination with a fairly good safety record, and the relative ease with which it can be locally compounded makes it one very useful, but under-appreciated adjunct in palliative medicine. Over the years, I would often torture pharmacists by writing the scripts for the item in long-form Latin:
Rx
B & O Supprettes gr I
Disp: duodecim ; XII
Unus suppositorium per rectum quaque die - bis in die pro re nata non amplius quattuor quaque die
AND.. I'd use a fountain pen to write it!
Note: one patient saw the word "die" three times in the script, and asked if I "thought their days were numbered" to which I replied that the script is written in long-form Latin, and that "die" means "day" in English. With a smile, he replied "oh, this means that I have at least three days left"...
Physicians having a patient who may benefit from the med, remember to titrate down in the sedentary, no ETOH, antihistamines, or anticholinergics should be concomitantly used by the patient. PA MD0351XXE (talk) 03:43, 27 November 2011 (UTC)