Important: Safety Warning
This page recommends preparations containing opium, laudanum, morphine, or similar narcotics — in some cases for children. These substances are dangerously addictive, easily fatal in overdose, and strictly controlled by law today.
In addition, this page presents medical treatment from an era before modern medicine. The remedies described are ineffective against the conditions named, and some of the ingredients or doses are harmful. Do not use them to treat any illness; consult a qualified medical professional.
This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon.
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Alterative Pills
Take 24 grains blue mass, 3 grains pulverized opium, and 3 grains powdered ipecacuanha. Make into 24 pills. ly used for substances that are not decomposed by alkalies. When the mixed ingredients are made into a mass, it should be preserved in a bladder placed in a covered stone pot, and occasionally moistened with a little spirit, or spirit and water, to prevent it getting hard.
In all cases the dry ingredients should be reduced to fine powder, and the whole beaten tract of may-apple or mandrake root). Make into a uniform mass of a proper consistence into 24 pills. for rolling into pills. This is effected by roll-