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Emetic Mixture

Ipecacuanha wine, 1/2 ounce; water, 1 ounce; simple syrup, 1/21 ounce. Mix. For a child, 20 drops or Alteratives. Iteratives. Medicines which effect more, every quarter of an hour until vomitsome alteration in the nature or the ing ensues. An adult may take from to 1 quanty of the vital action, and occasion a ounce. change in the habit or constitution, establish- 5169. Eclectic Emetic Powder. Ipeing the healthy functions of the body with- cacuanha and lobelia, of each 2 ounces; blood root, 1 ounce. Powder, and mix well. Take moving morbific matter, the cause of disease, half a tea-spoonful every 20 minutes till it it is invaluable. When taken, the patient operates. should go to bed, and make use of any of ration.

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