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Herb Drink for Fevers
Infuse 1 ounce each of balm, elder-flowers, marshmallow, spearmint, and arnica-flowers, with ounce anise-seed, in boiling water. and strengthening qualities of the quinine. 5137. Fever Mixture. Mix 2 scruples 5129. Dr. Thompson's Bitters.
Bal- nitrate of potash with 3 drachms sweet spirits mony bark, 1 part; poplar bark, 5 parts. Boil of nitre, 3 ounces solution of acetate of ambark, 1 part; poplar bark, 5 parts. Boil of nitre, 3 ounces solution of acetate of amin water sufficient to strain 25 gallons of monia, 4 ounces camphor water, and 2 water from a pound of the bark, to which drachms lemon syrup. Dose for an adult, ald sugar, 35 pounds; nerve powder , 2½ oun- 2 table-spoonfuls every 4 hours. Children in ces; while hot, strain, and add best Malaga proportion. This mixture is excellent where wine, 3 gallons; tincture of meadow-fern, 1 quart. A less quantity may be made by observing the proper proportions. Dose, from half to a wine-glassful twice a day. These bitters are excellent. They are sure to correct the bile, and create an appetite by giving tone to the digestive powers. the fever affects the head.
Infuse 1 ounce pleurisy root for 30 minutes in