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Hogg's Pepsine Pills

Mix 2 Kermes mineral, 2 grains; gum-arabic, 1 drachms 34 grains starchy pepsine, 1 drachm drachm; syrup, 5 ounces. Mix. A spoonful 17 grains nitrate of bismuth, and 38t grains occasionally when expectoration is difficult.

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