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Indian Cathartic Pills
Reduce to a fine powder, 1 ounce cach aloes and gamboge; 1/4 ounce each mandrake, blood-root, and myrrh; 1½ drachms camphor (see No. 4358) and cayenne; with 4 ounces ginger.
Mix thoroughly and make into ordinary-sized th ounces each boiling vinegar and boiling water.
Filter. Dose, 1 table-spoonful every 2 hours.
This has been administered with great success in malignant scarlet fever; used both internally and as a gargle. 5313. Magendie's Acid Solution of Veratria. Dissolve 1 gram veratria in 2 pills with thick mucilage. Dose, 2 to 4 pills. fluid ounces distilled water and 5 drops aro 5304.
Turlington's Balsam is much matic sulphuric acid. Dose, 1 tea-spoonful, like the compound tincture of benzoin of the in gouty affections. Pharmacopœia of the U. S., though it is some- 5314. Ryan's Gleet Powder. Take 2 what more complicated. To make it, take scruples powdered ergot, 1 ounce powdered benzoin, 12 ounces; liquid storax, 4 ounces; cubebs, drachm powdered cinnamon, and 1 balsam of Peru, 2 ounces; myrrh and aloes, drachm sugar. Make into 8 powders, Dose, each 1 ounce; balsam of tolu and extract of 1 powder 3 times a day, for leucorrhea and liquorice, each 4 ounces; angelica root, 1/2 gleet. ounce; alcohol, 8 pints. Digest for 10 days, and strain.