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Kermes Mineral (Dissolve lactic acid Make into)
Dissolve 23 lactic acid. Make into 100 pills, and coat with sugar and balsam of tolu. Dose, 4 to 12 troy ounces carbonate of soda in 16 pints pills 1 hour after meals. boiling water; add 1 troy ounce finely powwater; add 1 troy ounce finely pow- 5461. Angelot's Remedy for Ulcera- dered sulphuret of antimony, and boil for an ted Gums. Take of hypochlorite of lime, hour. Filter rapidly into a warm earthen from 10 to 25 grains; mucilage of gum-ara- vessel, cover closely and cool slowly. After bic, 1½ to 4 drachms; syrup of orange peel, 24 hours decant the fluid, drain the precipifluid, drain the precipi- 1½ to 2 drachms. Mix thoroughly. This tate on a filter, wash it with cold water (precold water (premixture is employed as a lotion to the ulcera- viously boiled), and dry without heat. Keep ted gums. in a well-stopped bottle, protected from the