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These are preis quite unpleasant, but orange-juice com- pared by infusion or decoction. The bruised pletely covers it, ar and so does peppermint ingredients are either simply digested in 2 to water or essence of peppermint. If taken in 4 times their weight of olive oil for some aqueous solution, let the patient be directed days, or they are gently boiled in it until . to suck the juice of an orange immediately they become dry and crisp, care being taken after swallowing the dose, or mix with the that the heat towards the end of the process solution a little peppermint water, with syrup is not greater than that of boiling water. As of tolu. The following is a good formula:
Take chloral hydrate, I drachm; peppermint water, 1/2 ounce; syrup tolu, 1/22 ounce; water, 2 ounces. Dose, from 1/2 ounce to 2 ounces, as may be required. The mixture should not be prepared in large quantities, nor be kept for any length of time.
4747. Improved Formula for Chalk Mixture. To obviate unpleasant and dangerous souring of chalk mixture as commonly soon as either process is complete, the oil is allowed to drain from the ingredients, which may be, if necessary, submitted to the action of a press. The product is usually strained through flannel or a hair sieve while still warm, and, after standing a week or 10 days to settle, the clear portion is decanted from the dregs. Green plants are usually employed for this purpose, but in many cases the dried plants, reduced to powder, and digested for 6 prepared, glycerine may be substituted for the or 8 hours in the oil at the heat of hot water, sugar, according to the following formula: with frequent agitation, yield a much more Take of prepared chalk and glycerine, of each valuable product. These oils are nearly all + ounce; pure gum acacia, 2 drachms; cinna-employed as external applications only. mon water and pure water, of each 4 ounces. The oil is obtained from the following, in Rub well together until thoroughly mixed. the green state: Balsam apple, the seeds This mixture will keep during a whole sum- first taken out; belladonna leaves; elder mer. The glycerine exerts a positively sooth- flowers; fox glove leaves; garden nightglove leaves; garden nighting effect upon the bowels, as well as in some degree arresting fermentation.