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Milk Powder

Take 10,000 parts fresh cows' milk, 2 parts dry caustic potassa, and 2 parts borax. Evaporate these in a vacuum to about 2000 parts. Then mix in thoroughly 50 parts precipitated phosphate of lime, 15 parts table salt, 100 parts powdered temperature not exceeding 100° Fahr. until gum-arabic, and 200 parts powdered sugar. a sample taken from the mixture no longer Evaporate the whole to a dry powder at a runs from the spatula. An intimate mixture heat of 95° to 110° Fahr. (Hager .) of 50 grains powdered santonin and 100 5472. Schwarz's Liniment for Scalds grains powdered sugar is incorporated with and Burns. Take 16 parts linseed oil, 8 the mass, and the whole, by means of a syr- parts white of egg, and 1 part tincture of inge, formed into 100 lozenges, each contain- opium; mix them thoroughly by trituration ing grain of santonin. They are depos- with 2 parts acetate of lead. Spread upon ited on smooth or waxed paper, and when lint and apply to the wound. (Hager.) hard are to be placed between cotton-wadding 5473. Hungarian Liniment. Pulverize Liniment.

Pulverize and protected from the light. 5 parts cantharides, 20 parts each mustard 5464. Quesneville's Ferruginous Pow-seed, black pepper, and camphor; macerate der. Bicarbonate of soda, 4 parts; tartaric for 2 days in 200 parts wine vinegar, then add acid, 7 parts; pure sulphate of iron, 4 parts; 400 parts rectified spirits. Strain with pres- Strain with pressugar, 8 parts. Powder each fine, then mix sure, and filter. (Hager.) and keep the powder in a well-corked bottle. 5474. Bland's Ferruginous Pills. Dose, 1: spoonful in 6 or 7 ounces of sweet- Take equal weights of sulphate of iron and carbonate of potassa; make into a mass with ened water.

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