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This page presents medical treatment from an era before modern medicine. The remedies described are ineffective against the conditions named, and some of the ingredients or doses are harmful. Do not use them to treat any illness; consult a qualified medical professional.
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Remedy for Worms
Take 6 disinclining us to locomotion. The next thing grains santonin; 2 grains powdered gamboge; is, to eat nothing but common rice, parched 3 grains calomel; and 12 grains powdered like coffee, and then boiled, and taken with a white sugar. Make into 6 powders. Give 1 powder 3 times a day for a child one year old, and a dose of castor oil the day after taking the powders. little salt and butter. Drink little or no liquid of any kind. Bits of ice may be eaten and swallowed at will. Every step taken in diarrhea, every spoonful of liquid, only aggra-