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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.
This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon.
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Sulphur Pills
The following nary temperature of the atmosphere. When not exceed that of good butter, at the ordiformulæ furnish a convenient and neat method the active ingredients are pulverulent substanof administering sulphur when this useful ces, nothing can be more suitable to form the medicine is required to be given as an alterative in chronic rheumatism and certain discases of the skin: Take sulphur, 42 grains; castile soap, 18 grains. Mix and divide into 12 pills. 1 to 3 pills for a dose, morning and night. Or: Take sulphur and acetate of potassa, of each 24 grains. Make up with suffimass of the ointment than good lard, free from salt; but when they are fluid, or semifluid, prepared suet, or a mixture of suet and lard, will be necessary to give a proper consistence to the compound; in some few instances wax is ordered for this purpose. Glycerine is now frequently prescribed in cient confection of roses into 12 pills. 1 or ointments, and is difficult to mix. Suppose 2 twice a day in scorbutic and scrofulous it be ordered with zinc ointment, as is often cases, and when sulphur generally is indicated. the case, do not use ready-made zinc ointment,