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Tronchin's Cough Syrup
mucilage of tragacanth and powdered liquorice Powdered gun-arabic, 8 ounces; precipitated root. sulphuret of antimony, 4 scruples; anise, 4 5475. Castillon's Powders. Take 1 scruples; extract of liquorice, 2 ounces; ex- drachm each sago, jalap, and tragacanth, all tract of opium, 12 grains; white sugar, 2 in powder; 1 scruple prepared oyster shell, pounds. Mix, and forma lozenges of 6 grains, and sufficient cochineal to color. Boil 1 drachm of this mixture in a pint of milk, and use the decoction as a diet in chronic bowel affections.