The druggist's general receipt book ... / by Henry Beasley.

  • Beasley, Henry
Date:
1852
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Credit: The druggist's general receipt book ... / by Henry Beasley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cool, ^ pint of olive oil ami ^ pint of tincture of senna.— Taplin. PimjaLlve. 1. Aloes 8 to 12 dr., salt8 oz., water 1 gallon: in staggers White. 2. Senna 2 oz., tobacco 2 oz; boil for a quarter of an hour in 2 quarts of water, strain, and add common salt 4 oz., emetic tartar 1 dr.; for 2 doses. Very irrilating. —Lebas. Emollient. Dried mallow leaves, or marshmallow root 1 ^ oz., linseed ^ oz., water 2 quarts; boil and strain : to be used warm.—Moirood. Emollient and Anodyne. 2. Mix 0 dr. of starch in powder, with a little cold water, and add it to a decoction of 0 poppy heads in 2 quarts of water; boil for an instant and strain: in intestinal irritation.—Moiroud. 2. Gruel 2 pints, liquid starch or arrowroot 1 pint, powdered opium 1 dr. to 1^ dr.—White. 3. Boil U poppy heads in 4 quarts of water till reduced to 2 quarts; add prepared chalk 2 oz,, boiled starch 2 quarts: once or twice a day in diarrhoea.—Blaine. 4. A double handful of coarse bran, 6 poppy-heads, 2 quarts of water; boil and strain.—Moiroud. 5. Tripe liquor (or suet boiled in milk) 3 pints, thin starch a quart, laudanum § oz.: in diarrhoea. Cvoliny. Butter-milk or whey, barley-water, of each a quart.—Moiroud. Carminative and Stimulant. 1. Chamomiles 3 oz., aniseed or feunel seed 1§ oz., poppy-heads No. 4; boil the pop- pies in sufficient water, and infuse the flowers and seeds in the hot decoction.—M. Vatel. 2. To expel wind. Boil 1 tb of figs in 3 quarts of W'ater for half an hour, then add 2 handfuls of chopped rue; boil a few minutes, strain, and add 8 oz. of olive oil. SoLLEYSELL. For Gripes. Mash 2 onions, pour over them 2 oz. of oil of turpentine and 4 quarts of thin gruel.—Blaine. Aslrinyent. Alum whey 1 quart, thin starch a quart. Vermifuge. 1. For thread worms. Powdered aloes ^ oz., powdered gum Arabic f oz.; mix with half pint of boiling water; then mix the white of an egg with a quart of
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