The druggist's general receipt book : comprising a copious veterinary formulary, with numerous recipes in patent and proprietary medicines, druggists' nostrums, etc. : perfumery and cosmetics; beverages, dietetic articles, and condiments : trade chemicals, scientific processes, and an appendix of useful tables / by Henry Beasley.

  • Beasley, Henry
Date:
1871
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Credit: The druggist's general receipt book : comprising a copious veterinary formulary, with numerous recipes in patent and proprietary medicines, druggists' nostrums, etc. : perfumery and cosmetics; beverages, dietetic articles, and condiments : trade chemicals, scientific processes, and an appendix of useful tables / by Henry Beasley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    powder 1 dr., kino |- dr. ; give it night and morning, with 1 oz. of arrowroot boiled in a pint of water.—Clater. INFLAMMATORY DISORDERS. Bleed; give 2 to 6 oz. Epsom salts. [Give to a calf of six months old ^ the dose for cattle; at a year and a half, ^ the dose.—Spooner.] MEDICINE FOR PILES IN CALVES. Oil of vitriol 15 drops,- tincture of opium ^ oz.—Peck. SOLUTION OF POTASH, FOR CORDS, &c. Subcarbo- nate of potash 2 oz., fresh lime-water 8 oz. To correct acidity in the stomach, give 1 or 2 teaspoonfuls in gruel; the first dose to be given with an ounce or two of Epsom salts in 1^ a pint of thin gruel. If the disorder is attended with griping pains, add a tablespoonful of anodyne carmina- tive tincture.—White. ALUM WHEY. See page 130. TO PROMOTE THE FATTENING OF CALVES. Aniseed ^ lb, fenugreek ^ ft), linseed meal 1 ft); make it into a paste with milk, and cram them with it. Fattening Poivder. Common salt with a little carbonate of soda; a small quantity added to the food promotes fattening, and prevents scouring, &c. HOOSE, OR COUGH FROM WORMS IN AIR-PAS- SAGES. 1. \ pint lime-water every morning, and a tablespoonful of salt every afternoon, to each calf.—Mayer. 2. Linseed oil 4 oz., oil of turpentine 1 oz., oil of cara- ways 20 drops ; repeated once or twice at intervals of 10 days. This dose for calves of 6 to 10 months old.—Dickens. 3. A tablespoonful of oil of turpentine, a little sweet oil, and 6 or 8 oz. of warm water.—White. %i\%i\\i^ gplitatiflus for ^mi Cattle LOTIONS OR WASHES. (See also Embrocations.) LOTIONS FOR CANKER IN CALVES. 1. Alum 1 oz., water 8 oz., tincture of myrrh 1 oz., honey of roses 1 oz.