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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    3. In the latter stage, when not costive, calomel 12 gr., sulphate of copper 1 dr., gentian 3 dr., oak bark 3 dr., chamomile 3 dr.. syrup to form a ball; once or twice a day. —Blaine. PHYSIC OR PURGING BALLS. The animal should be prepared by bran mashes for two days, and the ball given . fasting in the morning. Gentle exercise with a ball is use- ful, but not after it begins to operate. Genuine Barbadoes alone should be used (from the gourd not melted), and the -dose seldom need exceed 6 dr. A week should be allowed after the operation of one ball before another is given. See Aloes, in the Veterinary Materia Medica. 1. (V. C. Cathartic Mass.) Bruised B. aloes 8 oz., olive oil 1 oz.; melt together in a vessel placed in hot water; remove it from the fire, add 3 oz. of treacle, and stir altogether; dose, 6 to 12 dr., equal to 4 to 8 dr. of aloes. 2. (V. C. Stronger.) To each dose of the last add from 4 to 8 drops of croton oil. 3. B. aloes 4 to 8 dr., soap 3 to 4 dr., ginger 1 dr., oil of cloves 10 drops (or oil of caraway or aniseed 20 drops), water 1 dr. or q. s.; beat together into a mass.—White. Mr. W. says is the best that can be employed. 4. B. aloes 15 oz., ginger 1 oz. ; mix and beat up with 8 oz. of palm oil. Dose, 1 oz. to 1|.—Youatt. 5. B. aloes 24 dr.. Cape aloes 12 dr., olive oil 4 dr. ; tre- acle 12 dr.; dose, 7 to 14 dr.; mix as No. 1.—Morton. 6. B. aloes 5 dr., 7^ dr., or 9 dr., oil of caraway 10 drops ; made up with palm oil or lard.—Mr. Blaine's Nos. 1, 2, and 3. 7. Melt B. aloes (in a tin vessel immersed in boiling water) with a fifth of its weight of treacle, and Avhile soft, pour it into paper moulds; 1 oz. is a full dose for a large-sized saddle or coach horse.—B. Clark. [For a con- venient apparatus for melting and casting these balls, see Mr. Bracy Clark's Pharmacopoeia Equina; or Vol. V. of the Pharmaceutical Journal.] . 8. B. aloes 5 to 8 dr., cream of tartar 2 dr., oil of cloves 10 drops, treacle to form a ball.—Peall. 9. Aloes 7 dr., Castile soap 4 dr., aromatic powder 1 dr., oil of caraway 6 drops; mucilage to form a ball.— Hinds. 10. B. aloes 7|- parts, Socotrine aloes 7|- parts, ginger