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of a pound of treacle, and seven

ounces of best vinegar, and simmer in a common pipkin for fifteen

minutes; remove it from the fire, and when the mixture has become

lukewarm, add two drachms of ipecacuanha wine. The dose is a

tablespoonful every four hours for adults. This is one of the best

mixtures known for recent cough, and, on account of its pleasant

taste, is particularly eligible for children and infants.

 

437.—Emulsion for Recent Coughs

 

Mix an ounce of oil of sweet almonds, the yolk of one egg, five ounces

of orange-flower water, half an ounce of mucilage of gum Arabic, a

drachm and a half of ipecacuanha wine, and half an ounce of syrup of

marshmellows. The dose is a tablespoonful when the cough is

troublesome. Half this quantity may be given to young children.

 

438.—Emulsion for Old Coughs

 

Rub well two drachms of gum ammoniac, gradually adding half a pint of

water; when they are thoroughly mixed, strain them through linen. This

is a useful expectorant in old coughs and asthmas, when no

inflammatory symptoms are present. The dose is from one to two

tablespoonfuls, united with an equal quantity of almond emulsion.

 

439.—Cure for Hooping-cough

 

Dissolve a scruple of salts of tartar in a quarter of a pint of water;

add ten grains of cochineal, and sweeten with sugar. Give to an infant

the fourth part of a tablespoonful four times a day; two years old,

half a spoonful; from four years, a tablespoonful.

 

440.—Roche’s Embrocation for Hooping-cough

 

Mix eight ounces of olive oil, four ounces of oil of amber, and a

sufficient quantity of oil of cloves to scent it strongly. This is the

same as the famous embrocation of Roche. When rubbed on the chest, it

stimulates the skin gently, and is sometimes serviceable in

hooping-cough and the other coughs of children. In hooping-cough it

should not be used for the first ten days of the disease.

 

441.—Valuable Lotion for Hooping-cough, &c.

 

Dissolve one drachm of emetic tartar in two ounces of common water,

and add half an ounce of tincture of Spanish fly. This is a valuable

lotion in the advanced stages of hooping-cough, and is of much service

in all other coughs, both of adults and children. It is often very

useful in removing the distressing cough and oppression of the chest

left after the hoop has quitted the patient. After it has been rubbed

into the chest night and morning for about a week, it will create a

redness, and bring out some small pustules; it should then be applied

only once a day, and if the part becomes very sore, it may be laid

aside altogether, and the pustules anointed twice a day with simple

white ointment. In very severe cases, however, it will be necessary to

continue the use of this lotion until a large number of pustules

appear; and if they are kept discharging freely by an occasional use

of it, the relief will be more striking and permanent.

 

442.—Warm Plaster

 

Melt together with a moderate heat one part of blistering plaster and

fourteen of Burgundy pitch, and mix them so as to form a plaster. This

will be stimulant, and create a slight irritation on the part to which

it is applied. It is used with advantage in common cough,

hooping-cough, sciatica, and local pain.

 

443.—Gargle for Irritation and Inflammation in the Throat

 

Mix two drachms of purified nitre, seven ounces of barley-water, and

seven drachms of acetate of honey. Use frequently.

 

444.—Another Recipe

 

Mix half a drachm of muriatic acid and seven ounces of decoction of

black-current leaves or barley-water. This and the preceding gargle

should be used when the object is to reduce the inflammation in the

throat without its proceeding to suppuration. They are likewise useful

in relaxed sore throat. This gargle possesses cleansing qualities, and

should be used when the fauces are clogged with viscid mucus. It may

be made still more detergent, if necessary, by increasing a little the

quantity of acid.

 

445.—A Good Gargle for Sore Throats

 

Mix two drachms of tincture of myrrh, four ounces of water, and half

an ounce of vinegar.

 

446.—Excellent Domestic Gargle

 

Mix together, in a half-pint tumbler, three teaspoonfuls of vinegar,

two of tincture of myrrh, two of honey, and about one-fourth of a

tumbler of port wine; then fill up the tumbler with lukewarm water,

and the gargle will be fit for use. This is both pleasant and

efficacious in all cases of sore throat. If a decoction of

black-currant leaves be used instead of lukewarm water, it will be

much improved.

 

447.—Remedy for Sprains

 

Mix together one ounce each of camphorated spirit, common vinegar, and

spirits of turpentine.

 

448.—Another Recipe

 

Put the white of an egg into a saucer, and stir it with a piece of

alum, about the size of a walnut, until it becomes a thick jelly;

apply a portion of it on a piece of lint or two large enough to cover

the sprain, changing it for a fresh one as often as it gets warm or

dry, and keep the limb in a horizontal position.

 

449.—Embrocation for Sprains and Bruises

 

Mix together an ounce and a half of compound liniment of camphor and

half an ounce of tincture of opium. This is a very useful application

to sprains and bruises, after all inflammation has disappeared, and

for rheumatic pains. Warmed and rubbed over the surface of the

abdomen, it is of much service in allaying the pain of colic

unattended by inflammation.

 

450.—Another Recipe

 

Mix an ounce of solution of acetate of ammonia and an ounce of soap

liniment. This is useful when the bruises or sprains are accompanied

with inflammation.

 

451.—Lime Liniment for Burns, Scalds, &c.

 

Mix together equal parts of linseed or common olive oil and

lime-water. Well shake the liniment every time it is used.

 

452.—Spermaceti Ointment for Dressing Blisters

 

Melt an ounce of white wax and a quarter of an ounce of spermaceti in

two ounces of olive oil, and stir the mixture till it becomes cold.

 

453.—To Prevent Galling in Persons confined to their Beds

 

Beat the white of an egg to a strong froth, and gradually drop in two

teaspoonfuls of spirits of wine; put the mixture into a bottle, and

apply occasionally with a feather.

 

454.—Anodyne Fomentation

 

Boil three ounces of white poppy-heads, half an ounce of

elder-flowers, and three pints of water till one pint is evaporated;

then strain out the liquor. This fomentation is used to relax spasm

and relieve acute pain. Sometimes it may be advisable to add three

teaspoonfuls of tincture of opium to it.

 

455.—Common Fomentation

 

Boil an ounce of dried mallows, half an ounce of dried

camomile-flowers, and a pint of water for a quarter of an hour, and

strain. This is a very good fomentation for all common occasions.

 

456.—Nitric Acid Lotion

 

Mix together two drachms of diluted nitric acid and a pint of water.

This lotion is stimulating and detergent, and is very serviceable when

applied to foul foetid ulcers attended with a thin ichorous discharge.

It is also useful in caries of the bone, and when there is an

impending mortification. It is a favourite lotion in unhealthy

ulcerations, which require the application of a mild stimulant.

 

457.—Cure for Bowel Complaint

 

Mix half a drachm of rhubarb powder, a drachm of calcined magnesia, an

ounce of paregoric elixir, and half a pint of peppermint water. Shake

up, and take two tablespoonfuls every three hours till relieved.

 

458.—Another Recipe

 

The following is a better prescription for the same purpose:—Mix

eight ounces of chalk mixture, a drachm of aromatic confection, three

drachms of compound tincture of camphor, and three or four drops of

oil of caraways. Take two tablespoonfuls every three hours, or oftener

if the pain and purging be urgent; a teaspoonful is a dose for young

children, and one tablespoonful for those of ten or twelve years of

age.

 

459.—Compound Infusion of Senna

 

Macerate for an hour in a pint of boiling water, in a lightly covered

vessel, an ounce and a half of senna-leaves and a drachm of sliced

ginger-root, and strain the liquor. This is a useful purging infusion,

in common use among medical men. It is usually given in conjunction

with a little Epsom or Glauber’s salts, and forms a purging mixture of

great service in all acute diseases.

 

460.—Warm Purgative Tincture

 

Put three ounces of senna-leaves, three drachms of bruised

caraway-seeds, a drachm of cardamom-seeds, and four ounces of stoned

raisins into two pints of best brandy; macerate for fourteen days in a

gentle heat, and filter. This is quite equal to the celebrated Daffy’s

elixir, and is similar to the tincture of senna sold at the shops. It

is stomachic and purgative, and is beneficially employed in

flatulency, pains in the bowels, gouty habits, and as an opening

medicine for those whose bowels have been weakened by intemperance.

The dose is one, two, or three tablespoonfuls, in any agreeable

vehicle.

 

461.—Tonic Aperient Mixture

 

Mix three ounces and a half each of decoction of bark and infusion of

senna, three drachms of sulphate of potash, and half an ounce of

compound tincture of bark. Take three tablespoonfuls once or twice a

day, so as to keep the bowels regular; or it may be used only

occasionally, when an aperient is required.

 

462.—Mild Aperient Pills

 

Beat into a mass and divide into twelve pills half a drachm of

compound extract of colocynth, a scruple of compound rhubarb pill, ten

grains of Castille soap, and five drops of oil of juniper. These are

excellent aperient pills for occasional use in costiveness, bilious

affections, and on all ordinary occasions, and are suited to the

relief of these complaints in children as well as in adults. One pill

taken at bedtime is generally sufficient, but some persons may require

two.

 

463.—Digestive Aperient Pills

 

Well rub thirty-six or forty grains of socotrine aloes with eighteen

grains of gum mastic, and add twenty-four grains each of compound

extract of gentian and compound galbanum pill, and a sufficient

quantity of oil of aniseed to make twenty pills. Take two or three, an

hour before dinner, or at night. They are stomachic and aperient,

containing an antispasmodic, and producing usually a full feculent

evacuation. They are very suitable to persons who have no vital energy

to spare, and require a medicine which will operate mildly, surely,

and safely.

 

464.—Worm Powder

 

Rub well together two or three grains of calomel and ten grains of

compound powder of scammony. This is an efficacious powder for the

expulsion of worms from children and adults, and may be given twice a

week, or oftener, till the object be accomplished.

 

465.—Infallible Cure for Tapeworm

 

Take of the plant Gisekia pharmaceoides, in its green, fresh state,

leaves, stalks, seeds, and seed-capsules (if the plant be in seed or

forming its seed-vessels) indiscriminately one pound, and grind it

down with sufficient water to render it liquid. It should be

administered to the patient after twelve hours of fasting, and

repeated on the fourth and eighth days. As a precautionary measure, to

destroy any latent germs, repeat the dose in eight days more. The

Gisekia is free of every poisonous quality: it simply possesses an

acrid volatile principle, fatal alone to the tapeworm, and is in no

way distressing to the stomach or digestive organs. The plant

flourishes most luxuriantly in the jungles at Ferozepore, cis-Sutlej

territories, Cawnpore, Seharunpore, Egypt, Coromandel, the banks of

the Irrawaddie, in Burmah, and throughout Oude. As a specific it was

first brought to European notice by a fakeer