This section is from the book "The Druggist's General Receipt Book", by Henry Beasley. Also available from Amazon: The druggist's general receipt book.
1. Tincture of myrrh and aloes.
2. For proud flesh. Strong solution of sulphate of copper.
3. For offensive wounds: chloride of lime 1 oz., water 1 pint; mix well, and strain.
Goulard's extract 1 oz. spirit of wine 2 oz., water 1/2 pint.
After lancing the bladder, apply a saturated solution of salt in water. - YOUATT.
Alum 1 oz., sulphate of zinc 1/2 oz., warm water 1 pint, treacle 1/4 - Spooner.
They are all poisonous.
1. Stavesacre seeds 4 oz., water 4 pints; boil to 2 pints, and apply it daily. - Peck.
2. Sublimate 2 drs., spirit of wine 2 oz., water 1 pint. - Clater.
3. Stavesacre 4 oz., white hellebore root 2 oz., water 1 gallon; boil to half; apply with a sponge.
Corrosive sublimate 2 drs., muri-atie acid .1/2 oz., water 12 to 16 oz.; mix. In obstinate cases only. - White. See Liniments,
1. White vitriol a scruple, spirit of wine 1 dr., water a pint. - Clater.
2. Sugar of lead 10 to 20 grs., soft water 8 oz. - V.C.
3. Sedative Eye Drops. Powdered digitalis 1 1/2 oz.; infuse in a pint of Cape wine for a fortnight, and filter: a few drops to be introduced into the eye twice or thrice a day. - Spooner.
4. Extract of lead 2 drs., wine of digitalis (above) 2 drs., tincture of opium 2 drs., water a pint.
 
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