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.
For swelled legs, grease, foul humours, hidebound, mange, surfeit, old coughs, and to render the skin fine. They are usually given with moistened corn. Too free use of these powders may prove injurious.
1. Sulphur 2 parts, black antimony 1, nitre 1; mix; dose 1/2 oz. to 1 oz. - V. C.
2. Sulphur' 4 dr., levigated antimony 2 dr., nitre 3 dr.; mix; in hide-bound and unthrifty coat, every night. - Youatt.
3. Ethiops mineral 1/5 oz., cream of tartar 1 oz.; mix; give every night in a mash; for grease, - Blaine.
4. Sulphur 12 oz., antimony (black) 12 oz.; mix, and divide into 24 powders; for mange, etc. - Taplin.
5. Nitre 16 oz., resin 16 oz., prepared antimony 4 oz., flowers of sulphur 24 oz.; mix; dose, 1 oz. every evening, with moistened corn, for 6 or 8 times.
6. Equal weights of antimony, nitre, and cream of tartar; dose, 6 to 9 dr. - Blaine.
7. Nitre 6 oz., vermilion 1/2 oz., resin 6 oz., tartarized antimony 2 dr.; for 12 doses.
8. Sulphur 1/2 oz., prepared antimony 1 dr.; once a day, in the food, for 10 or 14 days. - Clater.
9. Taplin's Alterative Powders. Levigated antimony 8 oz., sulphur 8 oz., Ethiops mineral 4 oz., cream of tartar 4 oz.; in 12 doses.
10. Cream of tartar 2 dr., nitre 2 dr., sulphur 4 dr.; for one dose. - Blaine.
11. Nitre 1 oz., resin 1 oz., rust of iron 1 oz., emetic tartar 1.5 gr.; dose, 1 oz. - Lebas.
12. In Farcy. Prepared antimony 12 oz., sulphur 12 oz., cream of tartar 8 oz., cinnabar 6 oz.; mix, and divide into 20 doses; one every night, in corn. - Taplin.
 
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