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.
Mix 3 parts of flowers of sulphur, 1 of common salt, and 1 of honey, into an electuary; give 1/2 of this daily, in gruel. Keep the mouth and nose clean with vinegar and water. See also Purging Drench, No. 7, above.
Epsom salts 1/2 oz., chamomile tea 4 oz. Afterwards give half doses of the Fever Drench, above. - Darby.
1. Glauber's salts 1 oz., hot water 1 oz., peppermint-water 4 oz., tincture of ginger 1 dr., tincture of gentian
2 drs.; every six hours till the bowels are opened, and half the quantity the next 4 mornings. - Ceater.
2. Common salt 1 oz., solution of potash (White's)
1 1/2 dr., castor or olive oil 2 tablespoonfuls, water 3 oz. After letting out the air by a tube or probang). - White.
Pearlash 1 1/2 dr., hot water 8 oz. To be given from a flat bottle the second and fourth morning after putting them to keep. - Holditch.
After bleeding, 2 oz. of Epsom and Glauber's salts, in warm water or thin gruel.
 
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