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. Tartar emetic 1 dr., digitalis 1/2 dr., nitre 3 drs.; mix, and give in a quart of gruel: in simple colds or catarrh. - Clater.
2. Antimonial powder 2 drs., opium a scruple; rub together, and mix with thick gruel: after bleeding, in inflammation of the bladder. - White.
3. In influenza, or epidemic {epizootic) colds. Nitre 1/2 oz., salt of tartar 1 oz., camphor 2 drs., valerian, liquorice, turmeric, of each 1 oz., mustard 2 oz., juniper berries 1 oz., gruel a quart. - Skereett.
4. For the same. After bleeding and a laxative, give antimonial powder 2 drs., camphor 1 1/2 drs., ginger 3 drs., laudanum 1/2 oz., in gruel. - White.
5. In bad colds attended with fever: Nitre 1 oz., camphor 1/2 dr., tartar-emetic 1/2 dr., in gruel. - Peck.
1. Antimonial powder 1/2 dr., camphor 1 dr., Peruvian bark 1 oz., gruel, or decoction of arrowroot, or starch, q. s. for 2 doses. - Peck.
2. In the decline of fevers and influenza. Emetic tartar 1/2 dr., nitre 2 drs., gentian 3 drs., chamomile 1 dr., ginger 1/2 dr.; pour on them a pint of boiling ale, and give when cool. - Clater.
3. Emetic tartar 1/2 dr., gentian 2 drs., digitalis 1/2 dr., nitre 1/2 oz., spirit of nitric ether 4 drs., gruel q. s.
 
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