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.
Garlic Ball. Beat garlic to a paste with enough linseed or liquorice to form a mass; dose, 10 dr. Camphor Ball. Mix into a ball 2 dr. of camphor with liquorice powder and syrup enough to give it a proper consistence. Iodine Ball. Iodine 5 gr., linseed meal 5 dr., palm oil to form a ball. Ball to prevent Hydrophobia. Skullcap 2 scruples, belladonna 2 1/2 gr., form them into a ball, to be given night and morning; the second week 2 balls, the third 3 balls, and this continued for 6 weeks. - Youatt. Leicester Red Balls. Nitre 1
resin 1
common soda
2 oz., Castile soap 1/2
ginger 2 oz., oil of juniper 2 dr., cinnabar 1/2 oz.; dose, 1 1/2 oz. Balls for Appetite. Equal weights of assafoetida, saffron, bay-berries, and aloes, made into a mass with extract of gentian; dose, 1 oz. - Lebas. Anodyne Ball. Opium 1/2 dr. to 1 dr., camphor 1 dr., aniseed
1/2 oz., soft extract of liquorice q. s. - White. Antispasmodic Ball. Opium 1 dr., powdered belladonna
10 gr., linseed meal 3 dr., palm oil or treacle q. s.; twice or thrice a day, in spasm of the neck of the bladder. -
Clater. Ball for Roaring. The cough Ball, No. 12, may be tried; and the compound iodine ointment rubbed on the throttle for some weeks or months. Stimulating Diaphoretic Ball. Emetic tartar 1 1/2 dr., ginger
2 dr., camphor 1/2 dr., opium 2 scruples, oil of caraway 15 drops, honey to form a ball; for hide-bound and unhealthy coat without any other disease. - White. Bartlett's Perspirative Ball. Dover's powder 3 dr., camphor 1 dr., treacle q. s. Hind's Sioealing Ball. Emetic tartar, 1 dr., assafoetida 1 dr., liquorice powder and syrup to form a ball; repeat in
12 hours if required. Grease Ball. Liver of antimony 16 oz., salt of tartar 16 oz., gum guaiacum, fenugreek, parsley seed, of each 4 oz., treacle to form a mass; dose, 1 1/2 oz. Sedative Ball. In slight colic. Assafoetida 4 dr., opium
4 dr., syrup and liquorice powder to form 4 balls. -
Hinds. Cordial and Anodyne Ball. Castile soap 3 dr., camphor
2 dr., ginnger 1 1/2 dr., and Venice turpentine 6 dr., into
1 ball. Stimulating Diuretic Balls. Cantharides 1 dr., aloes 2 dr., strained turpentine 1 oz., honey q. s.; make 4 balls, and roll in elecampane powder. - M. Gohier, in Dropsy. Stimulating Expectorant Ball. Assafoetida 3 dr., galbanum
1 dr., carbonate of ammonia 1/2 dr., ginger 1 1/2 dr., honey q. s. - White. Sedative Aperient Ball. In epidemic catarrh or distemper.
Balls for Inflammation of the Lungs (No. 4) 6 dr., physic ball (No. 10) 2 dr.; one at night and another in the morning. - Clater. Zinc and Valerian Ball. - Oxide of zinc 1 oz., valerian 2 oz., oil of hartshorn 1 oz., soft extract of juniper berries, q. s.
to make 4 balls; one, twice a day. - Eckel.
 
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