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.
Alum, with an equal or double weight of flour. - White.
See Sundry Solutions, under " Medicine for Horses," further back.
The ingredients to be very finely powdered and mixed.
1. Asarabacca 4 drs., white hellebore 1 dr., mix, and keep in a bottle for use. - Bracken.
2. Snuff 1 oz., hellebore 1 dr., euphorbium 10 to 20 grs. - Peck.
3. In Incipient Cataract. Turpeth mineral 2 drs., asarabacca 4 drs.; mix, and apply as much as will lie upon a sixpence, daily. - Beacken.
 
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