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. Common salt 2 oz., infusion of wormwood a quart. Repeat it for some days. - Moiroud.
2. A quart of linseed oil. - Clater.
3. Oil of turpentine 4 oz., linseed or castor oil 8 oz., gruel a pint; preceded by a mild dose of aloes, and bran mashes'.
4. Fern root 2 oz., valerian 1 oz., Dippel's animal oil (empyreumatic oil of hartshorn) 1 oz., yolks of 2 eggs, honey 2 oz.; boil the roots in 2 parts of water to half, incorporate the oil with the egg, and then the honey, and mix the whole with the decoction. - Vatel.
5. Animal oil 1 oz., yolks of 2 eggs, honey 1 oz., water or some bitter infusion a quart. Chabert recommends infusion of savory as a vehicle for the oil. - Lebas.
6. Soot (wood soot?) in fine powder 2 oz., spirit of wine 2 oz.; mix, and add a quart of infusion of rue, or of tansy. Some practitioners prefer milk as a vehicle for worm medicines. - Moiroud. For other worm remedies, see Worm Balls.
*** Worms may be prevented by a properly regulated dietary, and access to rock salt. - Finlay Dun.
 
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