5245. Mathieu's Vermifuge

5245.    Mathieu's Vermifuge. Tin filings, 1 ounce; fern root, 3/4 ounce; worm-seed, i ounce; resinous extract of jalap, 1 drachm; sulphate of potassa, 1 drachm; honey to form an electuary. A tea-spoonful every 3 hours for 2 days; then substitute the following: jalap, 2 scruples; sulphate of potassa, 2 scruples; scammony, 1 scruple; gamboge, 10 grains; made into an electuary with honey, and given in the same dose.

5246. Swaim's Vermifuge

5246.      Swaim's Vermifuge. "Worm-seed, 2 ounces; valerian, rhubarb, pink-root, white agaric, of each 11/2 ounces; boil in sufficient water to yield 3 quarts of decoction, and add to it 30 drops oil of tansy, and 45 drops oil of cloves, dissolved in a quart of rectified spirits. Dose, 1 table-spoonful at night.

5247. Calvetti's Manna Lemonade

5247.    Calvetti's Manna Lemonade. Dissolve 1 ounce pure mannite in 10 ounces boiling water, and add sufficient lemon juice to flavor. To be drunk cold or iced. Mannite is a peculiar saccharine principle obtained in crystalline form from manna.

5248. Bond's Compound Mixture of Iron

5248.    Bond's Compound Mixture of Iron. Take 11/2 drachms gum myrrh in tears, 6 drops oil of wintergreen, 2 drops oil of nutmeg, 2 scruples carbonate of potash, 1 ounce loaf sugar, % drachm sulphate of iron, and 7 ounces distilled water. Rub down the myrrh with the oils, add gradually a portion of the water, making a milk of myrrh; then add the potash and sugar. Dissolve the iron in the remainder of the water, and mix the two mixtures by trituration. To be bottled and well corked directly.

5249. Mialhe's Syrup for Hoarseness

5249.   Mialhe's Syrup for Hoarseness. Take 15 parts syrup of gum-arabic, 5 parts syrup of tolu, 5 parts maiden-hair, 1 part nitrate of potassa, and 1 part cherry-laurel water. Dose, a table-spoonful in a cup of sweet balm tea, in short draughts.

5250. De-wees' Carminative

5250.    De-wees' Carminative. Take 1/2 drachm carbonate of magnesia, 1 drachm loaf sugar, GO drops tincture of assafaetida, 20 drops tincture of opium, and 1 fluid ounce water. Dissolve the sugar in half the water; add this to the tinctures previously mixed in the bottle. Rub the magnesia with the remainder of the water; then mix together the two preparations. Direct the mixture to be shaken before used.

5251. Golden Tincture

5251.    Golden Tincture. Take 3 parts sulphuric ether, 2 parts acetated tincture of opium, and 1 part compound spirit of lavender.

5252. Golden Tincture

5252.     Golden Tincture. Sulphuric ether, 1 ounce; laudanum, 1 ounce; chloroform, 1/4 ounce ; alcohol, 1 ounce. Mix. This preparation is extensively used by the German physicians. Dose, from 3 to 30 drops, according to circumstances. It makes an excellent local application in neuralgia and other painful affections.