5263. Chapman's Copaiba Mixture

5263.    Chapman's Copaiba Mixture. Make a mixture of 1/2 ounce copaiba, 1/2 fluid ounce sweet spirits of nitre, 2 drachms powdered acacia, 1 drachm sugar, 4 fluid ounces distilled water, 2 fluid drachms compound spirit of lavender, and 1 fluid drachm tincture of opium. Dose, a table-spoonful 3 times a day. A specific remedy for gonorrhoea.

5264. Morton's Copaiba Mixture

5264.      Morton's Copaiba Mixture. Take 1/2 ounce each copaiba and powdered cu-bebs, 2 drachms each acacia and sugar, 7 fluid ounces water, and 1/2 fluid ounce camphorated tincture of opium. Make into a mixture. Dose, a table-spoonful every 3 hours. An efficacious remedy for obstinate gonorrhoea.

5265. Jackson's Pectoral Syrup

5265.      Jackson's Pectoral Syrup. Macerate 1 drachm sassafras pith and 1 ounce acacia in 1 pint water for 12 hours; add 21 ounces sugar, dissolve the sugar in it without heat, filter, and then add 8 grains muriate of morphia. Dose, 1 tea-spoonful every 3 hours.

5266. Ayer's Wild Cherry Expectorant

5266.    Ayer's Wild Cherry Expectorant. Mix together 3 grains acetate of morphia, 2 fluid drachms tincture of blood-root, 3 fluid drachms each antimonial wine and ipecacuanha wine, and 3 fluid ounces syrup of wild cherry bark. Dose, 1 tea-spoonful in catarrh, bronchitis, and influenza.

5267. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral

5267.    Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. The following receipt is said to be somewhat near to, if not exactly identical with the receipt after which this well known article is compounded: Take of syrup of wild cherry, 6 drachms; syrup of squills, 3 drachms; tincture of blood-root, 2 drachms; sweet spirits of nitre, 2 drachms; antimonial wine, 3 drachms; wine of ipecacuanha, 3 drachms; simple syrup, 11/2 ounces; acetate of morphine, 2 grains. Mix, and add oil of bitter almonds, 2 drops; dissolved in alcohol, 1 drachm.

5268. Donovan's Mixture of Cyanide of Potassium

5268.    Donovan's Mixture of Cyanide of Potassium. Mix together 1 grain cyanide of potassium, 31/2 fluid ounces distilled water, and 1/2 fluid ounce lemon syrup. Dose, a table-spoonful every 2 hours. Useful to check vomiting, and allay cough; and, in much smaller doses, for whooping cough in children.

5269. Renault's Pectoral Paste

5269. Renault's Pectoral Paste. Flowers of mallow, flowers of cudweed, flowers of coltsfoot, and flowers of red poppy 1 ounce of each; boil in a quart of water, strain, then add 30 ounces of gum-arabic, 20 ounces of white sugar, and 2 drachms tincture of tolu; dissolve, strain, and evaporate to the proper consistence.

5270. Dennis' Patent Anti-spasmodic Tincture

5270. Dennis' Patent Anti-spasmodic Tincture. Take 1 ounce each tincture of scullcap, valerian, myrrh, and capsicum; 2 ounces tincture of lobelia; a little soda; and sufficient water.