This section is from the "Encyclopedia Of Practical Receipts And Processes" book, by William B. Dick. Also available from Amazon: Dick's encyclopedia of practical receipts and processes.
5179. Thompson's Hot Drops. Gum myrrh, 2 ounces; cayenne pepper, l1/2 drachms; spirit of wine, 1 pint. Put in a bottle, and shake several times a day for a week. Take a tea-spoonful or more in a little warm tea. It is a fine remedy for rheumatism. It will relieve the headache by taking a dose, bathing the head with it, and snuffing it up the nose. It is good for bruises, sprains, swollen joints and old sores, etc., etc..
5180. Anderson's Scott's Pills. Bar-badoes aloes, 24 ounces ; colocynth, 1 ounce ; gamboge, 1 ounce; Spanish soap, 4 ounces; oil of anise, 1/2 ounce; water, a sufficient quantity. To be made into 3-grain pills.
5181. Marshall Hall's Dinner Pills. Take of powdered Barbadoes aloes, soap, and powdered extract of liquorice, of each equal parts. Make a mass with molasses, and form into pills of 4 grains each.
5182. White's Gout Pills. Take of calomel, powdered socotrine aloes, powdered ipecacuanha, and acetic extract of colchi-cum, of each 1 drachm. Make a mass with syrup, and form into 60 pills.
5183. Abernethy's Pills. Take of powdered socotrine aloes, 48 grains ; powdered ipecacuanha, 20 grains; extract of henbane, 48 grains; blue pill mass, 24 grains. Make a mass with water, and form into 24 pills.
5184. Triplex Pills. Take of powdered ' socotrine aloes, 2 ounces; powdered scammony, 1 ounce; blue pill mass, 2 ounces ; oil of caraway, 3 drachms. Make a mass with syrup, and form into pills of 5 grains each.
5185. Peter's Pills. Aloes, jalap, gamboge, and scammony, of each 2 drachms; calomel, 1 drachm.
5186. Walter's Indian Vegetable Pills. Socotrine aloes, 1 pound; powdered gamboge, 6 ounces; compound extract of colocynth, castile soap, and Aleppo scammony, of each 3 ounces ; extract of butternut, 2 ounces; African cayenne, 1/2 ounce; oil of cloves, 1 drachm. Mix and make into 4-grain pills.
5187. Becquerel's Gout Pills. Mix together 106 grains sulphate of quinine, 151/2 grains extract of digitalis (fox-glove), and 381/2 grains of colchicum seeds. Make into 50 pills. Dose, from 1 to 3 daily for several days in succession.
5188. Health Pills. Pillsalutis. Take 2 drachms socotrine aloes, 1 drachm extract of henbane, 16 grains extract of nux-vomica, and 10 grains powdered ipecacuanha. Mix, and make into 60 pills.
5189. Leake's Pill of Health. Pill salutaria. Take 2 drachms calomel, 2 drachms precipitated sulphnret of antimony, 1/2 ounce powdered gum guiacum, and 1/2 ounce molasses. Mix, and make into 240 pills.
 
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