5351. Brodum's Nervous Cordial

5351.      Brodum's Nervous Cordial. Take equal parts of iron wine, compound sprits of lavender, tinctures of calumba, gentian, cinchona, and cardamoms.

5352. Atkinson's Infant Preservative

5352.     Atkinson's Infant Preservative. Carbonate of magnesia, 6 drachms; white sugar, 2 ounces; oil of aniseed, 20 drops; spirit of sal-volatile, 21/2 drachms ; laudanum, 1 drachm; syrup of saffron, 1 ounce; caraway water to make a pint.

5353. Boyle's Fuming Liquor

5353.    Boyle's Fuming Liquor. Take quicklime and sulphur, each 3 parts. Triturate together, adding water sufficient to form a paste, and incorporate 7 parts sulphate of ammonia dissolved in water; let the whole stand, then decant, wash the residuum, rubbing it with a small portion of water, unite the solutions, and filter. This is the sulphuretted hydrosulphate of ammonia, and is used in medicine as a powerful alterative in constitutional diseases.

5354. Hall's Solution of Strychnia

5354.    Hall's Solution of Strychnia. Take pure crystals of strychnia, 16 grains; water and alcohol, of each 71/2 ounces; acetic acid and compound tincture of cardamoms, of each 1/2 ounce. Mix for solution. Dose, 20 to 30 drops, once or twice a day.

5355. Flemming's Solution of Strychnia

5355.  Flemming's Solution of Strychnia. Take of strychnia, 2 grains; distilled water, 5 fluid drachms; muriatic acid, 1 drop, or sufficient to dissolve the strychnia. Dissolve by trituration, and add diluted alcohol enough to make 10 fluid drachms. Dose, in the beginning, 10 minims.

5356. Brandish's Alkaline Tincture of Rhuharb

5356.    Brandish's Alkaline Tincture of Rhuharb. Coarsely powdered rhubarb, 1 ounce; Brandish's alkaline solution, 32 fluid ounces. The original formula directs only 1/2 ounce rhubarb, but as smaller doses than were given by Dr. Brandish are now usually prescribed, the quantity of rhubarb is here increased. Or an alkaline infusion of rhubarb may be made by pouring boiling water, 8 parts, on rhubarb, 3 parts, and carbonate of potash, 1 part.

5357. Brandish's Alkaline Solution, or Caustic Alkali

5357.    Brandish's Alkaline Solution, or Caustic Alkali. American pearl-ashes, 6 pounds; quicklime, 2 pounds; wood ashes prepared by burning the branches of the ash, 2 pounds; boiling water, 6 gallons; slack the lime, add the rest of the water and the pearl-ashes, and lastly stir in the wood-ashes; let it stand in a covered vessel for 24 hours, and decant. To each pint add 1 drop of true oil of juniper berries. Keep it in stoppered bottles of green glass. The common liquor of potassa is usually sold for the above solution.

5358. Coating for Pills

5358. Coating for Pills. Durden recommends collodion as a covering for pills; others, a solution of gutta percha in chloroform; but the ready solubility of these materials in the stomach may be questioned. Blanchard uses balsam of tolu dissolved in ether. Baildon recommends chloroform instead of ether for dissolving the balsam.