5367. Ford's Balsam of Horehound

5367.      Ford's Balsam of Horehound is said to be prepared according to the following formula: horehound herb, 31/2 pounds; liquorice root, 31/2 pounds; water, 8 pints. Infuse for 12 hours, then strain off 6 pints, to which add camphor, 10 drachms; opium and benzoin, of each 1 ounce; dried squills, 2 ounces ; oil of aniseed, 1 ounce ; proof spirit, 12 pints. Macerate for 1 week, then add honey, 31/2 pounds. Mix and strain.

5368. Holloway's Ointment

5368.     Holloway's Ointment. Take butter, 12 ounces; bees'-wax, 4 ounces; yellow resin, 3 ounces. Melt, and add vinegar of cantharides, 1 ounce. (See No. 1178 (To Prepare Vinegar of Cantharides).) Evaporate and add Canada balsam, 1 ounce; oil of mace, 1/2 drachm; balsam Peru, 15 drops.

5369. Holloway's Pills

5369. Holloway's Pills. Take aloes, 4 parts; myrrh, jalap, and ginger, of each 2 parts. Mucilage to mix.

5370. Sydenham's Laudanum

5370.    Sydenham's Laudanum. According to the Paris Codex this is prepared as follows : opium, 2 ounces ; saffron, 1 ounce ; bruised cinnamon and bruised cloves, each 1 drachm; sherry wine, 1 pint. Mix and macerate for 15 days and filter. Twenty drops are equal to one grain of opium.

5371. Riegler's Fever Tincture

5371.   Riegler's Fever Tincture. Take of aloes, 1/2 ounce ; camphor, 4 scruples ; orange peel and elecampane root, of each 8 ounces. Bruise and digest with 10 pints alcohol (80 per cent.) for 8 days. Then express, add 12 ounces dilute sulphuric acid, 6 ounces sulphate of quinine, and l1/2 ounces Sydenham's laudanum. (See last receipt.) After the use of a purgative or emetic if required, 2 drachms of this tincture are given 3 hours before the paroxysm is expected, with short diet. On the seventh, fourteenth, and eighteenth day, after the last attack, the same dose is given. This remedy fails only in very exceptional cases. It is in use in the Austrian military hospitals.

5372. Kitridge's Salve

5372.    Kitridge's Salve. Make a decoction in rain water of 11/2 pounds each bittersweet root and sweet elder root; 1/2 pound each hop vines, hop leaves, and garden plantain tops, with 1/2 pound of the root of the last named plant, and 1/2 ounce plug tobacco. Strain, and press through a thick cloth, and evaporate to 1/2 pint. Then mix with 1 pound sweet butter and 1 ounce each resin and bees'-wax. Heat gently until the water has all evaporated. This is a good curative salve for sores on the human body as well as on animals.

5373. Thirlault's Glycero-pomade of Iodide of Potassium

5373.    Thirlault's Glycero-pomade of Iodide of Potassium. Melt glycerine (of 28° to 30° Baumé), 100 parts ; powdered animal soap, 50 parts, powdered iodide of potassium, 130 parts; in a warm bath ; then pour out into a warm porcelain mortar, and triturate well for 1/4 hour. Then flavor with 2 parts oil of bitter almonds.