5462. Angelot's Pastils for Bad Breath

5462. Angelot's Pastils for Bad Breath. These preparations are better adapted than liquids for carrying on the person. Take of hypochlorite of lime, 7 drachms; sugar flavored with vanilla, 3 drachms; gum-arabic, 5 drachms. The pastils are made so as to weigh from 10 to 11 grains. 2 or 3 of these pastils are sufficient to remove from the breath the disagreeable odor produced by tobacco smoke. The pastils thus prepared have a grey color and become quite hard.

If pastils of whiter color are required the following substances are employed: Take of dry hypochlorite of lime, 20 grains; pulverized sugar, 1 ounce; gum tragacanth, 16 grains. The hypochlorite of lime is triturated in a glass mortar, and a small quantity of water is poured upon it; it is then left to repose, decanted, and a second quantity of water added; the two liquids are filtered, and the gum and sugar added so as to form a paste. This is divided into pastils weighing from 12 to 16 grains. If it is desired to aromatize the paste, 1 or 2 drops of any essential oil may be added to the sugar and gum before the paste is formed.

5463. Santonin Lozenges

5463.      Santonin Lozenges. Take 5 troy ounces white sugar in powder, 1/4 troy ounce fine starch, 10 grains finely powdered tragacanth; the whole well mixed with the white of 5 eggs previously beaten to a dense froth ; place in a porcelain dish over the water-bath, and, with constant stirring, keep at a temperature not exceeding 100° Fahr, until a sample taken from the mixture no longer runs from the spatula. An intimate mixture of 50 grains powdered santonin and 100 grains powdered sugar is incorporated with the mass, and the whole, by means of a syringe, formed into 100 lozenges, each containing 1/2 grain of santonin. They are deposited on smooth or waxed paper, and when hard are to be placed between cotton-wadding and protected from the light.

5464. Quesneville's Ferruginous Powder

5464.   Quesneville's Ferruginous Powder. Bicarbonate of soda, 4 parts; tartaric acid, 7 parts; pure sulphate of iron, 4 parts; sugar, 8 parts. Powder each fine, then mix and keep the powder in a well-corked bottle. Dose, 1 spoonful in 6 or 7 ounces of sweetened water.

5465. Tronchin's Cough Syrup

5465.        Tronchin's Cough Syrup. Powdered gum-arabic, 8 ounces; precipitated sulphuret of antimony, 4 scruples; anise, 4 scruples; extract of liquorice, 2 ounces; extract of opium, 12 grains; white sugar, 2 pounds. Mix, and form lozenges of 6 grains, one of which is to be taken occasionally in catarrh and bronchial affections.

5466. Pierquin's Cough Syrup

5466.       Pierquin's Cough Syrup. Kermes mineral, 2 grains; gum-arabic, 1 drachm; syrup, 5 ounces. Mix. A spoonful occasionally when expectoration is difficult.

5467. Kermes Mineral

5467.    Kermes Mineral. Dissolve 23 troy ounces carbonate of soda in 16 pints boiling water; add 1 troy ounce finely powdered sulphuret of antimony, and boil for an hour. Filter rapidly into a warm earthen vessel, cover closely and cool slowly. After 24 hours decant the fluid, drain the precipitate on a filter, wash it with cold water (previously boiled), and dry without heat. Keep in a well-stopped bottle, protected from the light. ( U. S. Ph.) This is the oxysulphuret of antimony.