5468. Rousseau's Laudanum

5468.     Rousseau's Laudanum. Dissolve 12 ounces white honey in 3 pounds warm water, and set it aside in a warm place. "When fermentation begins add to it a solution of 4 ounces selected opium in 12 ounces water. Let the mixture stand for a month at a temperature of 86° Fahr.; then strain, filter, and evaporate to 10 ounces; finally strain and add 4k ounces proof alcohol. Seven drops of this preparation contain about 1 grain of opium.

5469. Bonnamy's Dentifrice

5469.     Bonnamy's Dentifrice. Take prepared chalk, 1 part; burned hartshorn, 1 part; hydrate of alumina, 1 part; perfume with oil of cinnamon. This is an excellent dentifrice.

5470. Extract of Milk

5470.     Extract of Milk. Condensed milk is thus prepared: Take 10,000 parts fresh cows' milk, 50 parts white sugar, and 2 parts pure carbonate of soda. Place them in a porcelain vessel, and, with constant stirring, evaporate to the consistence of a thick extract, either in a vacuum or by the heat of a vapor bath of 140° to 160° Fahr. One part of the extract will represent 10 parts of fresh milk. (Hager.)

5471. MiBs Powder

5471.    MiBs Powder. Take 10,000 parts fresh cows' milk, 2 parts dry caustic potassa, and 2 parts borax. Evaporate these in a vacuum to about 2000 parts. Then mix in thoroughly 50 parts precipitated phosphate of lime, 15 parts table salt, 100 parts powdered gum-arabic, and 200 parts powdered sugar. Evaporate the whole to a dry powder at a heat of 95° to 110° Fahr. {Eager.)

5472. Schwarz's Liniment for Scalds and Burns

5472.    Schwarz's Liniment for Scalds and Burns. Take 16 parts linseed oil, 8 parts white of egg, and 1 part tincture of opium; mix them thoroughly by trituration with 2 parts acetate of lead. Spread upon lint and apply to the wound. {Hager.)

5473. Hungarian Liniment

5473.   Hungarian Liniment. Pulverize 5 parts cantharides, 20 parts each mustard seed, black pepper, and camphor; macerate for 2 days in 200 parts wine vinegar, then add 400 parts rectified spirits. Strain with pressure, and filter. {Hager.)

5474. Bland's Ferruginous Pills

5474. Bland's Ferruginous Pills. Take equal weights of sulphate of iron and carbonate of potassa; make into a mass with mucilage of tragacanth and powdered liquorice root.

5475. Castillon's Powders

5475. Castillon's Powders. Take 1 drachm each sago, jalap, and tragacanth, all in powder; 1 scruple prepared oyster shell, and sufficient cochineal to color. Boil 1 drachm of this mixture in a pint of milk, and use the decoction as a diet in chronic bowel affections.

5476. Goulard's Cerate

5476.    Goulard's Cerate. This is the same preparation as the cerate of subacetate of lead of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia. Mix 4 troy ounces melted white wax with 7 troy ounces olive oil. When it begins to thicken, gradually pour in 21/2 fluid ounces solution of subacetate of lead, stirring constantly with a wooden spatula until cool. Then mix in 30 grains camphor dissolved in 1 fluid ounce olive oil.