5229. Ward's Essence for the Headache

5229.    Ward's Essence for the Headache. Spirit of wine, 2 pounds; roche alum in fine powder, 2 ounces; camphor, 4 ounces; essence of lemon, 1/2 ounce; strong water of ammonia, 4 ounces; stop the bottle close, and shake it daily for 3 or 4 days.

5230. Henry's Magnesia

5230.    Henry's Magnesia. A solution of Epsom salts is precipitated by one of carbonate of potash in the cold; the precipitate is well washed, rose water being used for the last washing; it is then made up while drying into large or small cubes.

5231. Hill's Balsam of Honey

5231.    Hill's Balsam of Honey. Balsam of tolu, 2 ounces; styrax, 2 drachms; opium, 1/2 drachm; honey, 8 ounces; spirit of wine, 32 fluid ounces.

5232. Battley's Senna Powder

5232.   Battley's Senna Powder. Senna leaves heated until they become light in color, reduced to powder, and mixed with some finely powdered charcoal.

5233. Munro's Cough Medicine

5233.    Munro's Cough Medicine. 4 drachms paregoric with 2 drachms sulphuric ether and 2 drachms of tincture of tolu. Dose, 1 tea-spoonful in some warm water.

5234. Griffin's Tincture for Coughs

5234.    Griffin's Tincture for Coughs. Oil of caraway and anise, each 2 drachms; saffron, 1/2 ounce; benzoic acid, £ ounce; opium, 5 drachms; camphor, 1/2 ounce; spirit, 6 ounces; honey, 6 ounces. When mixed and dissolved, color with burnt sugar.

5235. Derbyshire's Patent Embrocation for Preventing Sea-Sickness

5235.    Derbyshire's Patent Embrocation for Preventing Sea-Sickness. Boil 2 ounces opium, 2 drachms extract of henbane, 10 grains mace,, and 2 ounces mottled soap, in 3 pints of water for 1/2 hour. When cold, add 1 quart of rectified spirit and 3 drachms spirit of ammonia.

5236. Papier Fayard et Blayn

5236.    Papier Fayard et Blayn. This preparation is now made officinal in the Paris Codex, under the name of Papier dit Chimique. Heat 200 parts olive oil in a capacious dish over an open fire, until vapors begin to be given off. Then add gradually, with stirring, 100 parts finely powdered minium (red lead).

As soon as the first effervescence is over, continue to stir and heat the mixture until it begins again to effervesce. Then remove from the fire and stir rapidly, to remove the white scum on the surface, and at once add 6 parts white wax. This is applied to paper or muslin with a sponge or brush.

Before spreading on the paper or muslin, it must have been prepared a week earlier with the following varnish, to make it impenetrable : olive oil, 100 parts, and garlic, 10 parts, are heated together over the open fire until the moisture of the latter is dispelled and they turn a brown color, after which they are strained. To this mixture are added 80 parts oil of turpentine, 40 parts subcarbonate of iron, and 15 parts carbonate of lead (white lead) in oil. It is also laid on with a brush or sponge.