This section is from the "Encyclopedia Of Practical Receipts And Processes" book, by William B. Dick. Also available from Amazon: Dick's encyclopedia of practical receipts and processes.
4903. Assafcetida Pills. Mix into a mass with water 3/4 ounce assafcetida and 1/4 ounce soap. Make into 120 pills.
4904. Sulphate of Quinine Pills. Mix J ounce sulphate of quinine with 1 drachm powdered gum-arabic, and make into a mass with honey. To make 240 pills, each of which will contain 1 grain of quinine.
4905. Quinia Pills for Chronic Intermittent Fever. Mix 20 grains sulphate of quinia, 2 grains powdered opium, and 5 minims oleo-resin of pepper, with sufficient syrup of gum-arabic to make a mass. Make into 20 pills. Dose, 2 pills every hour in the morning of an expected chill.
4906. Alterative Pills. Take 24 grains blue mass, 3 grains pulverized opium, and 3 grains powdered ipecacuanha. Make into 24 pills.
4907. Vegetable Anti-bilious Pills. Take 54 grains pulverized compound extract of colocynth, and 6 grains podophyllin (extract of may-apple or mandrake root). Make into 24 pills.
4908. Anti-chill Pills. Take 20 grains chinoidine, 40 grains ferrocyanuret of iron, 20 grains oil of black pepper, and 1 grain arsenic. Make up into 20 pills.
4909. Aperient Pills. Take 8 grains nux-vomica, 12 grains extract of henbane, and 48 grains compound extract of colocynth. Make into 24 pills.
4910. Diuretic Pills. Take 40 grains powdered castile soap, 40 grains dry carbonate of soda, and 20 drops oil of juniper. Make into 20 pills.
4911. Gonorrhea Pills. Take 48 grains powdered cubebs, 24 grains solid balsam of copaiba (powdered), 12 grains sulphate of iron, and 36 grains Venice turpentine. Make into 24 pills.
4912. Mandrake Mercurial Pills. Take 6 grains podophyllin (extract of mandrake or may apple), and 48 grains blue pill. Make into 24 pills.
4913. Podophyllin, Aloes, and Iron Pills. Take 3 grains podophyllin, 15 grains socotrine aloes, 15 grains extract of nux-vomica, 45 grains dry sulphate of iron, 1*0 drops oil of cloves, and sufficient syrup of gum-arabic to make into a mass. Divide into 30 pills, Dose, 1 pill immediately before each meal. A good remedy for indigestion, with costiveness.
4914. Opium Pills. Mix 2 drachms opium and 24 grains soap with water, to make 120 pills.
4915. Iodide of Iron Pills. Mix 1 drachm sulphate of iron, 4 scruples iodide of potassium, 10 grains tragacanth, and J drachm sugar with syrup. Make into 40 pills.
 
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