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To be used in the Cases enumerated under the head "Disoases," 1213.
1274. The following prescriptions, originally derived from various Prescrib-ers' Pharmacopoeias, embody the favorite remedies employed by the most em-inent physicians: -
1. Take of powdered rhubarb and chloride of mercury each four grains; syrup of ginger, sufficient to make two pills; at bedtime; in fevers and inflammations.
2. Powdered rhubard, socotrine aloes, and gum mastiche, each one scruple; make into twelve pills; one before and one after dinner.
3. Compound extract of colocynth, extract of jalap, and Castile soap, of each one scruple; make into twelve pills.
4. James's powder, five grains; calomel, three grains; in fevers.
5. Calomel, three grains; compound powder of scammony, twelve grains; in worms and tumid belly in children.
6. Powdered rhubarb, four grains; mercury and chalk, three grains; gin ger in powder, one grain; an alterative aperient for children.
7. Dried sulphate of magnesia, six drams; sulphate of soda, three drams; infusion of senna, seven ounces; tincture of jalep, and compound tincture of cardamoms, each half an ounce; in acute diseases generally; take two tablespoonfuls every four hours, till it operates freely.
8. Nitrate of potass, one dram and a half; spirits of nitric aether, half an ounce; camphor mixture, and the spirit of mindererus, each four ounces; in fevers, etc.; two tablespoonfuls three times a day.
9. Spirit of nitric aether, three drams; dilute nitric acid, two drams; syrup, three drams; camphor mixture, seven ounces; in fevers, etc, with debility, dose as last.
10. Spirit of mindererus and camphor mixture, each three ounces and a half; wine of antimony, one dram and a half; wine of ipecacuanha, one dram and a half; syrup of Tolu, half an ounce; dose as last.
11. Decoction of broom, half a pint; cream of tartar, one ounce; tincture of squills, two drams; in dropsies, a third part three times a day.
12. Pills of soap and opium, five grains for a dose as directed.
13. Compound powder of ipecacuanha, seven to twelve grains for a dose, as directed.
14. Battley's solution of opium, from ten to forty drops; camphor mixture, an ounce and a half; in a draught at bedtime.'
15. Ammoniated tincture of valerian, six drams; camphor mixture, seven ounces; a fourth part three times a day; in spasmodic and hysterical disorders.
16. Disulpbate of quina, half a dram; dilute sulphuric acid, twenty drops; compound infusion of roses, eight ounces; two tablespoonfuls every four hours, in intermittent fever, during the absence of the paroxysm.
17. Almond mixture, seven ounces and a half: wine of antimony and ipecacuanha, of each "one dram and a half; a tablespoonful every four hours, in cough with fever, etc.
18. Calomel, one grain; powdered white sugar, two grains; to make a powder to be placed on the tongue every two or three hours.
19. Antimony and ipecacuanha, wines of each an ounce; a teaspoonful every ten minutes till it vomits.
20. Compound infusion of roses, seven ounces; tincture of myrrh, one ounce.
21. Decoction of bark, six ounces; aromatic confection, one dram; tincture of opium, five drops.
22. Infusion of orange peel, seven ounces; tincture of hops, half an ounce; and a dram of carbonate of soda - two tablespoonfuls twice a day.
23. Blue pill, four grains; opium, half a grain: to be taken three times a day.
 
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