This section is from the book "Facts Worth Knowing", by Robert Kemp Philip. Also available from Amazon: Inquire Within for Anything You Want to Know.
Dissolve a scruple of salt of tartar in a quarter pint of water; add to it ten grains of cochineal; sweeten it with sugar. Give to an infant a fourth part of a table-spoonful four times a day; two years old half a spoonful; from four years a tablespoonful. Great care is required in the administration of medicines to infants. We can assure pa-ternal inquirers that the foregoing may be depended upon.
 
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