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Dr. M'Millan's formulas and domestic guide

1882

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Presented as published in 1882. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Mix and let stand 10 days. Then strain, and a table-spoonful taken before meals will be found an excellent appetizer, and will be a permanent tonic, purifying the blood and toning up the liver. This MEDICAL DIVISION. 5$ has had a great reputation, and is undoubtedly one of the best prescriptions of the kind in use. FOR DIARRHEA AND SUMMER COM- PLAINT. Laudanum i ounce. Spirits of camphor i ounce. Essence peppermint i ounce. Hoffman's anodyne i ounce. Tincture of ginger one-half ounce. Tincture capsicum i dram. Mix — Dose, tea-spoonful every I or 2 hours in a little water. This is one of the very best. NO. 2. Dover's powders 15 grains. Gum arable pulverized i ounce. Tannin i dram✪ Dover's Powders. Mix — Divide into 24 powders, i to be taken in a little sugar and water every i or 2 hours until symptoms abate. DROPSY. Digitalis tincture one-half ounce. Tincture of Queen of the Meadow 2 ounces. Aqua pura 4 ounces. Mix — Dose, tea-spoonful every 4 hours. NO. 2. Horse radish root 4 ounces. Vinegar i quart. Mix and boil down to i pint. Strain and add 4 ounces of honey✪ Horse Radish Tincture. Dose, tea-spoonful every 2 hours. 54 DOMESTIC GUIDE. NO. 3- Foxglove I dram. Wild cherry bark i ounce. Juniper berries i ounce. Water i quart. Boil down to i pint. Strain and add i pint best Holland gin.✪ Foxglove Tincture Tea-spoonful every 4 hours. Is said to be very reliable. EMETICS. Lobelia 3 drams. Blood root one and one-half ounces. Skunk cabbage one and one-half ounces. Ipecac 2 drams. Capsici one-half dram✪ Emetics. Mix — Dose, put 2 tea-spoonfuls into 4 table- spoonfuls of hot water. Stir up well, then, when sufficiently cool, take a tea-spoonful every 5 or 10 minutes. NO. 2. Tincture lobelia 2 drams. Mustard, pulverized, 2 drams. Wine of ipecac 2 ounces. Mix — Dose, one-half tea-spoonful every 10 minutes until effect is had. NO. 3 — (powder). Ipecac, pulverized, one-half ounce Molasses 4 ounces. Water one-half pint✪ Ipecac Powder. Mix — Give a table-spoonful every quarter hour. MEDICAL DIVISION. 55 NO. 4. Zinci sulph. one-half ounce. Mustard 2 ounces. Water one-half pint. Mix — Dose, wine-glassful every 5 minutes. This has been highly recommended. I have never used it. Could not recommend it from personal knowl- edge, but it might be tried in urgent cases where the contents of the stomach should be ejected at once. ERYSIPELAS. Mur. tincture ferri i dram. Water 4 ounces✪ Erysipelas Tincture. Mix — Tea-spoonful every 3 hours. NO. 2. Quinine 30 grains. Doveri 15 grains. Mix — Divide into 15 powders. Give I every 3 hours. Poultices of buckwheat flour may be ap- plied externally, or of flax-seed meal. Some recommend a dressing of cotton batting carefully applied to the entire surface affected. Others use slippery-elm poultices; others willow bark poul- tices. All have their advocates and admirers, and all have been used with benefit at one time and another. The tincture of iodine painted to the parts affected has done well in my hands, together with tonics internally. NO. 3. Tincture mur. ferri one-half ounce. $6 DOMESTIC GUIDE. Acid carbolic one-half dram. Water 2}4 ounces. Mix — Dose tea-spoonful 3 times a day, largely- diluted with water. NO. 4. Quinine sulph. 20 grains. Carb. ferri one-half ounce. Doveri 12 grains. Mix — Divide into 30 powders, i every 2 or 3 hours. EYE-WATER AND WASH. Zinc sulph. 5 grains. Blue vitriol 5 grains. Fine salt 5 grains. White sugar 5 grains.