Dr. M'Millan's formulas and domestic guide

Mix — Use as is necessary to procure a movement of bowels. NO. 2. Senna 1/4 ounce, steeped in 1 1/2 pints water. Strain, and then add i ounce Epsom salts. Ess. peppermint 15 drops. Use as required. » ASTRINGENT INJECTION. Flax-seed tea i pint Laudanum i dram. Mix — Use as required. NO. 2. White-oak bark 2 ounces. Poppy-heads 6 ounces. Steep in quart water for 2 hours. Strain for use. NO. 3. Tannin i dram. Laudanum one-half ounce. Sugar of lead i dram. Mucilage water I pint. Mix — Use as the case may need. Sometimes 4 ounces at a time is sufficient ; again it may be necessary to use more. Usually an amount varying from I to 3 ounces will be all that is needed at a time. They should be frequently repeated to do good and to get the desired effect, as the first one or two may be ejected at once. FOR ITCH OR SCABIES. Pulv. brimstone 2 drams. Turpentine 2 drams. Lard 2 ounces. Mix by melting the turpentine and lard together and stirring in the sulpur in fine powder. Apply night and morning after having washed off the partswell^ with warm water and castile soap. NO. 2. Sulphur I ounce. Carbonate of potash i dram. Lard 2 ounces. Mix — Anoint the parts well as above. HIVES. Sulphur I ounce. Cream of tartar 2 ounces. Mix — One-half tea-spoonful every 2 hours until bowels move. Bathe the body with saleratus water, and most cases will yield to the above treatment. PALSY. Tinct. lobelia ij4 ounces. Sulphuric ether 2 ounces. Tinct. cayenne pepper one-half ounce. Laudanum i ^ ounces. Chloroform one-half ounce. Mix — Bathe the parts affected with this liniment thoroughly every 3 or 4 hours, and take internally the following : Bromide pot. i dram. Acacia water 4 ounces. Mix — Tea-spoonful every 20 minutes until spasms let up or stop. Then give an active cathartic. Compound cath. pills are as good as anything, giving 3 every 4 hours until bowels respond properly, repeating treatment upon the first signs of a recurrence of the spasms ; and it is said that many cures have been wrought in this manner. RHEUMATISM. Gum guiac i ounce. Black cohosh-root i ounce. Poke-root I ^ ounces. Best rye whiskey I quart. Let stand lO or 12 days, shaking each day, and you then have one of the best remedies for constitutional rheumatism there is. Dose, a teaspoonful every 3 or 4 hours. NO. 2. Colchicum tinct. 2 ounces. Tinct. of black cohosh i ounce. Simple syrup 2 ounces. Mix — Tea-spoonful every 4 hours. NO. 3. Colchicum-seed 2 ounces. Black cohosh-root 2 ounces. Poke-root 2 ounces. Gum guiac 2 ounces. Blue flag root 2 ounces. Prickly-ash bark 2 ounces. Wintergreen leaves 2 ounces. Best gin 2 quarts. Mix and shake every day for 2 weeks, and then it is ready for use. Dose, tea-spoonful every 3 or 4 hours in sweetened water. NO. 4. Carbonate of lithia i dram. Divide into 8 powders, i to be taken before each meal. RHEUMATIC, CATHARTIC, AND DIURETIC. Holland gin i quart. Flour of sulphur 4 ounces. Tinct. juniper berries i ounce. Ess. wintergreen one-half ounce.