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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.
Macerate for 7 days and filter through paper. This tincture is celebrated in the treatment ot chronic rheumatism and is frequently used with great effect in cases of amenorrhoea. It is stimula- tive and is decomposed in water, and should be given in mucilage or syrup. Dose is i or 2 drams. TINCTURE OF LOBELIA. Lobelia in fine powder 4 ounces. Dilute alcohol a sufficient quantity✪ Tincture of Lobelia. Moisten the powder with 2 ounces of dilute alcohol, pack it firmly in a conical percolator, and gradually pour upon it dilute alcohol until 2 pints of the tincture is obtained. This tincture pos- sesses the emetic and narcotic properties of lobelia, and is much used in asthma, in doses from i to 2 drams repeated every 3 or 4 hours. It has been used with benefit as a topical application in ery- sipelas. 1 66 DOMESTIC GUIDE. COMPOUND TINCTURE OF CAMPHOR. Opium, dried, in moderately fine powder i dram. Benzoic acid i dram. Camphor 4 grains. Oil of anise one-half dram. Clarified honey 2 ounces. Dilute alcohol 2 pints. Macerate for 7 days and filter through paper. This is the well-known paregoric elixer. It is a very pleasant anodyne and anti-spasmodic, much used to allay cough in chronic catarrh, asthma and chronic consumption, pertussis, etc., to relieve nausea and slight pains in the stomach and bowels, to check diarrhoea, and in infantile cases to procure sleep. Dose, for an infant from 5 to 25 drops, for an adult from i to 3 drams. TINCTURE RHUBARB AND SENNA. Rhubarb in moderately coarse powder i ounce. Senna in moderately coarse powder 2 drams. Red Sanders in moderately coarse powder 2 drams. Corianders in moderately coarse powder 30 grains. Fennel in moderately coarse powder 30 grains. Liquorice in moderately coarse powder 30 grains. Raisins deprived of their seeds 6 ounces. Dilute alcohol 3 pints✪ Tincture of Rhubarb and Senna. MEDICAL DIVISION. 167 Macerate for 14 days, express, and filter through paper. This is the stomachic so well known and so much used in this country under the name of Warner's gout cordial. It is a feeble purgative, usually ac- ceptable to the stomach, and well adapted to cases of costiveness, with gastric uneasiness, in persons of a gouty habit and accustomed to the free use of alcoholic drinks. The dose is from i to 2 fluid ounces 3"or4times daily. TINCTURE OF QUASSIA. Quassia in moderately fine powder 2 ounces. Dilute alcohol, a sufficient quantity. Moisten the powder with an ounce of dilute al- cohol, pack in a percolator, and gradually pour on dilute akohol until 2 pints of the tincture is ob- tained. It is a pure and intense bitter, and may be employed whenever a tonic is indicated. Dose, I to 2 drams. TINCTURE OF BLOOD-ROOT. Blood-root in moderately fine powder 4 ounces. Dilute alcohol, a sufficient quantity. Moisten the powder with an ounce of dilute al- cohol, pack in a conical percolator, and gradually pour on dilute alcohol until 2 pints of the tincture IS obtained. This will prove emetic in the dose of 3 or 4 drams, but it is rather intended to act as a stimu- lant to the stomach, expectorant or alterative, for l68 DOMESTIC GUIDE. which purpose from 30 to 60 drops may be given, repeated 3 or 4 times daily. TINCTURE OF VIRGINIA SNAKE-ROOT. Serpentaria in moderately fine powder 4 ounces. Dilute alcohol, a sufificient quantity.