MISCELLANEOUS RECIPES.
Remedy for Diphtheria.— The treatment consists in thor-
oughly swabbing the back of the mouth and throat with a
wash made thus: Table salt, 2 drachms; black pepper, gold-
en seal, nitrate of potash, alum, i drachm each; mix and
pulverize; put into a teacup half full of water; stir well and
then fill up with good vinegar. Use every half hour, one, two,
and four hours, as recovery progresses. The patient may
swallow a little each time. Apply i ounce each of spirits of
turpentine, sweet oil, and aqua ammonia, mixed, every hour, to
the whole of the throat, and to the breast bone every four
hours, keeping flannel to the part.
Worm Lozenges. — Powdered lump sugar, 10 ounces; starch,
5 ounces; mix with mucilage; and to every ounce add 12 graini
calomel, divided into 20 grain lozenges✪ Worm Lozenges. Dose, two to six.
Soothing Syrup. — Take i pound of honey; add 2 table-
spoonfuls of paregoric, and the same of oil of anise seed; add
enough water to make a thick syrup, and bottle. For children
teething, dose, teaspoonful occasionally.
Infants* Syrup. — This syrup is made thus: i pound best box
raisins; 1-2 ounce anise seed; 2 sticks licorice; split the
raisins, pound the anise seed, and cut the licorice fine; add to
it 3 quarts of rain water✪ Infants' Syrup, and boil down to two quarts. Feed
three or four times a day, as much as the child will willingly
drink. The raisins are to strengthen, the anise is to expel the
wind, and the licorice as a physic.
Swaim*8 Vermifuge. — ^Wormseed, 2 ounces; valerian, rhu-
barb, pink-root, white agaric, of each i 1-2 ounces; boil in
sufficient water to yield 3 quarts of decoction; add to it 30
drops of tansy and 45 drops of oil of cloves, dissolved in a
quart of rectified spirits. Dose, i tablespoonful at night.
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. — Take 4 grains of the acetate of
morphia; 2 fluid drachms of tincture of bloodroot; a fluid
drachm each of antimonial wine and wine of ipecacuanha, and
3 fluid ounces of syrup of wild cherry. Mix.
Brown's Bronchial Troches. — Take i pound of pulverized
extract of licorice; i 1-2 pounds of pulverized sugar; 4 ouncei
of pulverized cubebs; 4 ounces of pulverized gum arable, and
I ounce of pulverized extract of conium. Mix.
Russia Salve. — Take equal parts of yellow wax and sweet
oil; melt slowly, carefully stirring; when cooling, stir in a small
quantity of glycerine. Good for all kinds of wounds, etc.
To Extract Teeth with Little or no Pain.— Tincture of
386 MEDICINAL.
aconite, chloroform, and alcohol, of each i ounce. Mix.
Moisten two pledgets of cotton with the liquid, and apply to
the gums on each side of the tooth to be extracted, holding
them in their place with pliers or other instruments for from
five to ten minutes, rubbing the gum freely inside and out.
Tooth Wash. — To Remove Blackness. — Pure muriatic
acid, I ounce; water, i ounce; honey, 2 ounces. Mix. Take
a tooth brush and wet it freely with the preparation, and briskly
rub the black teeth, and in a moment's time they will be per-
fectly white; then immediately wash out the mouth with water,
that the acid may not act upon the enamel of the teeth.
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MISCELLANEOUS RECIPES.
Remedy for Diphtheria.— The treatment consists in thoroughly swabbing the back of the mouth and throat with a wash made thus: Table salt, 2 drachms; black pepper, golden seal, nitrate of potash, alum, i drachm each; mix and pulverize; put into a teacup half full of water; stir well and then fill up with good vinegar. Use every half hour, one, two, and four hours, as recovery progresses. The patient may swallow a little each time. Apply i ounce each of spirits of turpentine, sweet oil, and aqua ammonia, mixed, every hour, to the whole of the throat, and to the breast bone every four hours, keeping flannel to the part.
Worm Lozenges. — Powdered lump sugar, 10 ounces; starch, 5 ounces; mix with mucilage; and to every ounce add 12 graini calomel, divided into 20 grain lozenges. Dose, two to six.
Soothing Syrup. — Take i pound of honey; add 2 tablespoonfuls of paregoric, and the same of oil of anise seed; add enough water to make a thick syrup, and bottle. For children teething, dose, teaspoonful occasionally.
Infants' Syrup. — This syrup is made thus: i pound best box raisins; 1-2 ounce anise seed; 2 sticks licorice; split the raisins, pound the anise seed, and cut the licorice fine; add to it 3 quarts of rain water, and boil down to two quarts. Feed three or four times a day, as much as the child will willingly drink. The raisins are to strengthen, the anise is to expel the wind, and the licorice as a physic.
Swaim's Vermifuge. — ^wormseed, 2 ounces; valerian, rhubarb, pink-root, white agaric, of each 1 1-2 ounces; boil in sufficient water to yield 3 quarts of decoction; add to it 30 drops of tansy and 45 drops of oil of cloves, dissolved in a quart of rectified spirits. Dose, i tablespoonful at night.
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. — Take 4 grains of the acetate of morphia; 2 fluid drachms of tincture of bloodroot; a fluid drachm each of antimonial wine and wine of ipecacuanha, and 3 fluid ounces of syrup of wild cherry. Mix.
Brown's Bronchial Troches. — Take i pound of pulverized extract of licorice; i 1-2 pounds of pulverized sugar; 4 ounces of pulverized cubebs; 4 ounces of pulverized gum arable, and I ounce of pulverized extract of conium. Mix.
Russia Salve. — Take equal parts of yellow wax and sweet oil; melt slowly, carefully stirring; when cooling, stir in a small quantity of glycerine. Good for all kinds of wounds, etc.
To Extract Teeth with Little or no Pain.— Tincture of
aconite, chloroform, and alcohol, of each i ounce. Mix. Moisten two pledgets of cotton with the liquid, and apply to the gums on each side of the tooth to be extracted, holding them in their place with pliers or other instruments for from five to ten minutes, rubbing the gum freely inside and out.
Tooth Wash. — To Remove Blackness. — Pure muriatic acid, I ounce; water, i ounce; honey, 2 ounces. Mix. Take a tooth brush and wet it freely with the preparation, and briskly rub the black teeth, and in a moment's time they will be perfectly white; then immediately wash out the mouth with water, that the acid may not act upon the enamel of the teeth.
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