Sweating Drops. — Ipecac, saffron, boneset and champhor gum, of each, 3 ounces; opium, i ounce; alcohol, 2 quarts. Let stand two weeks and filter. A teaspoonful in a cup of hot sage or catnip tea every hour until free perspiration is induced; excellent in colds, fevers, inflammations, etc. Bathe the feet in hot water at the same time. Syrup for Consumptives. — Of tamarac bark, take from the tree without rossing, i peck; spikenard root, 1-2 pound; dan- delion root 1-4 pound; hops, 2 ounces. Boil these sufficient to get the strength in two or three gallons of water; strain and boil down to one gallon; when blood warm, add three pounds of best honey, and 3 pints of best brandy; bottle and keep in a cool place. Dose, drink freely of it three times per day before meals, at least a gill or more; cure very certain. Female Complaints. — Pills to Promote Menstrual Secretion. — Take pills of aloes and myrrh, 4 drachms; com- pound iron pills, 280 grains. Mix, and form into 100 pills. Dose 2, twice a day. For Obstructed Menstruation. — Sulphate of iron, 60 grains; potassa (sub. carb.), 60 grains; myrrh, 2 drachms. Make them into three and one-half-grain pills; two to be taken three times a day, in the absence of fever. For painful men- struation, take pulverized rhei, 2 drachms; pulverized jalap, 2 drachms; pulverized opium, 2 drachms; syrup of poppies to mix. Divide into 200 pills, and tak€ night and morning. To check immoderate flow: Tincture of ergot, i ounce; liquor of ammonia, 3 drachms. Mix. Dose teaspoonful in water three times a day. Stimulant. — In Low Fevers and After Uterine Haem- orrhages.— Best brandy and cinnamon water, of each 4 fluid ounces; the yolks of 2 eggs, well beaten; loaf sugar, 1-2 ounce; oil of cinnamon, 2 drops. Mix. Dose, from one-half to one (fluid) ounce, as often as required. This makes both meat and drink. Of course, any other flavoring oils can be used, if preferred, in place of the cinnamon. For Female Complaints. — One of the best laxative pills for female complaints is macrotin and rhubarb, each 10 grains; extract of hyoscyamus, 10 grains; Castile soap, 40 grains. Scrape the soap, and mix well together, forming into common sized pills with gum solution. Dose, one pill at bedtime, or sufficiently often to keep the bowels in a laxative state. Anodyne for Painful Menstruation. — Extract of stra- monium and sulphate of quinine, each 16 grains; macrotin, 8 390 MEDICINAL grains; morphine, i grain. Make into 8 pills. Dose, one pill, repeating once or twice only, forty to fifty minutes apart, if the pain does not subside before this time. Pain must subside under the use of this pill, and costiveness is not increased. Powder for Excessive Flooding. — Gums kino and cate- chu, each I drachm; sugar of lead and alum, each 1-2 drachm. Pulverize all and thoroughly mix, then divide into 7 to 10 grain powders. Dose, one every two or three hours until checked, then less often merely to control the flow. Injection for Leucorrhea. — When the glairy mucus dis- charge is present, prepare a tea of hemlock inner bark and witch hazel (often called spotted alder) leaves and bark, have a female syringe large enough to fill the vagina, and inject the tea, twice daily; and occasionally in bad cases, say twice a week, inject a syringe of the following composition:

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Sweating Drops. — Ipecac, saffron, boneset and champhor gum, of each, 3 ounces; opium, i ounce; alcohol, 2 quarts. Let stand two weeks and filter. A teaspoonful in a cup of hot sage or catnip tea every hour until free perspiration is induced; excellent in colds, fevers, inflammations, etc. Bathe the feet in hot water at the same time. Syrup for Consumptives. — Of tamarac bark, take from the tree without crossing, i peck; spikenard root, 1-2 pound; dandelion root 1-4 pound; hops, 2 ounces. Boil these sufficient to get the strength in two or three gallons of water; strain and boil down to one gallon; when blood warm, add three pounds of best honey, and 3 pints of best brandy; bottle and keep in a cool place. Dose, drink freely of it three times per day before meals, at least a gill or more; cure very certain. Female Complaints. — Pills to Promote Menstrual Secretion. — Take pills of aloes and myrrh, 4 drachms; compound iron pills, 280 grains. Mix, and form into 100 pills. Dose 2, twice a day. For Obstructed Menstruation. — Sulphate of iron, 60 grains; potassa (sub. carb.), 60 grains; myrrh, 2 drachms. Make them into three and one-half-grain pills; two to be taken three times a day, in the absence of fever. For painful menstruation, take pulverized rhei, 2 drachms; pulverized jalap, 2 drachms; pulverized opium, 2 drachms; syrup of poppies to mix. Divide into 200 pills, and take night and morning. To check immoderate flow: Tincture of ergot, i ounce; liquor of ammonia, 3 drachms. Mix. Dose teaspoonful in water three times a day. Stimulant. — In Low Fevers and After Uterine Haemorrhages.— Best brandy and cinnamon water, of each 4 fluid ounces; the yolks of 2 eggs, well beaten; loaf sugar, 1-2 ounce; oil of cinnamon, 2 drops. Mix. Dose, from one-half to one (fluid) ounce, as often as required. This makes both meat and drink. Of course, any other flavoring oils can be used, if preferred, in place of the cinnamon. For Female Complaints. — One of the best laxative pills for female complaints is macrotin and rhubarb, each 10 grains; extract of hyoscyamus, 10 grains; Castile soap, 40 grains. Scrape the soap, and mix well together, forming into common sized pills with gum solution. Dose, one pill at bedtime, or sufficiently often to keep the bowels in a laxative state. Anodyne for Painful Menstruation. — Extract of stramonium and sulphate of quinine, each 16 grains; macrotin, 8 grains; morphine, i grain. Make into 8 pills. Dose, one pill, repeating once or twice only, forty to fifty minutes apart, if the pain does not subside before this time. Pain must subside under the use of this pill, and costiveness is not increased. Powder for Excessive Flooding. — Gums kino and catechu, each I drachm; sugar of lead and alum, each 1-2 drachm. Pulverize all and thoroughly mix, then divide into 7 to 10 grain powders. Dose, one every two or three hours until checked, then less often merely to control the flow. Injection for Leucorrhea. — When the glairy mucus discharge is present, prepare a tea of hemlock inner bark and witch hazel (often called spotted alder) leaves and bark, have a female syringe large enough to fill the vagina, and inject the tea, twice daily; and occasionally in bad cases, say twice a week, inject a syringe of the following composition:

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