Red Mixture
From The complete Indian housekeeper & cook, 1898
Good for diarrhoea and fever.
Presented as published in 1898. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from The complete Indian housekeeper & cook (1898) by Flora Annie Webster Steel, page 117. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Red Mixture {for diarrhmi, green motions, to be followed up with doses of aro7natic chalk. Good in fever). — Rhubarb, 12 grains ; calcined magnesia, 2 scruples ; oil of aniseed, G drops ; sugar, 1 drachm ; compound tincture of lavender, ^ drachm ; sal volatile, \ drachm ; water, oz. One teaspoonful three times a day. Powders {for infants in green motions cau.'ted hg indige.stion). — Carbonate of soda, 24 grains ; rhubarb, 12 grains ; bismuth, G grains. Make twelve powders. One every third hour. In dysen- tery (simple) add Ipecacuanha according to age. Diaphoretic Mixture. — Sweet spirits of nitre, 1 drachm ; nitrate of potash, 1 scruple; liquor of acetate of ammonia, 4 drachms; cani|)hor water, 4 drachms; water, 1^ oz. A teaspoonful every third hour for a child from two to four years old. Quinine Mixture. — Sulphate quinine, 5 grains; hydrobromic acid, ^ drachm ; water, 1 oz
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