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S. : Teaspoonful three times daily before meals. Shake. 

 Dissolve the powdered pellets in the liquid. 



3. — Zinc Oxide 80 grains 



Powdered Opium 40 grains 



Mix and make forty pills. 

 S. : One before meals. 



I used as excipient : 



Tragacanth, Powdered 10 grains 



Glycerin sufficient 



I used a large quantity of glycerin, as the mass hardens rapidly. 

 Glucose would have made a better excipient. 



4. — Lead Acetate. Crystals 12 grains 



Alum Crude, Powdered 8 grains 



Water to make Cc. 400 



Sig: Dilute with four parts of water. Externally. Poison. 

 Shake. 

 Dissolve each of the salts in half the water, filter each solution 

 separately, then mix. A finely divided precipitate is thus obtained. 



5. — Sodium Chloride 18 grains 



Carbolic Acid 8 minims 



Camphor 8 grains 



Eucalyptol (Sanders) 13 minims 



Water 2 pints 



Mix and filter. 

 Dissolve the camphor and the eucalyptol in half an ounce of al- 

 cohol. 



6. — Sodium Salicylate 2 drams 



Sodium Sulphate 12 drams 



Sodium Phosphate 10 drams 



M. S. : Teaspoonful in a glass of water every morning. 

 Use the exsiccated sulphate and phosphate of sodium. 



7. — Codeine 15 grains 



Terpin Hydrate 80 grains 



Syrup Hydriodic Acid 4 ounces 



M. S. : Teaspoonful every two hours. Shake. 



The terpin hydrate ought to be dissolved in alcohol, and some 

 glycerin added. An alcohole solution of codeine, i to 5, was used. 



