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Cantharides powdered, - 1 ounce. 



Euphorbium powdered, - 2 drachms. 



Oil of turpentine, - - 1 ounce. 



Hog's lard, _ . - 6 ounces. 



When the blister has ceased to operate, and the 

 swelling occasioned by it has subsided, begin the 

 use of the liniment and sheep skins. 



Mr. Wilkinson has also found powerful anti- 

 spasmodics, given after the purgative drench is done 

 operating, very serviceable. The following is re- 

 commended : 



Crude opium, - - l drachm. 



Camphor, - - - 1 drachm. 



Assafoetida, - - * 2 drachms. 



Dissolve the opium in water, and the camphor 

 and assfoetida in spirits of wine ; then add aniseeds 

 powder sufficient to make a ball. 



Great care is required in giving this ball when 

 the jaws are much shut. The ball should be given 

 in small pieces on the end of a piece of whalebone 

 or cane ; or the ball may be dissolved in a pint of a 

 decoction of rue, and given as a drench morning 

 and evening with a small horn. Considerable time 

 and care should be taken in administering this me- 

 dicine, lest part of it be lost, or the convulsions in- 

 crease. 



Immediately after the ball or drench has been 

 given, dissolve one of the same balls in three pints 

 of a decoction of rue, and give it as a clyster morn- 

 ing and evening. The decoction is made thus. 



Rue, - - - three handfuls. 



Water, _ _ _ three quarts. 



Boiled down to two quarts and strained ofF. 



Great attention is requisite in increasing or dimi- 

 nishing the quantity of opium, according to the 

 violence of the spasms, and the effects it is observed 

 to produce in the system. 



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