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and Honduras sarsaparilla and golden seal roots, each, 1 oz. ; water, 1 gal » 

 alcohol, 1 pt., or good whiskey (if there is good (?) whiskey), 1 qt. DraEO 

 TiONS — Have all the roots and barks ground coarsely if you buy the dry articles 

 of the druggist, and if j'ou use the green ones, gathered yourseli, use half as much 

 more, and even twice as much will do no harm; bruise them with a mallet or 

 hammer, and steep all in the water 3 or 4 hours, covered; then strain and press 

 out all the virtue, and when cool, strain again to get rid of the tine sediment; 

 add the alcohol, or whiskey, and if it lacks any of 1 gal. make it up with wine- 

 worked cider, or wiiiskey. Bottle and keep in a cool place. Dose — According 

 to the size and robustness of the person, take from 1 to 3 table-spoonfuls a 

 short time before each meal. If costive, or considerable dyspeptic disturbances 

 of the stomach, see remarks and further directions below. 



II. Remarks and Further Directions if at all Costive. — In such cases take 

 n quart of this bitters and add ^ dr. of the alcoholic ex. of mandrake, dissolved 

 nicely in the bittei-s by rubbing in a cup with a tea-spoon; pour off into the 

 Itottle and put on more, as it is slow to dissolve. Dose — This can only be taken 

 In doses of from \ to 3 tea-spoon fuls 3 times daily, more or less, to keep the 

 bowels easy. The mandrake is very gentle in its cathartic and laxative proper- 

 ries, but it is very certain. 



III. If dyspeptic, take a pint bottle and pour into it fl. exs. of leptandra 

 and blue-flag, each, 1 dr.; and fl. ex. of balmony, i^ oz., and also iodide of 

 potash, 25 grs., and fill the bottle with the No. 1 Bitters, which has no man- 

 drake in it. Dose — Then take 1 table- spoonful for a dose, just before meals 

 and at bed-time; and if the urine is scanty or high-colored, 3 drs. each of fl. 

 exs, of buchu and uva ursi may also be put in. Dose — The same, as with the 

 ! bove bitters a«« a base, almost any condition can be met. 



1. DIARRHEA COMPOUND.— Compound spirits of lavender and 

 tinct. of rhubarb, each, 1 oz. ; laudanum, 3 drs. ; oil of cinnamon, 10 drops; mix. 

 Dose— One tea-spoonful every hour or two, for an adult, as needed, tintil 

 relieved; then 3 or 3 times a day only, for a day or two. 



2. Loose Bowels, Simple Remedy for. — For loose bowels, not 

 of long standing nor very severe, the following powder will prove effectual and 

 satisfactory, I have used it many times. Powdered opium and tannin, each, 

 5 grs. Mix thoroughly and divide into 10 powders. Dose— For an adult, 1 

 powder every 4 hours, or 3, or even every 2 hours, if needed to control the con- 

 dition; children of 8 to 13 years, half a powder only, and cf a less age — above 

 2 years — one-fourth only of a powder, 



3. For Infantile Diarrhea.— That is, for children at the breast or 

 less than 3 years old: Powdered rhubarb, 10 grs, ; calomel, 1 gr,; morphine, 

 % gr., and divide into 10 powders, 1 powder for a dose. No danger of saliva- 

 ting a child at the breast, 



4. Diarrhea of an Exhaustive Character, Dr. T. B. King's 

 Remedy for. — Blue mass and pulverized ipecac, of each 3 grs. ; prepared 

 chalk and pulverized rhubarb, each 10 grs.; pulverized opium, 3 to Idgra. 

 ,v':i; und make into 10 pilLs. Disections, Dose, etc. — For adults, bad case^ 



