120 Materia Medica. 



draught, in which case the lard or palm-oil is omitted, 

 and the dry powders are mixed in a tablespoonful of 

 linseed tea or thin gruel. 



2. ^thiops mineral, 2 to 5 grs. ; powdered ginger, 

 \ to I gr. ; powdered rhubarb, 1 to 3 grs. Mix, and 

 form a pill with syrup, to be given every evening. 



3. Plummer's pill, 2 to 5 grs. ; extract of hemlock, 

 2 to 5 grs. Mix, and give every night. 



Such remedies are usually made use of during slight 

 febrile conditions, attended with defective appetite, slight 

 liver disorder, &c. 



Anodynes. — These are remedies which allay pain, and 

 soothe the nervous system. In this way they remove 

 spasm, as in colic, diarrhoea, tetanus, &c. Opium, bella- 

 donna, hyoscyamus, &c., are chief examples. 



1. For Simple Diarrhoea. — Prepared chalk, 2 drms. ; 

 aromatic confection, 1 drm. ; tincture of opium, 5 to 8 

 drms. ; rice water, or cool flour gruel, 8 oz. Mix. Dose, 

 two tablespoonfuls after each fluid evacuation. 



2. Continued Diarrhoea. — Dilute sulphuric acid, 3 

 drms.; tincture of opium, 2 drms.; compound tincture 

 of bark, i oz. ; water, 6 J oz. Mix. Two tablespoonfuls 

 every four hours. 



3. Castor or linseed oil, 2 oz.; tincture of opium, i oz, 

 Mix by agitation. Dose, a tablespoonful night and 

 morning during the diarrhoea. 



4. Powdered opium, \ to 2 grs. ; prepared chalk, 5 to 

 10 grs. ; catechu, 5 grs.; powdered ginger and powdered 

 carraway seeds, of each, i to 3 grs. Mix, and form a 

 pill with simple syrup, and give every three hours. 



5. " Sanitas" Fluid in doses of 10 to 30 or 80 drops, 

 in cold whey, flour gruel, mixed with the usual medicine, 

 is an invaluable agent in the protracted forms of diarrhcea 

 attended with off"ensive odours. 



6. For Cramps or Spasms. — Powdered opium, J to 



2 grs. ; spirit of chloroform 10 to 20 drops j camphor 



3 to 10 grs. Mix, and give in a tablespoonful of 

 glycerine. 



Antiseptics. — Antiseptics, or Antiputrescents, are 

 agents which prevent the septic or putrescent stage, and 



