ON PURGING. 17 



Recipes — Drinks to check Purging. 



(RECIPE, No. 6.) 



A Drink to check Purging, 



Take — Red wine, half a pint ; 



Aromatic confection, one ounce ; 



Tincture of opium, and sweet spirits of nitre, 



of each half an ounce ; 

 Mix the whole in a pint of warm gruel and 



give it, or the following 



(RECIPE, No. 7.) 

 A Drink to check Purging, 



Take — Prepared chalk, and ginger, in powder, of 



each one ounce; 

 Peruvian bark, and tincture of opium, of 



each half an ounce; 

 Brandy, a quarter of a pint ; 

 Oil of peppermint, one drachm : 

 Mix, and give it in a pint and a half of warm 



gruel. 



Either of these drinks will be found powerful 

 in checking the progress of the physic. The 



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