5fi APPENDIX. 



Clyster for Convulsions. 



Boil Ihcm in three quarts of water till reduced 

 to two ; strain it off, and add one ounce of 

 species of scordiura, and one ounce of tinc- 

 ture of benzoin : to be administered new 

 milk warm. 



In eases where the purgrng is violent, this clys- 

 ter may be forced up the rectum once or twice » 

 day, until the flux abates. 



(RECIPE, No. 197.) 



Caster for Convulsions, 



Taxe — Linseedysnd valerian root, of each four ounces ; 

 Boil them in three quarts of water to three 



pints ; add 

 Coarse sugar, and Epsom salts, of each four 



ounces ; 

 Nitre, one ounce ; 

 Assafcetida, half an ounce; 

 Opium two drachms : 

 Dissolve the whole in the above while hot, 



and apply it new milk warm. 



This is a most powerful clyster in all disorders 

 of the intestines, that are attended with pain and 

 convulsions, or spasms, in those parts, such as a 

 violent attack of the cholic, proceeding from an 

 obstruction in the urinary passage. 



