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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. 4Ethiops mineral, 2 to 5 grs.; powdered ginger, 
4 to 1 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 § 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 Diarrhea.—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 Diarrhea.—Dilute sulphuric acid, 3 
drms. ; tincture of opium, 2 drms.; compound tincture 
of bark, 1 oz.; water, 64 .0z. Mix. Two tablespoonfuls 
every four hours. 
3. Castor or linseed oil, 2 0z.; tincture of opium, 1 oz. 
Mix by agitation. Dose, a tablespoonful night and 
morning during the diarrhcea. 
4. Powdered opium, 4 to 2 grs.; prepared chalk, 5 to 
Io grs. ; catechu, 5 grs.; powdered ginger and powdered 
carraway seeds, of each, 1 to 3 grs. Mix, and form a 
pill with simple syrup, and give every three hours. 
5. “ Sanitas” Fluid in doses of ro to 30 or 80 drops, 
in cold whey, flour gruel, mixed with the usual medicine, 
is an invaluable agent in the protracted forms of diarrhoea 
attended with offensive odours. 
6. For Cramps or Spasms.—Powdered opium, 4 to 
2 gts.; spirit of chloroform 10 to 20 drops; 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 
