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of each 1 drm., finely powdered ; extract of belladonna, 
12 grs.; powdered squills,1 drm. Mix by trituration, 
and work into a paste with careful and small additions of 
oxymel squills. Divide into pills as directed for No. 1. 
3. Draught.—Spirit of nitrous ether, or aromatic 
spirit of ammonia, 1 or 2 drms.; oxymel squills, 2 
drms.; tincture of belladonna, 1 drm. Mix, add 7 
drms. of linseed mucilage, and agitate thoroughly. Dose, 
4 to 1 drm. (30 to 60 drops). 
4. Ipecacuanha powder, 1 to 1} gr.; powdered 
thubarb, 1 to 3 grs.; compound squill pill, 1 to 2 grs.; 
powdered opium, $ to1 gr. Linseed meal and water, 
enough to make a bolus, to be given night and morning. 
5. Ipecacuanha powder and powdered opium,of each 
a grain. Confection enough to make a pill, to be given 
every six hours. 
6. An Expectorant Mixture for Chronic Cough.—Friar’s 
balsam, 10 to 15 drops; syrup of poppies, 1 drm. ; diluted 
sulphuric acid, 5 to ro drops ; mucilage, $oz.; water, 
3 0z. Mix, and give two or three times a day. 
7. An Expectorant in Recent Cough.— Tincture of 
lobelia, 10 to 15 drops ; almond emulsion, 1 oz. ; extract 
of conium, 2 to 3 grs.; ipecacuanha wine, 5 to ro drops. 
Mix, and give two or three times a day. 
Febrifuges.—Fever medicines or febrifuges comprise 
a large number of substances having more or less direct 
influence upon the heart and circulation, probably 
through the nervous system, and the excretory channels. 
They reduce existing febrile states by neutralising or 
destroying the causes, rendering the process of inflam- 
mation less powerful under their presence and action. 
1. Bolus.—Nitrate of potash, 1 drachm ; camphor, 15 
grains ; digitalis, 12 grains. Reduce each separately to 
powder, and afterwards triturate together, adding 1 
drachm of linseed meal, and treacle sufficient to make 
the mass. Divide into 12, 18 or 24 pills as needful. 
2. Substitute 12 grains of extract of belladonna for the 
digitalis in No. 1. 
3. Calomel, 1 to 3 grs.; digitalis, $ gr.; nitre, 3 to 
5ers. Confection to form a pill, to be given every night. 
