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19. Stimulating Ointment 
Is made, by adding to the same, camphor, turpentine, myrrh, or any of the warm 
gums/ 
20. Drying Ointment 
Is made by adding some white vitriol, well pounded, or sugar of lead, &c. 
21. Spirit of Mindererus ; Liquor Acetatis Ammoniac — 
Is vinegar and salt of hartshorn, saturated with each other, so that no efferves¬ 
cence takes place in adding fresh quantities of either. 
22. Anodyne Draught. 
Spirit of mindererus 2 drachms to 4, laudanum 25 to 40 drops, and a little water ; 
if given in fever to procure sleep, it is generally necessary to continue its use to the 
end of the disease: with spirit of mindererus 1 oz., or emetic tartar £ to £ of a 
grain, it generally proves sudorific. 
Charcoal powder is sometimes useful in dysentery, 20 grs. or 30, either alone or 
joined with some lemon-juice. Charcoal is good for purifying water; it also corrects 
meat beginning to spoil. 
23. Castor Oil. 
Dose, from 1 to 4 table-spoonsful in coffee, in peppermint, or other aromatic 
water, to be given in cases of colic, inflammation of the bowels, or whenever a 
quick operation is wanted. 
24. Camphor. 
Dose, 3 to 10 or 15 grs. repeated several times a-day: it is a powerful cordial, 
stimulant, and antispasmodic in typhus fevers, or other diseases of debility. It is not 
soluble in water, and is therefore best given in pills. In order to bring it to a 
powder it must be first sprinkled with a few drops of spirits of wine, or any strong 
spirits: it may be mixed with water, by previously rubbing the powder with mucil¬ 
age of gum arabic, or emulsion of almonds. Camphorated spirits are useful in 
rubbing to assuage pains ; and when mixed in powder with ointments, it is good for 
rubbing upon chronic indolent swellings. 
25. Paregoric Elixir 
Is merely opium, camphor, and essential oil; and is useful in colds. Dose, 30 
drops to 2 drachms. It is very good where there is a short and tickling cough, and 
then it may be taken merely in water; or better as follows: mucilage, syrup, each 
4 oz., paregoric elixir \ oz.; a little to be sipped frequently. 
26. Prepared Salt of Wormwood (or of Tartar) : Carhonas Potassce. 
For making the effervescent draught, under the head of Fever; or a very good cool¬ 
ing-mixture: of this salt take 1 dram, and of lemon-juice or vinegar oz., when the 
