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effervescence has ceased, add peppermint-water 4 oz.; administer 1 or 2 spoonsful of 
this every 2 hours. * 
27. Concrete Lemon Acid ; Acidum Citricum. 
A substitute for lemon-juice: 1 scruple of this to 25 grs. of salt of tartar. 
28. Essence of Peppermint. 
Very useful in flatulent colic ; also a good addition to purgatives of rhubarb, or in 
aperient pills, &c. 
29. Yellow Basilicon. 
Ointment; stimulating and drawing. 
30. Turner's Cerate. 
Healing, and rather drying. 
31. Opodeldoc. 
Mem. — When sores or wounds are filled up, and only want skinning over, lime- 
water produces this effect. It is made by merely putting burnt lime into water. 
The clear liquor only is to be used : it is spoiled by exposure to the air. 
"fake common injection apparatus ; but the pipes white metal. Also have good 
lancets, scissars, &c. 
Fever. 
In fever it is in general best to begin by an emetic, (No. 2.) especially if there be 
a loathing at the stomach ; follow this up by a brisk purge (No. 11.): if the vomit 
produce pain, or cramps at the stomach, give 15 or 20 drops of laudanum, with 10 
or 15 drops of spirit of lavender (No. 12.): if the pulse be very strong, great head¬ 
ache, face or eyes very red, bleed to 10 oz., or 15, or 24, according to the violence 
of the symptoms and the strength of the patient: if the skin be very hot and dry, and 
great thirst, dash a bucket of cold water or two over the whole body, drying it well 
immediately ; this may be repeated twice or thrice a-day. In case this treatment does 
not cut short the disease at once, it will most probably run its full regular course. 
Great attention must be paid to moderate the fever and keep up the strength of 
the patient: the first is done by giving all kinds of cooling drinks, lemonade, vinegar, 
cream of tartar; giving also ripe acid fruits, 8tc. &c. For medicines, small doses of 
antimonials; viz. 2 grs. of antimonial powder 3 or 4 times a-day, (be cautious at 
the same time to use nothing in which is cream of tartar,) or emetic tartar 1J grs. in 
8 oz. of water; 1 oz. to be given every 3 or 4 hours: if it brings on sickness, every 
6 or more; or spirit of mindererus 2 or 3 drachms, with as much water, every 2, 3, 
