pill before each meal. This is
one of the best anti-dyspeptic pills known.
DYSPEPTIC LEY.
Take hickory ashes, one pint; soot, three or four ounces; boiling
water, two quarts. Pour on in a suitable vessel or crock, stir, and
let stand, over night, then pour off clear and bottle. Dose: Half a
teacupful three times a day, and if too strong weaken with water until
palatable. A sure remedy for dyspepsia.
AGUE PILLS.
Take quinine, twenty grains; piperine, ten grains; Dover's Powder, ten
grains; cayenne, ten grains. Mix, pulverize, and make into twenty
pills with a little gum arabic or extract of gentian or boneset. To be
taken at the rate of one pill an hour when there is no fever, or
during intermission, until twelve pills are taken, the balance to be
taken on the third day or next well day. Good as a remedy for the
chills or fever and ague.
CERTAIN REMEDY FOR THE AGUE OR INTERMITTENT FEVER.
Take quinine, twelve grains; ipecac and cayenne, of each six grains;
pulverized opium, three grains. Make into twelve pills with
precipitated extract of Peruvian bark, or if you cannot get this, use
either extract of dogwood or boneset, sufficient to form into pill
mass. Two or three pills to be taken every two or three hours, during
the well day or intermission, till all are taken. A very certain and
effectual remedy for the ague or intermittent fever.
FEVER POWDER.
Take finely pulverized gum myrrh, bloodroot, and lobelia seed, or
ipecac, of each half an ounce; gum camphor and nitre, of each two
drams. Pulverize, mix, and rub well together in a mortar, and bottle
for use. Dose: Three to five grains every hour of two during fever.
Good to allay the excitement, act on the skin and promote
perspiration; also a good expectorant powder in coughs, colds,
pneumonia, and oppressed breathing.
AGUE DROPS.
Take quinine, twenty grains; water, one ounce; sulphuric acid, twenty
drops. Mix in a vial. Dose: A teaspoonful every hour or every two
hours during the well day till all is taken. A certain cure for the
ague, or chills and fever.
SICK HEADACHE PILLS.
Take Socotrine aloes, gamboge, and castile soap, of each one dram;
ipecac and scammony, of each thirty grains; oil of anise, thirty
drops. Make into sixty pills with a little mucilage, gum arabic or
extract d
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