Dose: 20 drops in a little water once an hour.
CORNS.--A SURE CURE AND PAINLESS ERADICATION.--Extract of Cannabis
Indicus ten grs., Salicylic Acid 6 grs., Collodion one oz. Mix and
apply with a camel's hair pencil so as to form a thick covering over
the corn for 3 or 4 nights. Take a hot foot bath and the corn can
easily be removed with the aid of a knife.
MAGIC OIL.--One gallon Sweet Oil, two ozs. Oil Hemlock, two ozs. Oil
Organum, two ozs. Chloroform, four ozs. Spirits Ammonia. Mix. Let it
stand 24 hours and it is ready for use. Dose, internally, one
teaspoonful for adults. Bathe the affected parts well. This is a great
remedy for aches and pains, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, and all nervous and
inflammatory diseases.
CURE FOR SORE THROAT IN ALL ITS DIFFERENT FORMS.--Two ozs. Cayenne
Pepper, one oz. common Salt, one-half pint of Vinegar. Warm over a slow
fire and gargle the throat and mouth every hour. Garlic and Onion
poultice applied to the outside. Castor Oil, one spoonful to keep the
bowels open.
DROPS OF LIFE.--One oz. Gum Opium, one drm. Gum Kino, forty grs. Gum
Camphor, one-half ounce Nutmeg powdered, one pint French Brandy. Let
stand from one to ten days. Dose, from 30 to 40 drops for an adult;
children, half doses. This is one of the most valuable preparations in
the Materia Medica, and will in some dangerous hours, when all hope is
fled, and the system is racked with pain, be the soothing balm which
cures the most dangerous disease to which the human body is
liable--flux, dysentery and all summer complaints.
CATARRH, POSITIVE CURE.--Carbolic Acid, ten to twenty drops; Vaseline,
one to two ozs. Mix and use with an atomizer 3 or 4 times per day.
COUGH DROPS.--Tinc. Aconite 5 drops, Tinc. Asclepias one drm.,
Glycerine two ozs., Syrup of Wild Cherry. Mix and take a teaspoonful
every 40 minutes until relieved.
EYE WATER.--Table Salt and White Vitriol, each one teaspoonful. Heat
them on earthen dish until dry. Now add them to soft water one-half
pint. White Sugar one teaspoonful, Blue Vitriol a piece as large as a
common pea. Should this be too strong add a little more water. Apply to
the eye 3 or 4 times a day.
TO REMOVE TAPE WORM.--Let the patient miss two meals. Give two
teaspoonfuls powdered Kamala. Should the bowels not move within two
and-a half hours, give another teaspoonful of the Kamala. You may
follow this in two hours by from half to one oz. Castor Oil. This is a
positive cure for Tape Wo
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