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450. Regular Mending
All the Mending in the house should be done once a week if possible.
451. Never put out Sewing.
If it be not possible to do it in your own family, hire some one to come to the house and work with them.
452. White Spots on Furniture
A warming-pan full of coals, or a shovel of coals, held over varnished furniture, will take out white spots. Care should be taken not to hold the pan near enough to scorch; the place to which heat has thus been applied, should be rubbed with a flannel while warm.
453. Acid Fading
Sal-Volatile or hartshorn will restore colours taken out by acid. It may be dropped upon any garment without doing harm.
454. New Iron
New iron should be very gradually heated at first. After it has become inured to the heat, it is not as likely to crack.
455. Before Using a Brass Kettle
Clean a brass kettle, before using it for cooking, with salt and vinegar.
456. Shaking Carpets
The oftener carpets are shaken the longer they wear; the dirt that collects under them grinds out the threads.
457. Saving Rags
All linen rags should be saved, for they are useful in sickness. If they have become dirty and worn by cleaning silver, &c., wash them and scrape them into lint.
458. Softening Washing-Water
If you are troubled to get soft water for washing, fill a tub or barrel half full of wood ashes, and fill it up with water, so that you may have ley whenever you want it. A gallon of strong ley, put into a great kettle of hard water, will make it as soft as rain water. Some people use pearlash, or potash; but this costs something, and is very apt to injure the texture of the cloth.
459. Protecting Knife-Handles
Do not let knives be dropped into hot dish-water. It is a good plan to have a large tin pot to wash them in, just high enough to wash the blades
without wetting
the handles.
460. Do It Well
It is better to accomplish perfectly a very small amount of work, than to half do ten times as much.
Be Temperate in All Things.
461. Polishing Knives with Charcoal
Charcoal Powder will be found a very good thing to give knives a first-rate polish.
462. Preventing Wear
A bonnet and trimmings may be worn a much longer time, if the dust be brushed well off after walking.
463. Good Examples
Much knowledge may be obtained by the good housewife observing how things are managed in well-regulated families.
464. Apple Pips
Apples intended for dumplings should not have the core taken out of them, as the pips impart a delicious flavour to the dumpling.
465. Rice Pudding
A rice pudding is excellent without either eggs or sugar, if baked gently: it keeps better without eggs.
466. "Wilful Waste makes Woeful Want."
Do not cook a fresh joint whilst any of the last remains uneaten —hash it up, and with gravy and a little management, eke out another day's dinner.
467. Shanks of Mutton
The shanks of mutton make a good stock for nearly any kind of gravy, and they are very cheap—a dozen may be had for a penny, enough to make a quart of delicious soup.
468. Lack of Fresh Air
Thick curtains, closely drawn around the bed, are very injurious, because they not only confine the effluvia thrown off from our bodies whilst in bed, but interrupt the current of pure air.
469. Regular Accounting
Regularity in the payment of accounts is essential to housekeeping. All tradesmen's bills should be paid weekly, for then any errors can be detected whilst the transactions are fresh in the memory.
470. Enough Talk
Allowing children to talk incessantly is a mistake. We do not mean to say that they should be restricted from talking in proper seasons, but they should be taught to know when it is proper for them to cease.
471. Blacking for Leather Seats, &c.
Beat well the yolks of two eggs and the white of one: mix a tablespoonful of gin and a teaspoonful of sugar, thicken it with ivory black, add it to the eggs, and use as common blacking; the seats or cushions being left a day or two to harden. This is good for dress boots and shoes
472. Black Reviver for Black Cloth
Bruised galls, one pound; logwood, two pounds; green vitriol, half a pound; water, five quarts. Boil for two hours, and strain. Use to restore the colour of black cloth.
473. Enamel Paint
Special preparations of paint, styled "enamel," are now made, suitable for both useful and decorative purposes—garden stands, indoor furniture or ornaments, baths, &c. They are ready mixed in a variety of shades, can be easily applied, and dry with a hard glossy surface.
Keep the Head Cool and the Feet Warm.
474. Hints for Home Comfort
Eat slowly and you will not overeat.
Keeping the feet warm will prevent headaches.
Late at breakfast—hurried for dinner—cross at tea.
A short needle makes the most expedition in plain sewing.
Between husband and wife little attentions beget much love.
Always lay your table neatly, whether you have company or not.
Put your balls or reels of cotton into little bags, leaving the ends out.
Whatever you may choose to give away, always be sure to keep your temper.
Dirty windows speak to the passer-by of the negligence of the inmates.
In cold weather a leg of mutton improves by being hung three, four, or five weeks.
When meat is hanging, change its position frequently, to equally distribute the juices.
There is much more injury done by admitting visitors to invalids than is generally supposed.
Matches, out of the reach of children, should be kept in every bedroom. They are cheap enough.
Apple and suet dumplings are lighter when boiled in a net than a cloth. Skim the pot well.
When sheets or chamber towels get thin in the middle, cut them in two, sew the selvedges together, and hem the sides.
When you are particular in wishing to have precisely what you want from a butcher, go and buy it yourself.
A flannel petticoat will wear as nearly as long again, if turned hind part before, when the front begins to wear thin.
People in general are not aware how very essential to the health of the inmates is the free admission of light into their houses.
When you dry salt for the table, do not place it in the salt cellars until it is cold, otherwise it will harden into a lump.
Never put away plate, knives and forks, &c., uncleaned, or great inconvenience will arise when the articles are wanted.
Feather beds should be opened every third year, the ticking well dusted, soaped, and waxed, the feathers dressed and returned.
Persons of defective sight, when threading a needle, should hold it over something white, by which the sight will be assisted.
In mending sheets and shirts, put in pieces sufficiently large, or in the first washing the thin parts give way, and the work done is of no avail.
When reading by candle-light, place the candle behind you, that the rays may pass over your shoulder on to the book. This will relieve the eyes.
A wire fire-guard, for each fire-place in a house, costs little, and greatly diminishes the risk to life and property. Fix them before going to bed.
In winter, get the work forward by daylight, to prevent running about at night with candles. Thus you escape grease spots, and risks of fire.
Be at much pains to keep your children's feet dry and warm. Don't bury their bodies in heavy flannels and wools, and leave their arms and legs naked.
Apples and pears, cut into quarters and stripped of the rind, baked with a little water and sugar, and eaten with boiled rice, are capital food for children.
A leather strap, with a buckle to fasten, is much more commodious than a cord for a box in general use for short distances; cording and uncording is a tedious job.
After washing, overlook linen, and stitch on buttons, hooks and eyes, &c.; for this purpose keep a "house-wife's friend," full of miscellaneous threads, cottons, buttons: hooks, &c.
For ventilation open your windows both at top and bottom. The fresh air rushed in one way, while the foul escapes the other. This is letting in your friend and expelling your enemy.
There is not any real economy in purchasing cheap calico for night-shirts. Cheap calico soon wears into holes, and becomes discoloured in washing.
Sitting to sew by candle-light at a table with a dark cloth on it is injurious to the eyesight. When no other remedy presents itself, put a sheet of white paper before you.
Persons very commonly complain of indigestion; how can it be wondered at, when they seem, by their habit of swallowing their food wholesale, to forget for what purpose they are provided with teeth.
Never allow your servants to put wiped knives on your table, for, generally speaking, you may see that that have been wiped with a dirty cloth. If a knife is brightly cleaned, they are compelled to use a clean cloth.
There is not anything gained in economy by having very young and inexperienced servants at low wages; the cost of what they break, waste, and destroy, is more than an equivalent for higher wages, setting aside comfort and respectability.
No article in dress tarnishes so readily as black crape trimmings, and few things injure it more than damp; therefore, to preserve its beauty on bonnets, a lady in nice mourning should in her evening walks, at all seasons of the year, take as her companion an old parasol to shade her crape.
Guard the Foot, and the Head will Seldom Harm.
475. Domestic Pharmacopœia
In compiling this part of our hints, we have endeavoured to supply that kind of information which is so often wanted in the time of need, and cannot be obtained when a medical man or a druggist is not near. The doses are all fixed for adults, unless otherwise specified. The various remedies are arranged in sections, according to their uses, as being more easy for reference,
476. Collyria, or Eye Washes
477. Alum
Dissolve half a drachm of alum in eight ounces (half a pint) of water.
Use
as astringent wash. When twice as much alum and only half the quantity of water are used, it acts as a discutient, but not as an eye-water.
Note
that this and the following washes are for
outward application
only.
478. Common
Add half an ounce of diluted acetic acid to three ounces of decoction of poppy heads.
Use
as anodyne wash.
479. Compound Alum
Dissolve alum and white vitriol, of each one drachm, in one pint of water, and filter through paper.
Use
as astringent wash.
480. Zinc and Lead
Dissolve white vitriol and acetate of lead, of each seven grains, in four ounces of elder-flower water; add one drachm of laudanum (tincture of opium), and the same quantity of spirit of camphor, then strain.
Use
as detergent wash.
481. Acetate of Zinc
Dissolve half a drachm of white vitriol in five ounces of water. Dissolve two scruples of acetate of lead in five ounces of water. Mix these solutions, then set aside for a short time, and afterwards filter.
Use
as astringent wash; this forms a most valuable collyrium.
482. Sulphate of Zinc
Dissolve twenty grains of white vitriol in a pint of water or rose water.
Use
for weak eyes.
483. Zinc and Camphor
Dissolve a scruple of white vitriol in ten ounces of water; add one drachm of spirit of camphor, and strain.
Use
as a stimulant.
484. Compound Zinc
Dissolve fifteen grains of white vitriol in eight ounces of camphor water (
Mistura camphoræ
), and the same quantity of decoction of poppy heads.
Use
as anodyne and detergent wash: it is useful for weak eyes.
485. Confections and Electuaries
486. Purpose
Confections
are used as vehicles for the administration of more active medicines, and
Electuaries
are made for the purpose of rendering some remedies palatable. Both should be kept in closely covered jars.
487. Almond Confection
Remove the outer coat from an ounce of sweet almonds, and beat them well in a mortar with one drachm of powdered gum arabic, and half an ounce of white sugar.
Use
to make a demulcent mixture known as "almond emulsion."
488. Alum Confection
Mix two scruples of powdered alum with four scruples of treacle.
Dose
, half a drachm.
Use
as astringent in sore throat, relaxed uvula, and ulcerations of mouth.
489. Orange Confection
Take one ounce of the freshly rasped rind of orange, and mix it with three ounces of white sugar, and beat together till perfectly incorporated.
Dose
, from one drachm to one ounce.
Use
as a gentle stomachic and tonic, and as a vehicle for administering tonic powders.
490. Black Pepper Confection
Take of black pepper and elecampane root, each one ounce; fennel seeds, three ounces; honey and sugar, of each two ounces. Rub the dry ingredient to a fine powder, and when the confection is wanted, add the honey, and mix well.
Dose
, from one to two drachms.
Use
in hæmorrhoids, or piles.
Better Pay the Cook than the Doctor.
491. Cowhage
Mix in treacle as much of the fine hairs or spiculæ of cowhage as the treacle will take up.
Dose
, a teaspoonful every morning and evening.
Use
as an anthelmintic.
492. Senna Confection. No. 1.
Take of senna, powdered, four ounces; figs, half a pound, viassia pulp, tamarind pulp, and the pulp of prunes, each four ounces; coriander seeds, powdered, two ounces; liquorice root, one ounce and a half; sugar, one pound and a quarter; water, one pint and a half. Rub the senna with the coriander, and separate, by sifting, five ounces of the mixture. Boil the water, with the figs and liquorice added, until it is reduced to one half; then press out and strain the liquor. Evaporate the strained liquor in a jar by boiling until twelve fluid ounces remain; then add the sugar, and make a syrup. Now mix the pulps with the syrup, add the sifted powder, and mix well.
Use
as a purgative.
493. Senna Confection. No. 2.
A more simple confection, but equally efficacious, may be made in the following manner. Infuse an ounce of senna leaves in a pint of boiling water, pouring the water on the leaves in a covered mug or jug, or even an old earthenware teapot. Let the infusion stand till it is cold, then strain off the liquor, and place it in a saucepan or stewpan, adding to it one pound of prunes. Let the prunes stew gently by the side of the fire till the liquor is entirely absorbed.
Use
as a purgative or laxative, giving half a teaspoonful to little children and a teaspoonful to children over ten years of age.
494. Castor Oil and Senna Confection
Take one drachm of powdered gum arabic, and two ounces of confection of senna, and mix, by gradually rubbing together in a mortar, with half an ounce of castor oil.
Dose
, from half an ounce to an ounce.
Use
as a purgative.
495. Sulphur and Senna Confection
Take of sulphur and sulphate of potash, each half an ounce; confection of senna, two ounces; oil of aniseed, twenty minims; mix well.
Dose
, from one to two drachms.
Use
as a purgative.
496. Cream of Tartar Confection
Take one ounce of cream of tartar, one drachm of jalap, and half a drachm of powdered ginger; mix into a thick paste with treacle.
Dose
, two drachms.
Use
as a purgative.
497. Antispasmodic Electuary
Take six drachms of powdered valerian and orange leaves, mixed and made into an electuary, with a sufficient quantity of syrup of wormwood.
Dose
, from one to two drachms, to be taken two or three times a day.
498. Decoctions
These should only be made as they are wanted; pipkins or tin saucepans should be used for the purpose; and no decoction should be boiled longer than ten minutes.
499. Chimaphila
Take one ounce of pyrola (chimaphila, or winter-green), and boil it in a pint and a half of water until the water is reduced to one pint; then strain.
Dose
, from one to two ounces, four times a day.
Use
in dropsies, as a diuretic.
500. Logwood
Boil one ounce and a half of bruised logwood in two pints of water until the water is reduced to one pint; then add one drachm of bruised cassia, and strain.
Dose
, from one to two ounces.
Use
as an astringent.
501. Dandelion
Take two ounces of the freshly-sliced root, and boil in a quart of water until it comes to a pint.
Dose
, from two to four ounces, that is to say, from an eighth of a pint to a quarter of a pint.
Use
for sluggish state of the liver.
502. Embrocations and Liniments
These remedies are used externally as local stimulants, to relieve deep seated inflammations when other means cannot he employed, as they are more easily applied locally.
503. Anodyne and Discutient
Take two drachms of scraped white soap, half a drachm of extract of henbane, and dissolve them by a gentle heat in six ounces of olive oil.
Use
for glandular enlargements which are painful and stubborn, about half an ounce to be well rubbed into the part twice a day.
504. Strong Ammoniated
Add one ounce of strong liquid ammonia to two ounces of olive oil, shake well together until properly mixed.
Use
as a stimulant in rheumatic pains, paralytic numbnesses, chronic glandular enlargements, lumbago, sciatica, &c.
Note
that this embrocation must be used with care, and only employed in very obstinate cases.
505. Compound Ammoniated
Add six drachms of oil of turpentine to the strong ammoniated liniment above.
Use
for the diseases mentioned in the preceding paragraph and chronic affections of the knee and ankle joints.
506. Lime and Oil
Take equal parts of common linseed oil and lime water and shake well.
Use
for burns, scalds, sun peelings, &c.
507. Camphorated
Take half an ounce of camphor and dissolve it in two ounces of olive oil.
Use
as a stimulating and soothing application for stubborn breasts, glandular enlargements, dropsy of the belly, and rheumatic pains.
508. Soap Liniment with Spanish Flies
Take three ounces and a half of soap liniment, and half an ounce of tincture of Spanish flies, mix and shake well.
Use
as stimulant to chronic bruises, sprains, rheumatic pains, and indolent swellings.
509. Turpentine
Take two ounces and a half of resin cerate, and melt it by standing the vessel in hot water, then add one ounce and a half of oil of turpentine, and mix.
Use
as stimulant to ulcers, burns, scalds, &c.
510. Enemas
These are a peculiar kind of medicines, administered by injecting them into the rectum or outlet of the body. The intention is either to empty the bowels, kill worms, protect the lining membrane of the intestines from injury, restrain copious discharges, allay spasms in the bowels, or to nourish the body. These clysters, or glysters, are administered by means of bladders and pipes, or a proper apparatus.
511. Laxative
Take two ounces of Epsom salts, and dissolve in three quarters of a pint of gruel, or thin broth, with an ounce of olive oil.
512. Nutritive
Take twelve ounces of strong beef tea, and thicken with hartshorn shavings or arrowroot.
513. Turpentine
Take half an ounce of oil of turpentine, the yolk of one egg, and half a pint of gruel. Mix the turpentine and egg, and then add the gruel.
Use
as an anthelmintic.
514. Common
Dissolve one ounce of salt in twelve ounces of gruel.
515. Castor Oil
Mix two ounces of castor oil with one drachm of starch, then rub them together, and add fourteen ounces of thin gruel.
Use
as a purgative.
516. Opium
Rub three grains of opium with two ounces of starch, then add two ounces of warm water.
Use
as an anodyne in colic, spasms, &c.
517. Oil
Mix four ounces of olive oil with half an ounce of mucilage and half a pint of warm water.
Use
as a demulcent.
518. Asafœtida
Mix one drachm of the tincture of asafœtida in a pint of barley water.
Use
as an anthelmintic, or in convulsions from teething.
519. Gargles
These are remedies used to stimulate chronic sore throats, or a relaxed state of the swallow, or uvula.
520. Acidulated
Mix one part of white vinegar with three parts of honey of roses, and twenty-four of barley water.
Use
in chronic inflammation of the throat, malignant sore throat, &c.
521. Astringent
Take two drachms of roses and mix with eight ounces of boiling water, infuse for one hour, strain, and add one drachm of alum and one ounce of honey of roses.
Use
for severe sore throat, relaxed uvula, &c.
Violent Passions Lead to Great Depressions.
522. For Salivation
Mix from one to four drachms of bruised gall-nuts with a pint of boiling water, and infuse for two hours, then strain and sweeten.
523. Tonic and Stimulant
Mix six ounces of decoction of bark with two ounces of tincture of myrrh, and half a drachm of diluted sulphuric acid.
Use
in scorbutic affections.
524. Alum
Dissolve one drachm of alum in fifteen ounces of water, then add half an ounce of treacle, and one drachm of diluted sulphuric acid.
Use
as an astringent.
525. Myrrh
Add six drachms of tincture of myrrh to seven ounces of infusion of linseed, and then add one drachm of diluted sulphuric acid.
Use
as a detergent.
526. For Slight Inflammation of the Throat
Add one drachm of sulphuric ether to half an ounce of syrup of marsh-mallows, and six ounces of barley water. This may be used frequently.
527. Lotions
Lotions are usually applied to the parts required by means of a piece of linen rag or piline, wetted with them, or by wetting the bandage itself.
They are for
outward application only
.
528. Emollient
Use decoction of marsh-mallow or linseed.
529. Elder Flowers
Add two drachms and a half of elder flowers to one quart of boiling water, infuse for one hour, and strain.
Use
as a discutient.
530. Sedative
Dissolve one drachm of extract of henbane in twenty-four drachms of water.
531. Opium
Mix two drachms of bruised opium with half a pint of boiling water.
Use
, when cold, for painful ulcers, bruises, &c.
532. Stimulant
Dissolve one drachm of caustic potash in one pint of water, and then gradually pour it upon twenty-four grains of camphor and one drachm of sugar, previously bruised together in a mortar.
Use
for fungoid and flabby ulcers.
533. Ordinary
Mix one drachm of salt with eight ounces of water.
Use
for foul ulcers and flabby wounds.
534. Cold Evaporating
Add two drachms of Goulard's extract, and the same quantity of sulphuric ether to a pint of cold water.
Use
as lotion for contusions, sprains, inflamed parts, &c.
535. Hydrochlorate of Ammonia
Dissolve two drachms of sal ammoniac in six ounces of water, then add an ounce of distilled vinegar and the same quantity of rectified spirit.
Use
as a refrigerant.
536. Yellow Lotion
Dissolve one grain of corrosive sublimate in an ounce of lime water, taking care to bruise the crystals of the salt in order to assist its solution.
Use
as a detergent.
Note
, that corrosive sublimate is a
violent and deadly poison
.
537. Black Wash
Add half a drachm of calomel to four ounces of lime water, or eight grains to an ounce of lime water; shake well.
Use
as a detergent.
538. Acetate of Lead with Opium
Take twenty grains of acetate of lead, and a drachm of powdered opium, mix, and add an ounce of vinegar and four ounces of warm water, set aside for an hour, then filter.
Use
as an astringent.
539. Creosote
Add a drachm of creosote to a pint of water, and mix by shaking.
Use
as an application in cutaneous diseases.
540. Galls
Boil one drachm of bruised galls in twelve ounces of water until only half a pint remains, then strain, and add one ounce of laudanum.
Use
as an astringent and sedative.
541. Ointments and Cerates
These remedies are used as local applications to parts, generally ulcers. They are usually spread upon linen or other materials.
542. Camphorated
Mix half an ounce of camphor with one ounce of lard, having, of course, previously powdered the camphor, by adding a few drops of spirits of wine.
Use
as a discutient and stimulant in indolent tumours.
543. Chalk
Mix as much prepared chalk as you can into some lard, so as to form a thick ointment.
Use
as an application to burns and scalds.
544. For Itch
Mix four drachms of sublimed sulphur, two ounces of lard, and half a drachm of diluted sulphuric acid together.
Use
as an ointment to be rubbed into the body.
545. For Scrofulous Ulcerations
Mix one drachm of ioduret of zinc and one ounce of lard together.
Use
twice a day to the ulcerations.
546. Catechu
Mix one ounce of powdered catechu, two drachms and a half of powdered alum, one ounce of powdered white resin, and two ounces and a half of olive oil, together.
Use
for flabby and indolent ulcerations.
547. Tartar Emetic
Mix twenty grains of tartar emetic and ten grains of white sugar with one drachm and a half of lard.
Use
as a counter-irritant in white swellings, &c.
548. Pills
549. Strong Purgative
Take of powdered aloes, scammony, and gamboge, each fifteen grains, mix, and add sufficient Venice turpentine to make into a mass, then divide into twelve pills.
Dose
, one or two occasionally.
550. Milder Purgative
Take four grains of powdered scammony and the same quantity of compound extract of colocynth, and two grains of calomel; mix well, and add two drops of oil of cloves, or thin gum-water, to enable the ingredients to combine properly, and divide into two pills.
Dose
, one or two when necessary.
551. Common Purgative
Take of powdered jalap and compound extract of colocynth each four grains, of calomel two grains, mix as usual, and divide into two pills.
Dose
, one or two occasionally.
552. Tonic
Mix twenty-four grains of extract of gentian and the same of purified green vitriol (
sulphate of iron
) together, and divide into twelve pills.
Dose
, one or two when necessary. Use in debility.
553. Cough
Mix one drachm of compound powder of ipecacuanha with one scruple of gum ammoniacum and one of dried squill bulb in powder. Make into a mass with mucilage, and divide into twenty pills.
Dose
, one, three times a day.
554. Astringent
Mix sixteen grains of acetate of lead (
sugar of lead
) with four grains of opium, and make into a mass with extract of dandelion, so as to make eight pills.
Dose
, from one to two. Use as an astringent in obstinate diarrhœa, dysentery, and spitting of blood.
555. Mixtures
556. Fever, Simple
Add three ounces of spirit of mindererus (
Liquor ammonia acetatis
), three drachms of spirits of sweet nitre, four drachms of antimonial wine, and a drachm of syrup of saffron, to four ounces of water, or medicated water, such as cinnamon, aniseed, &c.
Dose
, for an adult, one or two tablespoonfuls every three hours. Use as a diaphoretic.
557. Aromatic
Mix two drachms of aromatic confection with two drachms of compound tincture of cardamoms, and eight ounces of peppermint water.
Dose
, from one ounce to one and a half. Use in flatulent colic and spasms of the bowels.
558. Cathartic
Dissolve two ounces of Epsom salts in six ounces of compound infusion of senna, then add two ounces of peppermint water.
Dose
, from one and a half to two ounces. Use as a warm and active cathartic.
559. Diuretic
Dissolve one drachm of powdered nitre in three ounces of camphor mixture; add five ounces of the decoction of broom, with six drachms of sweet spirits of nitre, and three drachms of tincture of squills; mix.
Dose
, one teaspoonful every two hours, or two tablespoonfuls every three hours. Use, excellent in dropsies
560. Cough
Dissolve three grains of tartar emetic and fifteen grains of opium in one pint of boiling water, then add four ounces of treacle, two ounces of vinegar, and one pint more of boiling water.
Dose
, from two teaspoonfuls to two tablespoonfuls, according to circumstances, every three hours, or three times a day. Use in common catarrh, bronchitis, and irritable cough.
561. Cough (for Children)
Mix three drachms of ipecacuanha wine with half an ounce of oxymel of squills, the same quantity of spirits of tolu, one ounce of mucilage, and two ounces of water.
Dose
, one teaspoonful for children under one year, two teaspoonfuls from one to five years, and a tablespoonful from five years, every time the cough is troublesome.
562. Antispasmodic
Dissolve fifty grains of camphor in two drachms of chloroform, and then add two drachms of compound tincture of lavender, six drachms of mucilage of gum arabic, eight ounces of aniseed, cinnamon, or some other aromatic water, and two ounces of distilled water; mix well.
Dose
, one tablespoonful every half hour if necessary. Use in cholera in the cold stage, when cramps are severe, or exhaustion very great; and as a general antispasmodic in doses of one dessert spoonful when the spasms are severe.
563. Tonic and Stimulant
Dissolve one drachm of extract of bark, and half a drachm of powdered gum arabic, in six ounces of water, and then add one ounce of syrup of marshmallow, and the same quantity of syrup of tolu.