The century cook book

oil with lo or 15 drops of laudanum will do very well, and follow with these pills: Blue mass and powder of ipecac of each, 12 grains; mix, and divide into 12 pills. Take one every three hours. Or, take of camphor, 18 grains; ipecac, 6 grains; opium, 3 grains; mix, and divide into 12 pills. Take one every three or four hours. When astringents are needed, a good pill is the following: Acetate of lead, 12 grains; opium 3 grains. Mix, and make twelve pills, and take one every three hours. Or, take of Dover's powder, i drachm; tannin jE^ drachm; mix, and divide into twelve powders. Take one every four or five hours. Five grains of bismuth may also be added to each dose. The tincture of witch-hazel in two to five drops, doses every two hours, may be taken when the discharges are bloody. Should they be bloody and slimy, uis the following: Take of corrosive sublimate, 1 grain; distilled water, ½ pint. Take a teaspoonful every hour or two. Injections are very important in dysentery. Two or four ounces of flaxseed tea with one or two ounces of starch, thin enough to be drawn into a small syringe, with 20 drops of laudanum, should be injected into the bowel. For children use the following: Take of castor oil, I drachm; powdered gum arable, 20 grains; laudanum, 4 drops; simple syrup, i drachm-; orange flower water, 6 drachms; mix, and give a teaspoonful every three hours. Dyspepsia. It is generally caused by too much food or too little food; imperfect mastication, and hurry in eating; too little exercise; too much fatigue; excessive study or emotional excitement ; inordinate use of ardent spirits, opium, tobacco, coffee, or of medicine out of place. The patient feels his stomach all the time, though not always in pain. The mouth is clammy, or has a sour or bitter taste. The complexion is more or less sallow. The bowels are costive. There is heartburn, waterbrash, hypochondria, palpitation of the heart, etc. TJie Family Doctor 313 In the treatment of this affection, correct diet is the most important. The meals should be regular, and with sufficient time allowed. Beef, mutton, chicken, turkey, stale bread, crackers. Exercise in the open air is important, as is also bathing. The medical treatment needs tonics, laxatives, and antacids. The following prescriptions will be found quite effective: Take of compound tincture of gentian, tincture of rhubarb, each 2 ounces. Mix; take two teaspoonfuls before meals. Or, take of dilute muriatic acid 2 drachms; pepsin, 4 drachms; syrup of orange peel, 2 ounces; water 6 ounces. Mix, and take half tablespoonful with every meal. Or, take of elixir quinine, iron and arsenic, 4 ounces; take a teaspoonful after each meal. Or, take of subnitrate of bismuth, 320 grains; tincture of nux vomica, 3 drachms; mucilage of gum arable, 4 ounces. Mix, and take a teaspoonful three times a day. Where there is much nervous debility, anaemia, and particularly in cases of long standing, use the following pills: Take of pill of carbonate of iron, 2 scruples; sulphate of quinine, i scruple; alcoholic extract of nux vomica, 5 grains; Mix, and divide into 20 pills, and take one thrice daily.