Dr. M'Millan's formulas and domestic guide

Dissolve the salts separately, each in a pint of the water, a fluid ounce of the syrup added to each pint of the water. Mix the solutions when cold in a bottle just large enough to hold them. Close it accurately with a stopper, and set it by, that the carbonate of iron may subside. Pour off the supernant liquid, and, having mixed water recently boiled with syrup in the proportion of a pint to the fluid ounce, wash the precipitate with the mixture until the washings no longer have a salty taste. Place the precipitate on a flannel cloth to drain, and, having expressed as much of the water as possible, mix it immediately with the clarified honey and sugar. Lastly, by means of a water bath, evaporate the mixture, constantly stirring until it is brought to the weight of 8 ounces. Make 480 pills. The pills are admirably adapted to cases where iron is indicated. It is considered especially useful in chlorosis and amenorrhoe and other female complaints. It improves the coloring matter of the system, and produces red cheeks and lips. Dose, I, 2 or 3 pills a day. COMPOUND RHUBARB PILL. Rhubarb in fine powder i ounce. Socotrine aloes in fine powder 360 grains. Myrrh in fine powder one-half ounce. Oil of peppermint one-half dram. Beat them together so as to make a pilular mass ; to be divided into 240 pills. This is a warm laxative tonic, useful in costiveness with debility of stomach. From 2 to 4 pills may be taken twice a day or from 10 to 20 grains of the mass. COMPOUND PILLS OF ASSAFETIDA. Galbanum 360 grains. Myrrh 360 grains. Assafetida 120 grains. Syrup, a sufficient quantity. Beat them together so as to form a pilular mass, to be divided into 240 pills. This compound is given as an anti-spasmodic and emmenagogue in chlorosis and hysteria, in that nervous class of females who are peculiarly apt to have these diseases. The dose is from i, 2, 3 or 4 pills at a dose every 4 hours during the day time, and the use of the pills should be persisted in. SEIDLITZ POWDERS. Bicarbonate of soda in fine powder i ounce. Tartrate of potassa and soda in fine powder 3 ounces. Tartaric acid in fine powder 420 grains. Mix intimately the bicarbonate of soda and tartrate of potassa and soda. Divide this mixture into 12 equal powders. Then divide the tartaric acid into an equal number of powders, with paper of a different color. When used dissolve i powder in a glass ^^ full of water, dissolving tartaric acid I powder in another glass with an ounce of water. Then turn them together and drink while foaming. These powders are refrigerant and aperient, and generally very acceptable to the stomach. One pair of them will generally operate slightly. The dose may be repeated every 3 or 4 hours until the desired effect is had. They maybe flavored by adding syrup of ginger, or orange peel or lemon to one of the glasses before admixture. PILLS OF IPECAC AND SQUILLS. Compound powder of ipecac 3 ounces. Squill in powder i ounce. Ammoniacum in powder i ounce. Treacle a sufficiency.