Astringent Drenches, For Dysentery (Scouring Rot) Or Lax
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This section is from the book "The Druggist's General Receipt Book", by Henry Beasley. Also available from Amazon: The druggist's general receipt book.
Astringent Drenches, For Dysentery (Scouring Rot) Or Lax
1. After purging drenches: prepared chalk 2 oz., oak-bark 1 oz., catechu 1/2 oz., opium 2 scruples, ginger 2 drs., warm gruel 1 quart. - Clater.
2. Two quarts of alum whey.
3. First give blue pill 2 or 3 drs., rhubarb 3 drs., castor oil 4 oz., gruel 1 pint, well stirred before giving it; repeat this 3 or 4 mornings; then give - thick starch (made with 4 oz. of starch) 3 or 4 pints, tincture of opium 2 drs., ginger 3 drs., catechu 1/2 oz. - White.
4. Mutton suet 1 ft, new milk 2 quarts; boil, and add opium 1/2 dr., ginger 1 dr. - Clater.
5. Cordial Astringent Drench. (After the laxative drench No. 2.) Catechu 1/4 oz., allspice 1/4 oz., caraways 1/2 oz., ale 1/2 pint, water 1/2 pint. - WHITE.
6. Decoction of sloes, with prepared chalk. - TUSSER.
7. Decoction of wormwood a quart, gum Arabic 2 oz., aromatic confection 1 oz., catechu 2 drs.; with linseed tea, repeated every 6 days for three times. - Rawlings.
8. Sheep's heart, liver, and lights, all chopped up together. - SUMNER .
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