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.
[The Purging Drink, No. 6, or a fourth of No. 1, should be given before the Astringent Drinks.]
1. Prepared chalk 2 oz., catechu 1 oz., ginger 1/2 oz., opium 1 dr., peppermint water a pint. Dose, for lambs, a tablespoonful night and morning. - YOUATT.
2. Prepared chalk 1/4 oz., ginger 1/2 dr., catechu 1/2 dr., opium 2 grs., in gruel; once or twice daily.
3. A tablespoonful of Calves' Cordial (see Medicines for Calves, further back).
4. Compound powder of chalk with opium 2 drs., gentian 1 dr., essence of peppermint 3 drops; in a little thin starch morning and night. - Clater.
5. Ginger 2 drs., caraway 4 drs., prepared chalk 4 drs.; mix: give a teaspoonful in gruel. - White.
6. In white skit. A teaspoonful of "White's Alkaline Solution (p. 128) in a little gruel; and afterwards No. 7.
7. Epsom salts 3 drs., common salt, a scruple, powdered ginger a scruple, thin gruel 4 oz. Repeat if necessary.
Epsom salts 1 oz., sulphur 2 drs., nitre 1/2 dr., ginger 15 grs., in warm water. Repeat half this, with a teaspoonful of sweet spirit of nitre, daily. - Spooner.
 
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