1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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No. 433. Restorative Balls after Jaundice.

Take of gentian and carawaj-seeds, in powder, •each 8 ounces, powdered ginger, and precipitated sulphur of antimony, each 6 drachms, Castile soap, 1^ ounces, and honey sufficient to form into 6 balls. One of these balls should be given every other day for some time.

No. 434. Pectoral Balls for Broken Wind,

Take of Barbadoes tar, Venice turpentine, and Castile soap, each 2 ounces, squills in powder, 1 ounce ; then add nitre 2 ounces, anise-seed and caraway-seeds, fresh powdered, each 1 ounce ; beat them into a mass with honey and liquorice-powder, and divide into 10 balls.

No. 435. Alterative Balls for Surfeit^ Mange^ ^"C.

Take of precipitated sulphur of antimony and gentian-root, and Socotrine aloes, each 1 ounce, in fine powder, nitre 2 ounces, calomel and can- tharides, in powder, each 2 drachms. Mix, and make them into a mass of balls with honey or molasses. Each ball to weigh 1^ ounces. This ball will be found very useful in many dis- eases, such as surfeit, hide-bound, mange, grease or swelled legs, lameness of the joints, molten grease, Inflammation of the eyes, and, indeed, in all linger- ing and obstinate diseases. One ball may be given every other morning for 2 or 3 weeks.