1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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to the electrum, 'No. 3 ; but these are very rare. This alloy is very fusible, but very hard, and not easily rolled : it is the best adapted for casting.

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No. 586.

Hoio to Poison Rats. Mix 2 pounds carbonate of barytes with 1 pound hird, and lay it in their way. It is tasteless, odour- less, and impalpable, produces great thirst, and death immediately after drinking. Another way is to mix arsenic and lard together, and spread it on bread, and push a piece in every rat-hole ; or some small pieces of sponge may be fried in drippings or honey, and strewed about for them to eat. The sponge will distend their intestines, and will cause their death. Or 1 pint plaster of Paris, mixed with oat-meal, 1 pint, will prove equally fatal to them. Headache is in general a symptom of indigestion or deranged general health, or the consequence of a confined state of the bowels. The following altera- tive pill will be found a valuable medicine. Take of calomel, 10 grains ; emetic tartar, 2, 3, or 4 grains; precipitated sulphuret of antimony, 1 scru- ple ; guaiacum, in powder, 1 drachm. Rub them well together in a mortar for 10 minutes; then, with a little conserve of hips, make them into a mass, and divide it into 20 pihs. Dose. — One pill is given every night, or every other night, for several weeks in succession. No. 587. Bilious or Sick Headache.