Cooley's Cyclopaedia of Practical Receipts Volume Ii Part 122

=G.o.dfrey's Cordial.= 1. (Original formula.) Opium (sliced), 1/4 oz.; sa.s.safras chips 1 oz.; English brandy, 1 quart; macerate for 4 or 5 days, then add, of water, 1 quart, treacle, 3-1/2 lbs., and simmer the whole gently for a few minutes; the next day decant the clear portion.

2. (Dr Paris.) Aniseed, caraways, and corianders, of each, bruised, 1 oz.; sa.s.safras chips, 9 oz.; water, 6 pints; simmer gently until reduced to 4 pints, then add of treacle, 6 lbs.; and when nearly cold, further add of tincture of opium, 3 fl. oz.

3. (Phil. Coll. of Phar.) Carbonate of pota.s.sa, 2-1/2 oz.; water, 26 pints (old wine measure); dissolve, add of sugar-house mola.s.ses (treacle), 16 pints (o. w. m.); simmer the mixture, remove the sc.u.m, and when it has considerably cooled, add of tincture of opium, 24 fl. oz.; oil of sa.s.safras, 1/2 fl. oz.; (dissolved in) rectified spirit, 1 quart (o. w.

m.) It contains about 16 drops of laudanum (= 1-1/8 gr. of opium) in each fl. oz.

The following forms are also current in the wholesale trade:--

4. From mola.s.ses, 16 lbs.; distilled water, 2-3/4 galls.; oil of sa.s.safras, 1 fl. oz.; (dissolved in) rectified spirit, 1/2 gall.; bruised ginger, 3/4 oz.; cloves, 1/2 oz.; laudanum, 8 fl. oz.; macerate for 14 days, and strain through flannel.

5. Sa.s.safras chips, 1 lb.; ginger (bruised), 4 oz.; water, 3 galls.; simmer until reduced to 2 galls.; then add of treacle, 16 lbs.; rectified spirit, 7 lbs.; laudanum, 1 pint.

6. Opium, 1/2 oz.; treacle, 7 lbs.; boiling water, 1 gall.; dissolve, and add, of rectified spirit, 1 quart; oil of sa.s.safra.s.s, 1/2 dr.; cloves and mustard seed, of each 1/4 oz.; coriander and caraway seeds, of each 1 dr.; digest for a week.

7. Caraways, corianders, and aniseed, of each 1 lb.; water, 6 galls.; distil 5 galls., and add, of treacle, 23 lbs.; laudanum, 1 quart; and oil of sa.s.safras, 1 fl. oz., previously dissolved in rectified spirit, 1 gall.

_Obs._ This preparation is anodyne and narcotic, and, amongst the lower cla.s.ses, is commonly given to children troubled with wind or colic. Its frequent and excessive use has sent many infants prematurely to the grave.

Gray says, "It is chiefly used to prevent the crying of children in pain or starving." The dose is 1/3 teaspoonful and upwards, according to the age and susceptibility of the child.

=Grave's Gout Preventive.= A tincture prepared by steeping, for a week, dried orange peel and hiera picra, of each 1 oz., and rhubarb, 1/2 oz., in brandy, 1 pint.

=Grinrod's Remedy for Spasms.= From acetate of morphia, 1 gr.; spirit of sal volatile and sulphuric ether, of each 1 fl. oz.; camphor julep, 4 fl.

oz.; for a mixture. It should be kept closely corked, in a cool place, and should be well shaken before use.--_Dose._ A teaspoonful in a gla.s.s of cold water or wine, as required. It is a really valuable preparation.

=Herrenschwand's Specific.= A mixture of gamboge, 10 gr., with carbonate of pota.s.sa, 20 gr. (Dr Paris.)

=Holloway's Ointment.= The original formula of ALBINOLO'S OINTMENT, of which this pretends to be a reproduction, contained the "graisses der serpent et de vipere," and other pharmaceutical curiosities. The princ.i.p.al ingredients, however, in the HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT of the present day are very homely substances. In the case of Sillen _v._ Holloway, tried at the Court of Common Pleas in January, 1863, the plaintiff's counsel a.s.serted that, on the ointment being received by the agent in Paris, it was submitted to the authorised government chemists to be a.n.a.lysed, in accordance with the laws of France prohibiting the sale of secret remedies, and was found by them to contain b.u.t.ter, lard, Venice turpentine, white wax, yellow wax, and nothing else. In a letter to the 'Times' Mr Holloway stated that the French a.n.a.lysis was incorrect, for three of the ingredients named were not in the ointment, while there were other components which the a.n.a.lysts had not discovered. The formula adopted by those who prepare an imitation ointment on the large scale, and which closely resembles, if it be not actually identical with, that employed by Mr Holloway, is as follows:--Fresh b.u.t.ter (free from water), 3/4 lb.; beeswax (good), 4 oz.; yellow resin, 3 oz.; melt them together, add of vinegar of cantharides, 1 fl. oz., and simmer the whole, with constant agitation, for 10 or 12 minutes, or until the moisture is nearly evaporated; then add of Canada balsam, 1 oz.; expressed oil of mace, 1/2 dr.; balsam of Peru or liquid styrax, 10 or 12 drops; again stir well, allow the mixture to settle, and when it is about half cold (not before) pour it into the pots, previously slightly warmed, and allow it to cool very slowly. The label will do the rest. No two samples of Holloway's ointment are precisely of the same colour or consistence.

=Holloway's Pills.= From aloes, 4 parts; jalap, ginger, and myrrh, of each 2 parts; made into a ma.s.s with mucilage, and divided into 2-grain pills, of which about 4 dozen are put into each 1s. 1-1/2d. box.

=Jackson's Bathing Spirit.= A species of soap liniment, made of soft soap, 1 lb.; camphor, 6 oz.; oils of rosemary and thyme, of each 3/4 fl. oz.; rectified spirit, 1 gall.

=Kaye's Infant's Preservative.= A preparation partaking of the joint properties of Atkinson's nostrum and G.o.dfrey's cordial, but more powerful than either, as indicated by the doses in which it is directed to be given during early infancy, viz. "two, three, or more drops."

=Keating's Cough Lozenges.= These are said to be composed of--Lactucarium, 2 dr.; ipecacuanha, 1 dr.; squills, 3/4 dr.; extract of liquorice, 2 oz.; sugar, 6 oz.; made into a ma.s.s with mucilage of tragacanth, and divided into 20-gr. lozenges.

=King's Sarsaparilla Pills.= From the compound extract. "Instead of two pills being equivalent to 1/2 fl. oz. of the concentrated decoction or essence of sarsaparilla, as a.s.serted, it takes about 32 of them to represent the given quant.i.ty, and about 4 of them to be equal in strength to the common decoction of the Pharmacopia." "Instead of one 2s. 9d. box of these pills being equal to a pint of the costly concentrated fluid preparation, it would take nearly 1-1/2 lb. of them for that purpose."

('Med. Circ.,' ii, 493.)

=Kitchener's Peristaltic Persuaders.= See PILLS.

=Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam.= The active ingredients in this compound are said to be squills and aqueous extract of opium.

=Lemazurier's Odontalgic Essence.= From acetate of morphia, 1 gr.; dissolved in cherry-laurel water, 1 oz. For use, a teaspoonful is added to half a wine-gla.s.sful of warm water, and the mouth well rinsed out with the mixture.

=Leroy's Purgative.=--_a._ (No. 1.) Vegetable turbith, 6 dr.; scammony, 1-1/2 oz.; jalap, 6 oz.; brandy, 10 pints; digest for 24 hours, and add a syrup made of senna, 6 oz.; water, 1-1/4 pint; sugar, 32 oz.

_b._ (No. 2.) As the last, only one third stronger.

_c._ (No. 3.) Twice as strong as No. 1.

=Lewis's Electuarium.= A liquid nostrum, said to be alterative and to contain a small quant.i.ty of both antimony and mercury.

=Lewis's Balsamic Ointment.= This preparation, which is declared by its proprietor to be "utterly unsurpa.s.sable," for the most part resemble Holloway's ointment. ('Med. Circ.' ii, 493.)

=Lewis's Silver Cream.= This nostrum is said to depend for its efficacy on white precipitate and a salt of lead.

=Loc.o.c.k's Pulmonic Lozenges.= See WAFERS.

=Mahomed's Paste.= See ELECTUARY.

=Mardant's Norton's Drops.= A mixture of the tinctures of gentian and ginger, holding in solution a little bichloride of mercury, and coloured with cochineal.

=Marriott's Dry Vomit.= A mixture of equal parts of tartar emetic and sulphate of copper.

=Marsden's Drops.= A coloured solution of corrosive sublimate. (Dr Paris.)

=Matthieu's Vermifuge.=--_a._ (To destroy the worms.) Tin filings, 1 oz.; male fern root, 6 dr.; worm seed, 4 dr.; resinous extract of jalap and sulphate of pota.s.sa, of each 1 dr.; honey, q. s. to form an electuary.--_Dose._ A teaspoonful, repeated every third or fourth hour for 2 or 3 days, when the following is to be subst.i.tuted, and continued until the bowels are well acted on.

_b._ (To expel the worms.) Jalap and sulphate of pota.s.sa, of each 40 gr.; scammony, 20 gr.; gamboge, 10 gr.; honey, q. s. as before.

=McKinsey's Golden Cerate.= This appears to resemble Poor Man's Friend.

=McKinsey's Katapotia.= This notorious nostrum is compounded of aloes, 5 oz.; soap, 1-1/2 oz. (both in powder); beaten up with syrup of saffron and a little essential oil, and divided into pills varying in weight from 2 to 2-1/2 gr. each. ('Med. Circ.,' iv, 86).

=McKinsey's Medicinal Powder.= _Syn._ REV. T. SMITH'S M. P. From dried lavender flowers and rosemary tops, of each 2-1/2 oz.; asarabacca, 1 oz.; reduced to powder, and further disguised with a little perfume. A very small quant.i.ty of subsulphate of mercury is also most probably added. Two or three pinches of this powder, taken 3 or 4 times a day as snuff, is said by the proprietor to be sufficient to cure almost every known disease. See ASARABACCA.

=Morison's Aperient Powder.= A mixture of cream of tartar and lump sugar, in nearly equal proportions, with sufficient powdered ca.s.sia to give it an aromatic flavour. See PILLS.

=Morison's Adhesive Paste.= See PLASTER.

=Ollivier's Biscuits.= Take of the white of 2 eggs; water, 3/4 pint; beat them together, strain the mixture, and add to it a solution of bichloride of mercury, 76 gr.; collect the precipitate, wash, dry, powder, and carefully weigh it; next add to it such a quant.i.ty of flour, &c., that each 2-dr. biscuit may contain exactly 1/7 gr.

=Papier Fayard.= See PAPER (Gout).

=Pate a.r.s.enicale.= A powder composed of a.r.s.enious acid, 8 gr.; dragon's blood, 22 gr.; cinnabar, 70 gr. It is to be made into a paste with the saliva at the time of applying it. A favourite remedy in cancer on the Continent. (Dr Paris).

=Perry's Balm of Syriac.u.m.= From English gin, 1 pint; moist sugar, 1/2 lb.; (dissolved in) water, 4 oz.; mix, and add of paregoric (Tinct. Camph.

Co.--Ph. L. 1836), 1 oz.; tincture of tolu, 1/2 oz.; tincture of cantharides, q. s.; together with a few drops each of the oils of aniseed and spearmint; agitate well together, and the next day filter, or decant the clear portion.

=Perry's Preventive Lotion.= This is said to be a solution of sal alembroth, 2 dr., in water, 1 pint. For use, it is diluted with 4 or 5 times its bulk of water.

=Pieste's Toothache Essence.= From liquor of ammonia, 2 parts; laudanum, 1 part. It is applied on lint.

=Pilules Angeliques.= _Syn._ GRAINS DE SANTe. Take of aloes and juice of roses, of each 4 oz.; juices of borage and chicory, of each 2 oz.; beat them together, and when they are reduced to the consistence of a soft pill-ma.s.s, add of powdered rhubarb, 2 dr., powdered agaric, 1 dr., and divide the mixture into 1-1/2-gr. pills. A good purgative.--_Dose_, 4 to 12.

=Poor Man's Friend.= (French.) See OINTMENT (Brown).