_Arnica Liniment._--Add to one pint of sweet oil, two tablespoonfuls of
tincture of arnica; or the leaves may be heated in the oil over a slow
fire. Good for wounds, stiff joints, rheumatic, and all injuries.
_Ayer's Cherry Pectoral._--Take four grains of acetate of morphia, 2
fluid drachms of tincture of bloodroot, 7 fluid drachms each of
antimonial wine and wine of ipecacuanha, and 3 fluid ounces of syrup of
wild cherry. Mix.
_Balm Gilead._--Balm-gilead buds, bottled up in new rum, are very
healing to fresh cuts or wounds. No family should be without a bottle.
_Blackberry Cordial._--To one quart of blackberry juice, add one pound
of white sugar, one tablespoonful of cloves, one of allspice, one of
cinnamon, and one of nutmeg. Boil all together fifteen minutes; add a
wineglass of whiskey, brandy or rum. Bottle while hot, cork tight, and
seal. This is almost a specific in diarrhea. One dose, which is a
wineglassful for an adult--half that quantity for a child--will often
cure diarrhea. It can be taken three or four times a day if the case is
severe.
_Brandreth's Pills._--Take two pounds of aloes, one pound of gamboge,
four ounces of extract of colocynth, half a pound of castile soap, two
fluid drachms of oil of peppermint, and one fluid drachm of cinnamon.
Mix, and form into pills.
_Brown's Bronchial Troches._--Take one pound of pulverized extract of
licorice, one and a half pounds of pulverized sugar, four ounces of
pulverized cubebs, four ounces of pulverized gum arabic, and one ounce
of pulverized extract of conium. Mix.
_Bryan's Pulmonic Wafers for Coughs, Colds, Etc._--Take white sugar,
seven pounds; tincture of syrup of ipecac, four ounces: antimonial wine,
two ounces; morphine, ten grains; dissolved in a tablespoonful of water,
with ten or fifteen drops sulphuric acid; tincture of bloodroot, one
ounce; syrup of tolu, two ounces; add these to the sugar, and mix the
whole mass as confectioners do for lozenges, and cut into lozenges the
ordinary size. Use from six to twelve of these in twenty-four hours.
They sell at a great profit.
_Candied Lemon or Peppermint, for Colds._--Boil one and a half pounds of
sugar in a half pint of water, till it begins to candy round the sides;
put in eight drops of essence; pour it upon buttered paper, and cut it
with a knife.
_Camphor Balls_, for rubbing on the hands, to prevent chaps, etc.--Melt
three drachms of spermaceti, four drachms of white wax, and one ounce of
almond oil; stir in three drachms of powdered camphor. Pour the compound
into small gallipots, so as to form small hemispherical cakes. They may
be colored with alkanet, if preferred.
_Camphorated Oil._--This is another camphor liniment. The proportions
are the same as in the preceding formula, substituting olive oil for the
alcohol, and exposing the materials to a moderate heat. As an external
stimulant application it is even more powerful than the spirits; and to
obtain its full influence the part treated should be also covered with
flannel and oil silk. It forms a valuable liniment in chronic rheumatism
and other painful affections, and is specially valuable as a
counter-irritant in sore or inflamed throats and diseased bowels.
Camphor constitutes the basis of a large number of valuable liniments.
Thus, in cases of whooping-cough and some chronic bronchitic affections,
the following liniment may be advantageously rubbed into the chest and
along the spine. Spirits of camphor, two parts; laudanum, half a part;
spirits of turpentine, one part; castile soap in powder, finely divided,
half an ounce; alcohol, 3 parts. Digest the whole together for three
days, and strain through linen. This liniment should be gently warmed
before using. A powerful liniment for old rheumatic pains, especially
when affecting the loins, is the following: camphorated oil and spirits
of turpentine, of each two parts; water of hartshorn, one part;
laudanum, one part; to be well shaken together. Another very efficient
liniment or embrocation, serviceable in chronic painful affections, may
be conveniently and easily made as follows: Take of camphor, one ounce;
cayenne pepper, in powder, two teaspoonfuls; alcohol, one pint. The
whole to be digested with moderate heat for ten days, and filtered. It
is an active rubificant; and after a slight friction with it, it
produces a grateful, thrilling sensation of heat in the pained part,
which is rapidly relieved.
_Camphor Tablet for Chapped Hands, etc._--Melt tallow, and add a little
powdered camphor and glycerine, with a few drops of oil of almonds to
scent. Pour in molds and cool.
_Camphorated Eye-Water._--Sulphate of copper, 15 grains; French bolo, 15
grains; camphor, 4 grains; boiling water, 4 oz. Infuse, strain, and
dilute with 2 quarts of cold water.
_Canker-Cure._--Take one large teaspoonful of water, two teaspoonfuls of
honey, two of loaf sugar, three of powdered sage, two of powdered
gold-thread, and one of alum. Stir up all together; put into a vessel,
and let it simmer moderately over a steady fire. An oven is better. Then
bottle for use. Give a teaspoonful occasionally through the day.
_Cephalic Snuff._--Dried asarbacca leaves, three parts; majoram, one
part, lavender flowers, one part; rub together to a powder.
_Certain Cure for Headache and all Neuralgic Pains._--Opodeldoc, spirits
of wine, sal ammoniac, equal parts. To be applied as any other lotion.
_Chamomile Pills._--Aloes, twelve grains; extract chamomile, thirty-six
grains; oil of chamomile, three drops; make into twelve pills: two every
night, or twice a day.
_Chlorine Pastiles for Disinfecting the Breath._--Dry chloride of lime,
two drachms; sugar, eight ounces; starch, one ounce, gum tragacanth, one
drachm; carmine, two grains. Form into small lozenges.
2. Sugar flavored with vanilla, 1 ounce; powdered tragacanth, 20 grains;
liquid chloride of soda sufficient to mix; add two drops of any
essential oil. Form a paste and divide into lozenges of 15 grains each.
_Cholera Morbus._--Take two ounces of the leaves of the bene plant, put
them in half a pint of cold water and let them soak an hour. Give two
tablespoonfuls hourly, until relief is experienced.
_Cholera Remedy._--Spirits of wine, one ounce; spirits of lavender,
quarter ounce; spirits of camphor, quarter ounce; compound tincture of
benzoin, half an ounce; oil of origanum, quarter ounce; twenty drops on
moist sugar. To be rubbed outwardly also.