Medicinal Imperial.
Useful in the Spring, or in slight Fevers, or Colds.
Pour 3 quarts of boiling water over 1½ oz. of cream of tartar, 1 oz. Epsom salts, ¾ lb. lump sugar, the peel of 3 lemons, and the juice of 1; cover close half an hour, then boil up, skim and strain it through thin muslin, into decanters.—A wine-glassful before breakfast.
Lime Water.
Mix 4 oz. quick lime in 6 pints of soft water, and let it stand covered an hour; then pour off the liquid.
Seidlitz Powders.
Put into one tumbler, 2 drachms of Rochelle salts, and 2 scruples of carbonate of soda; into another tumbler put 2 scruples of tartaric acid, fill each tumbler rather more than a quarter part, then pour the two together.—Or: mix carefully 2 drachms of sulphate of magnesia in fine powder, with 2 scruples of bicarbonate of soda, and mark the packet No. 1; in another packet, marked No. 2, put 40 grains of tartaric acid in fine powder. Mix in two different tumblers, each a quarter part filled with water, and drink in a state of effervescence.
Medicines to keep in the House.
| Camomile Flowers. Camphorated Spirits. Castor Oil. Epsom Salts. Hartshorn. Jalap Powder. Magnesia Calcined. Peppermint Water. Rhubarb. |
Sal. Volatile. Salt of Wormwood. Senna Leaves. Soda Carbonate. Spirits of Lavender. Sweet Spirits of Nitre. Tincture Rhubarb. Tincture Myrrh. |
