GELATINA.— GELATINE.
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Water, six ounces.
Boil, in a sand-bath, for a quarter of anhour and strain. (Hisp.)
This broth enjoyed formerly considerablereputation for the cure of chronic cutaneousdiseases, particularly of the herpetic kind.
PECTORAL BROTH. (BoRIES ; SAINTE-
Marie)
R. Calf's Lungs, chopped, four ounces.
Sheep's Heart, one half.
Snails, six.
Water, two pounds.
Boil down to three fourths and add, a
quarter of an hour before removing it from
the fire
Iceland Moss, four drams.
Strain. (Sainte-Marie)
R. Calf's Lungs, eight ounces.
Snails, eight.
Root of Elicampane, one dram.
Leaves of Endive half a handful.
Male Speed Well, "I of each,
Ground Ivy, J one pinch.Water, a sufficient quantity.
Boil. (Bories)
gelatinous solution. (Swediaur)
R. Isinglass, or Hartshorn Shavings,
one ounce and a half.Boiling Water, three pounds.
Boil down to two pounds, and add, whenstrained,
Cinnamon Water, two ounces.
White Sugar, one ounce.
Dose, three or four ounces, several times
a day, in dysentery, nephritis, gonorrhoea,
pulmonary catarrh, &c. — Twenty drops of
sulphuric acid may be added.
injection of isinglass and op myrrh.
(Niemann)
R. Isinglass, a sufficient quantity
to make a rather glutinous liquor with
Water, six ounces.
Add
Solution of Myrrh, one dram.
Mix. — It is extolled by Lentin in ulce-rations of the urinary bladder.
anti-h-emorrhagic mixture. (Sainte-Marie)
R. Snails, twenty-five.
Wash them well in hot water , thenbruise them in a mortar, with the shells ;express the juice, and add to it,
Syrup of Violets, an equal quantity.
Mix. — Dose, one or two spoonfuls, in a
glassful of the broth of tortoise or of crab,thrice a day. — Morgagni recommended itin scurvy.
artificial asses' milk.
Lac asininum artificíale. (Hann.)
R. Snails, six.
vings, 1°, J
Hartshorn Shavings, "
Pearl Barley,
Root of Eryngo,
Water,Boil to one lialf, and add
Syrup of Maidenhair,Mix.
of each,three drams.
two pounds.
one ounce.
decoction of gelatine.Haustus Colla animalis. (Augustin)
R. Gelatine, one ounce and a half.
Water, two ounces and a half.
Boil. — To be taken at one dose, imme-diately before the febrile paroxysm.
expectorant potion. (Ellis)
R. Isinglass, two drams.
Sugar, three drams.
Compound Tincture of Camphor,
i half an ounce.
Water, eight ounces.
Boil, and mix. — Dose, a spoonful, fouror five times a day, in catarrh.
SYRUP OF VIPERS.
Syrupus Viperarum. (Spielmann)
R. Prepared Vipers, twelve.
China Root, ] _» „ .
Sarsaparille J of each, one ounce.
Water, sixty-four ounces.
Boil down to thirty ounces. Clarify the
strained liquor, and add to it the first ten
ounces which pass over in the distillation
of a mixture of
White Wine, "1
Orange-flower >
Water, J
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one ounce.
of each,three pounds.
of each,sixty-four ounces.
Yellow Sanders Wood, "1 of each,
Cinnamon, J
Lesser Cardamoms, "
Nutmegs,
Aloes Wood,Dissolve in the mixture,
White Sugar, eighty ounces,
and add to the syrup when cold,
Tincture of Amber, one ounce.
boudet's syrup of snails.
R. Living Snails, [Helia; pomatia ? Edit.]
one hundred.
Wash them in cold water till it ceases to