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.
Mix 4 oz. quick lime in 6 pints of soft water, and let it stand covered an hour; then pour off the liquid.
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.
- 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.
