Diet: Underdone mutton or veal mixed with Spratt’s charcoal biscuits, or stale bread or toast, broken up small, and mixed with a little soup. Avoid fatty or starchy food, and give no sugar.
Acne:
Symptoms: Small red spots about the body, head, and limbs. There is not much irritation. More often noticed in the spring and autumn.
Treatment: Apply following lotion frequently:
Recipe:
| Milk of Sulphur, | 1 ounce. |
| Glycerium Boracis, | 1 ” |
| Liquor Bismuth, | 1 ” |
| Water to | 8 ounces. |
Give following powders twice a day with food:—
Recipe:
| Reduced Iron, | 6 grains to 2 scruples.[1] |
| Bicarbonate Potash, | 1 scruple to 2 drachms. |
| Sulphate Magnesia, | ½ drachm to 4 ” |
| Mix. | |