Poudre Kusique: a French nostrum. Mix 45 gr. of nitre, 45 of sulphur, and 1 charcoal. Divide into 3 doses. Give 1 for 2 successive mornings, and the third on the 4th morning, mixed with lard or butter, or in milk. For a large dog a second packet (of 3 powders) may be required. (Habert.)
Another French nostrum. Hemel’s Powder is of a similar kind.
8. A strong solution of salt, to the amount of 1⁄2 pint daily.
9. Powdered tin, sulphur, gunpowder, of each 1 oz.; lard sufficient to form a mass. The size of a nutmeg to be given twice or thrice a week.
10. Physic Ball No. 11.
11. 1⁄4 oz. to 1 fl. oz. of cod-liver oil twice a day, according to size.
12. Emetics, gentle laxatives, milk diet, and from 5 to 15 gr. of chlorate of potash twice a day. (Finlay Dun.)
Worm Medicines:—
1. Carbonate of iron, 1⁄2 oz.; Æthiops mineral, 1 dr.; gentian, 1 oz.; ginger, 1⁄2 oz.; levigated glass, 1 oz.; palm oil, 9 dr.; beat well together.—Dose, from 3⁄4 to 2 dr. (Clater.)
2. As much very finely-powdered glass as will lie on a sixpence, mixed with butter (Blaine). Mr Youatt says from 1⁄2 dr. to 1 dr.; powdered glass, with a little ginger, made into a ball with lard.