2. Bichloride of mercury, 2 gr.; sal-ammoniac, 3 gr.; compound decoction of sarsaparilla, 2 fl. oz.—Dose. A teaspoonful.
3. (Sir A. Cooper.) Corrosive sublimate, 1 gr.; dilute hydrochloric acid, 1⁄2 dr.; dissolve, and add tincture of bark, 2 fl. oz.—Dose. As the last. They are all taken 2 or 3 times daily, as alteratives in scrofula, syphilis, cancer, &c. It should not be measured in a metal spoon.
Drops, Norris’s. An aqueous solution of tartar emetic, mixed with spirit of wine, and coloured.
Drops, Odontal′gic. Syn. Tooth-ache drops; Guttæ odontalgicæ, L. Prep. 1. (Dr Blake.) Alum (in fine powder), 1 dr.; sweet spirit of nitre, 7 fl. dr.; agitate together occasionally for an hour.
2. (Dr Copland.) Powdered opium and camphor, of each 10 gr.; oils of cloves and cajeput, of each 1 dr.; highly rectified spirit and sulphuric ether, of each 1⁄2 fl. oz.
3. (Cottereau.) A saturated ethereal solution of camphor, to which a few drops of liquor of ammonia is added.
4. (Dr R. E. Griffith.) Wine of opium, Hoffman’s anodyne, and oil of peppermint, equal parts. Used as a friction on the cheek or gum, as well as applied to the teeth.
5. (Perry’s.) A concentrated ethereal tincture of camphor and pellitory.
6. (Righini.) Creosote, 6 dr.; rectified spirit, 4 dr.; tincture of cochineal, 2 dr.; oil of peppermint, 1⁄2 dr.
7. Camphor, 2 dr.; rectified spirit, 1 oz.