Drops, Spilbury’s. Prep. 1. (Dr Paris.) From bichloride of mercury, gentian root, and dried orange peel, of each 2 dr.; precipitated sulphuret of antimony and red sanders wood, of each, 1 dr.; proof spirit, 16 fl. oz.; digest ten days and strain.
2. Levigated crocus metallorum (‘crocus of antimony’), 6 dr.; corrosive sublimate, 45 gr.; red sanders, 1⁄2 dr.; gentian root and dried orange peel, of each 2 dr.; brandy (or equal parts of rect. sp. and water), 16 fl. oz.; digest as before.—Dose, 5 to 30 drops; as an antiscorbutic, &c.
Drops, Steel. See Tincture of Sesquichloride of Iron.
Drops, Ton′ic. Prep. (Collier.) Elixir of vitriol, 2 fl. dr.; tincture of calumba, 6 fl. dr. A teaspoonful three times daily, in a wine-glassful of cold water.
Drops, Torrington’s. See Tincture of Benzoin (Comp.).
Drops, Van Swieten’s. An aromatised solution of corrosive sublimate.
Drop, Ward’s White. Prep. From quicksilver, 4 oz.; nitric acid, 16 fl. oz.; dissolve, add sesquicarbonate of ammonia, 7 oz.; evaporate and crystallise; then dissolve the resulting salt by the heat of a sand bath, in 4 times its weight of rose-water. Very poisonous.—Dose, 5 to 15 drops, as an antiscorbutic, antivenereal, &c.
Drops, Worm. Syn. Guttæ anthelminticæ, G. vermifugæ, L. Prep. 1. Creosote, 1 dr.; oil of turpentine, 7 fl. dr.—Dose. A teaspoonful, 3 or 4 times a day.
2. (Peschier.) Oil of male-fern, 3 fl. dr.; rectified oil of turpentine, 5 fl. dr. As the last; in tapeworm.
3. (Schwartz’.) Barbadoes tar, 1 fl. oz.; tincture of assafœtida, 11⁄2 fl. oz.—Dose, 30 to 40 drops, three times a day; in tapeworm.