Dutch Ague Remedy. A mixture formed of Peruvian bark and cream of tartar, of each 1 oz.; cloves, 1⁄2 dr.; reduced to fine powder.—Dose, 11⁄2 dr., every 3 hours. (Dr Paris.)
Godfrey’s Cordial. 1. (Original formula.) Opium (sliced), 1⁄4 oz.; sassafras chips 1 oz.; English brandy, 1 quart; macerate for 4 or 5 days, then add, of water, 1 quart, treacle, 31⁄2 lbs., and simmer the whole gently for a few minutes; the next day decant the clear portion.
2. (Dr Paris.) Aniseed, caraways, and corianders, of each, bruised, 1 oz.; sassafras chips, 9 oz.; water, 6 pints; simmer gently until reduced to 4 pints, then add of treacle, 6 lbs.; and when nearly cold, further add of tincture of opium, 3 fl. oz.
3. (Phil. Coll. of Phar.) Carbonate of potassa, 21⁄2 oz.; water, 26 pints (old wine measure); dissolve, add of sugar-house molasses (treacle), 16 pints (o. w. m.); simmer the mixture, remove the scum, and when it has considerably cooled, add of tincture of opium, 24 fl. oz.; oil of sassafras, 1⁄2 fl. oz.; (dissolved in) rectified spirit, 1 quart (o. w. m.) It contains about 16 drops of laudanum (= 11⁄8 gr. of opium) in each fl. oz.
The following forms are also current in the wholesale trade:—
4. From molasses, 16 lbs.; distilled water, 23⁄4 galls.; oil of sassafras, 1 fl. oz.; (dissolved in) rectified spirit, 1⁄2 gall.; bruised ginger, 3⁄4 oz.; cloves, 1⁄2 oz.; laudanum, 8 fl. oz.; macerate for 14 days, and strain through flannel.
5. Sassafras chips, 1 lb.; ginger (bruised), 4 oz.; water, 3 galls.; simmer until reduced to 2 galls.; then add of treacle, 16 lbs.; rectified spirit, 7 lbs.; laudanum, 1 pint.
6. Opium, 1⁄2 oz.; treacle, 7 lbs.; boiling water, 1 gall.; dissolve, and add, of rectified spirit, 1 quart; oil of sassafrass, 1⁄2 dr.; cloves
and mustard seed, of each 1⁄4 oz.; coriander and caraway seeds, of each 1 dr.; digest for a week.
7. Caraways, corianders, and aniseed, of each 1 lb.; water, 6 galls.; distil 5 galls., and add, of treacle, 23 lbs.; laudanum, 1 quart; and oil of sassafras, 1 fl. oz., previously dissolved in rectified spirit, 1 gall.