McKinsey’s Medicinal Powder. Syn. Rev. T. Smith’s m. p. From dried lavender flowers and rosemary tops, of each 21⁄2 oz.; asarabacca, 1 oz.; reduced to powder, and further disguised with a little perfume. A very small quantity of subsulphate of mercury is also most probably added. Two or three pinches of this powder, taken 3 or 4 times a day as snuff, is said by the proprietor to be sufficient to cure almost every known disease. See Asarabacca.
Morison’s Aperient Powder. A mixture of cream of tartar and lump sugar, in nearly equal proportions, with sufficient powdered cassia to give it an aromatic flavour. See Pills.
Morison’s Adhesive Paste. See Plaster.
Ollivier’s Biscuits. Take of the white of 2 eggs; water, 3⁄4 pint; beat them together, strain the mixture, and add to it a solution of bichloride of mercury, 76 gr.; collect the precipitate, wash, dry, powder, and carefully weigh it; next add to it such a quantity of flour, &c., that each 2-dr. biscuit may contain exactly 1⁄7 gr.
Papier Fayard. See Paper (Gout).
Pate Arsenicale. A powder composed of arsenious acid, 8 gr.; dragon’s blood, 22 gr.; cinnabar, 70 gr. It is to be made into a paste
with the saliva at the time of applying it. A favourite remedy in cancer on the Continent. (Dr Paris).
Perry’s Balm of Syriacum. From English gin, 1 pint; moist sugar, 1⁄2 lb.; (dissolved in) water, 4 oz.; mix, and add of paregoric (Tinct. Camph. Co.—Ph. L. 1836), 1 oz.; tincture of tolu, 1⁄2 oz.; tincture of cantharides, q. s.; together with a few drops each of the oils of aniseed and spearmint; agitate well together, and the next day filter, or decant the clear portion.
Perry’s Preventive Lotion. This is said to be a solution of sal alembroth, 2 dr., in water, 1 pint. For use, it is diluted with 4 or 5 times its bulk of water.
Pieste’s Toothache Essence. From liquor of ammonia, 2 parts; laudanum, 1 part. It is applied on lint.