Pilules Angéliques. Syn. Grains de santé. Take of aloes and juice of roses, of each 4 oz.; juices of borage and chicory, of each 2 oz.; beat them together, and when they are reduced to the consistence of a soft pill-mass, add of powdered rhubarb, 2 dr., powdered agaric, 1 dr., and divide the mixture into 11⁄2-gr. pills. A good purgative.—Dose, 4 to 12.
Poor Man’s Friend. (French.) See Ointment (Brown).
Poor Man’s Friend. (Dr Roberts’.) This consists chiefly of ointment of nitric-oxide of mercury.
Pringle’s Remedy for Typhus. (Dr Paris.) Pale cinchona (bruised), 1⁄2 oz.; water, 12 fl. oz.; boil them together for 10 minutes, adding, towards the end, Virginian snake-root (bruised), 2 dr.; macerate for an hour in a covered vessel, and to the strained liquid add of dilute sulphuric acid, 2 fl. dr., and when the mixture is cold, further add of spirit of cinnamon, 1 fl. oz. The dose is 2 table-spoonfuls every six hours.
Reynolds’ Gout Specific. Wine of colchicum disguised by some unimportant additions.
Righini’s Odontalgic Drops. A solution of creasote in an equal weight of the strongest rectified spirit, coloured with cochineal, and disguised by the addition of a few drops of oil of peppermint.
Ruspini’s Styptic. A strong solution of gallic acid in spirit of roses. Dr A. T. Thomson says that it also contains sulphate of zinc.
Rust’s Toothache Paste. See Paste.
Scott’s Drops. Syn. Tincture of Soot. From wood-soot, 2 oz.; assafœtida, 1 oz.; brandy or proof spirit, 1 pint.—Dose, 1 to 2 table-spoonfuls; in hysteria, &c.
Smith’s Powder. See McKinsey’s Powder.