Solomon’s Anti-impetigines. A solution of bichloride of mercury disguised by the addition of a little flavouring and tinctorial matter. (‘Med. Circ.,’ ii, 69, 70).
Standert’s Red Mixture. Take of carbonate of magnesia, 1 oz.; powdered Turkey rhubarb, 1⁄3 oz.; tincture of rhubarb, 3 fl. oz.; tincture of
opium, 2 fl. dr.; oils of aniseed and peppermint of each 1⁄2 dr.; (dissolved in) gin or proof spirit, 5 fl. oz.; agitate the whole together, then further add of soft water, 11⁄4 pint. In colic and diarrhœa.—Dose. A wine-glassful. The spirit is frequently omitted, but then the mixture soon spoils.
Standert’s Stomachic Candy. Take of lump sugar, 1 lb.; water, 3 fl. oz.; dissolve by heat; add cardamom seeds, ginger, and rhubarb, of each 1 oz.; and when the mixture is complete, pour it out on an oiled slab or into moulds.
Storey’s Worm Cakes. Take of calomel and cinnabar, of each 24 gr.; powdered jalap, 72 gr.; ginger, 1 dr.; white sugar, 11⁄4 oz.; syrup, q. s.; mix and divide into a dozen cakes. Resemble ‘Ching’s lozenges’ in their action. (See page 1007).
Struve’s Lotion. See Lotion, Hooping-cough.
Succession Powder. A mixture of powdered quartz and diamond dust, chiefly the first. Used as an escharotic.
Tasteless Ague Drops. A solution of arsenite of potassa. It is the common ague medicine in the fen counties of England.
Turlington’s Balsam. See Balsam of Life (above).
Valangin’s Solution of Solvent Mineral. From arsenious acid, 1⁄2 dr., dissolved in hydrochloric acid, 11⁄2 dr., and the solution diluted with distilled water, 11⁄2 pint. In ague, &c. It has rather less than half the strength of the solution of arsenite of potassa, Ph. L.