Vance’s Cream. See Chilblain.
Wahler’s Ointment. See Chilblain.
Ward’s Purging Powder. A mixture of jalap and cream of tartar, equal parts, coloured with a little red bole.—Dose. A teaspoonful, or more, in broth or beer, twice or thrice daily; in dropsy.
Webster’s Diet Drink. A sweetened decoction of betony, dulcamara, guaiacum wood, liquorice root, sarsaparilla, sassafras, thyme, and turmeric.
Wilson’s Gout Tincture. This is said to be wine of colchicum.
Wright’s Pearl Ointment. Take of white precipitate, 8 oz.; Goulard’s extract, 1 pint; rub them to a cream, and add the mixture to white wax, 7 lbs., and olive oil, 10 lbs., previously melted together by a gentle heat; lastly, stir the whole until it is nearly cold. (‘Pharm. Journ.’)
Young’s Aperient Drink. From carbonate of soda, 21⁄2 dr.; bitartrate of potassa, 3 dr. (both in crystals); throw them into a soda-water bottle containing cold water, 8 fl. oz., and immediately cork it down securely, and keep it inverted, in a cool place, until required for use.
Zanhetti’s Bohemian Restorative Tincture. From crushed raisins, 3⁄4 lb.; hay saffron, 2 oz.; aqueous extract of opium, 3 dr.; powdered cochineal, 2 dr.; capillaire and orange-flower
water, of each 1⁄2 pint; proof spirit, 3 pints; digested together for a week, and then strained, with expression.
PAULLIN′IA. See Guarana.