The Mixture is pleasant to the taste, and warranted free from anything injurious to the most delicate constitution of either sex, which all Pills and most Medicines sold for the above diseases contain.
Directions: The mixture must be taken about half-an-hour after meals, in the following doses:—
- For Adult Males.—One tablespoonful four times a day.
- ” Adult Females.—One tablespoonful three times a day.
- ” Children under 12 years of age.—Two teaspoonfuls
- three times a day.
- ” Under 12 years.—From half to one teaspoonful, according
- to age, mixed with a little water and sugar.
Analysis showed the mixture to contain 1·5 per cent. of potassium iodide, 1·2 per cent. of sugar (partly inverted), 1·6 per cent. by volume of alcohol, and traces of chloroform and ammonia, a brown colour being given by a small quantity of what was evidently burnt sugar. The composition of 8 ounces is thus:
| Potassium iodide | 52·5 | grains. |
| Spirit of sal volatile | 10 | minims. |
| Spirit of chloroform | 67 | ” |
| Simple syrup | 50 | ” |
| Burnt sugar | q.s. | |
| Water to | 8 | fluid ounces. |
The estimated cost of the ingredients is 1⅓d.
OLD Dr. JACOB TOWNSEND’S
AMERICAN SARSAPARILLA.
This is sold by a Company having offices in London. A bottle, holding a little under 9 fluid ounces, costs 2s. 6d.
On the wrapper it was stated:
This Sarsaparilla is the great purifier of the blood and general juices of the system, it effects the most salutary changes in disease; cures scrofula, salt rheum, all scorbutic disorders, chronic sore eyes, rheumatism, piles, liver complaints, erysipelas, all blotches and eruptions of the skin; in short, it removes every impurity of the blood, and all humours and morbid collections of the body.