Dose.—Fl. ext. 10–20 ♏︎. The Hinkle pill contains cascara.
Castor Oil. Oil expressed from the seeds of the castor plant. A cathartic. Acts in four or five hours.
Dose.—For adults, ½ oz. to 1 oz. For infants 10 to 60 drops given with a dropper—not with a spoon.
Castor oil cocktail.—Rinse out the glass with lemon juice or whiskey. Pour in teaspoonful of lemon juice and a teaspoonful of whiskey, add castor oil in amount required, cover with whiskey and give.
A paste is made from the mixture of castor oil and bismuth subnitrate in equal parts, which is an excellent preparation for sore nipples.
Cerium Oxalate (and Cerium Valerianate). Sedative and nerve tonic. The oxalate is a white crystalline powder, odorless and tasteless.
Uses.—Vomiting of pregnancy, seasickness.
Dose.—2–10 gr. several times daily.
Charcoal. Administered in tablet form or as a powder between two slices of buttered bread.
Uses.—Acid stomach. Vomiting of pregnancy.