Climate and Health in Hot Countries and the Outlines of Tropical Climatology / A Popular Treatise on Personal Hygiene in the Hotter Parts of the World, and on the Climates That Will Be Met Within Them.

by George Michael James Giles

Castor oil.

Castor oil with resorcin:—

℞	Ol. ricini	℥viii.
	Resorcin	ʒii.
Mix, and dissolve the resorcin by standing the bottle in hot water.

Citrate of potash.

Easton’s syrup, put up in a bottle marked to its dosage.

Ether sulphuric. This drug is too volatile for storage in the ordinary way in the Tropics and so should be put up in glass capsules each holding a drachm.

“Fever” or diaphoretic mixture:—

℞	Liq. ammon. acetatis fortior, B.P., 1885		ʒss.
	Sp. eth. nitrosi		♏xx.
	Potas. nitratis		gr. i.
	Water	to ʒii for each dose.
Dose.—To be put up in a bottle graduated to that dosage containing8 oz. of the mixture, and taken diluted with four or five times itsquantity of water.

Goa ointment:—

Goa powder		-	āā ʒss.
Acid salicylic
Lanolin			ad ℥i.