Essence of peppermint: 10-15 m. on sugar; exhilarating, warming and antispasmodic.
Extract of bark: 10-30 m. in wineglassful water; valuable tonic in neuralgia and fever.
Friar’s balsam: ½-1 dr. with sugar and egg-yolk, stimulating expectorant; applied on cuts.
Glycerine: may replace sugar for sweetening drinks and medicines; much used for softening the skin.
Goulard’s extract: 5 m. in wineglassful water as an eyewash; 1 in 40 of water, astringent, applied to bruises and sprains as a wash.
Gregory’s powder: 1 tea. in wineglassful water, cooling mild aperient.
Grey powder: 3-5 gr. (adult); aperient, acting on the liver.
Ipecacuanha powder: 15 gr. emetic.
Ditto wine: 10-20 m., expectorant for coughs; 1 table. (adults), repeated at 10 minutes intervals, emetic.
Jalapine: 2-6 gr., aperient for children.