Take of linseed-tea and new milk, each six ounces. Mix them.
If fifty or sixty drops of laudanum be added to this, it will supply the place of the Anodyne Clyster.
Laxative Clyster.
Take of milk and water, each six ounces; sweet oil or fresh butter, and brown sugar, of each two ounces. Mix them.
If an ounce of Glauber’s salt, or two table-spoonfuls of common salt, be added to this, it will be the Purging Clyster.
Carminative Clyster.
Take of camomile flowers, an ounce; anise-seeds, half an ounce. Boil in a pint and a half of water to one pint.
In hysteric and hypochondriac complaints this may be administered instead of the Fœtid Clyster, the smell of which is so disagreeable to most patients.
Oily Clyster.
To four ounces of the infusion of camomile flowers, add an equal quantity of Florence oil.