These pills, as their title expresses, are chiefly intended for the jaundice, which, with the assistance of proper diet, they will often cure. Five or six of them may be taken twice a-day, more or less, as is necessary to keep the body open. It will be proper, however, during their use, to interpose now and then a vomit of ipecacuanha or tartar emetic.
Stomachic Pill.
Take extract of gentian, two drachms; powdered rhubarb and vitriolated tartar, of each one drachm; oil of mint, thirty drops; simple syrup, a sufficient quantity.
Three or four of these pills may be taken twice a-day, for invigorating the stomach, and keeping the body gently open.
Squill Pills.
Take powder of dried squills, a drachm and a half; gum ammoniac, and cardamom seeds, in powder, of each three drachms; simple syrup, a sufficient quantity.
In dropsical and asthmatic complaints, two or three of these pills may be taken twice a-day, or oftner, if the stomach will bear them.
Strengthening Pill.
Take soft extract of the bark, and salt of steel, each a drachm. Make into pills.
In disorders arising from excessive debility, or relaxation of the solids, as the chlorosis, or green-sickness, two of these pills may be taken three times a-day.