CUTICURA RESOLVENT.

This preparation is said to be: 

Aloes, Socot           1 dram
Rhubarb Powdered       1 dram
Potas.  Iodidi         36 grains
Spirits Frumenti       1 pint

Macerate over night and filter.

The above amount exclusive of whisky would cost about 15 cents.

FOR FEVER.

Quinia Sulp   50 grains
Capsicum       6 grains

It will make twenty-five capsules.  Mix.  Dose:  One every three hours.

This has been used for years.  You should keep the bowels open to remove the cause.  The above amount would cost about 25 cents.

[Patent medicines 475]

ELY’S CREAM BALM.

This is a proprietary article, largely advertised in the Eastern states, and meets with rapid sales and is used for catarrh.  The directions are to dip the little finger into the balm and insert up the nostrils giving two or three inhalations.  It is as follows: 

Thymol                 3 grains
Bismuth Carbonatis    15 grains
Oil of Wintergreen     2 minims
Vaselin to make        1 ounce

The above amount would cost about 25 cents.

FOR SORE THROAT.

Listerine            2 ounces
Glycerin            1/2 ounce
Pure Water to make    4 ounces

Mix.  Use as a gargle.

This will cure any ordinary case, but do not mistake sore throat for diphtheria.  The above amount would cost about 25 cents.

FELLOW’S HYPOPHOSPHITES.

Glucose                     1 lb. 
Simple Syrup                1 pint
Hypophosphite Calcium     128 grains
Hypophosphite Potassium    48 grains
Ferri Sulp                 48 grains
Sulphate Manganese         32 grains
Sulphate Quinine           14 grains
Sulphate Strychnine         2 grains
Water                      sufficient

Dissolve the calcium and potassium hypophosphites in two fluid ounces of warm water.  Add to one ounce of water, three fluid ounces of the syrup and dissolve in the mixture, by the aid of heat, the remainder of the salts.  Mix the solutions and set by a few hours, covered, to deposit the sulphate of calcium which is formed.  Filter into bottle containing the remainder of the syrup, wash the residue with an ounce of boiling water, mix filtrate and washings with the syrup; dissolve the glucose in the mixture, and add through the filter enough water to make two pints.  The formula would be improved by substituting for the glucose, a refined extract of malt like that prepared by Gebe, in Germany.  The proportion of the medicinal ingredients in the syrup it is true is small; I shall not warrant it to perform miracles of cure.  It is simply offered as a substitute for Fellow’s Hypophosphites; whatever therapeutic efficiency that nostrum has, we may count upon obtaining equally from this syrup.