BOLUS DIAPHORETICUS, a Diaphoretic Bolus

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Source: An introduction to physic and surgery: containing. I. Medicinal institutions, or physiology, hygieine, pathology, semeiotice, and therapeutice. II. A compendious system of anatomy III. A general account of woods, ulcers, tumours, operations, and dressings; as also, the medicines used in surgery. IV. Botany and the materia medica. V. Pharmacy, as well chemical as Galenical. VI. A dispensatory, containing a great variety of the most efficacious officinal compositions, and extemporaneous prescripti by Brookes, Richard, active 1750 (1754), paragraph-3271.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• com¬ pound Powder of Contrayerva and crude Sal Ammoniac, of each 3j
• Extract of Guaiac 3ij. of volatile Salt of Hartfhorn gr, vii. of Syrup of Cloves enough to make a Bolus
• of frefh Squills gr. vi of compound Powder of Arum gr. x. of" Gmo-er gr. v. of Syrup of Orange-peel q. i. make a Bolus. iMeact direds this as diuretic in a Dropfy
• of Cantharides gr iv. of Nitre gr. x. of Camphire gr. i

Method as extracted

1. Take com¬ pound Powder of Contrayerva and crude Sal Ammoniac, of each 3j.
2. Take Extract of Guaiac 3ij. of volatile Salt of Hartfhorn gr, vii. of Syrup of Cloves enough to make a Bolus.
3. Mix them.
4. Take of frefh Squills gr. vi of compound Powder of Arum gr. x. of" Gmo-er gr. v. of Syrup of Orange-peel q. i. make a Bolus. iMeact direds this as diuretic in a Dropfy.
5. Take of Cantharides gr iv. of Nitre gr. x. of Camphire gr. i.

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