Diaphoretic Bolus

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Source: Domestic medicine. Or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines : containing observations on the comparative advantages of vaccine inoculation, with instructions for performing the operation an essay, enabling puptured [sic] persons to manage themselves, with engravings of bandages, which every person may prepare for himself and a family herbal. To which are added, such useful discoveries ... as have transpired since the demise of the author by Buchan, William, 1729-1805. n 82060399 (1813), paragraph-4020.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• of gum guaiacum, in powder, ten grains ; flowers of sulphur and cream of tartar, of each one scruple; simple syrup, a sufficient quantify. — In rheumatic complaints, and disorders of the skin, this bolus may be taken twice a-day
• Mercurial Bolus.— -Take of calomel, six grains; conserve of roses, half a drachm
• Bolus of Rhubarb and Calomel.- — Take of the best rhubarb, in powder, from a scruple to half a drachm; of calomel, from four to six grains; simple syrup, a sufficient quantity to make a bolus.-— This is a proper purge in hypochondriac constitutions; but its principal intention is to expel worms
• Pectoral Bolus. — Take of spermaceti, a scruple ; gum ammoniac, ten grains; salt of hartshorn, six grains; simple syrup, as much as will make them into a bolus. — This bolus is given in colds and coughs of long stand- ing, asthmas, and beginning consumptions of the lungs
• Purging Bolus. — Take of jalap, in powder, a scruple; cream of tar- tar, two scruples

Method as extracted

1. Take of gum guaiacum, in powder, ten grains ; flowers of sulphur and cream of tartar, of each one scruple; simple syrup, a sufficient quantify. — In rheumatic complaints, and disorders of the skin, this bolus may be taken twice a-day.
2. Let tfiem be rubbed together, and formed into a bolus, with simple syrup. — Where a mild purge is wanted, this will answer the purpose very wrell.

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