Draught of Common salt

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Source: A manual of pharmacy by Brande, William Thomas, 1788-1866 (1833), narrative-offset-510240.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Common salt: Its use and advantages as a condiment are universally known —as a medicine, a draught of salt-water taken in the morning fasting has been successfully resorted to as a remedy for worms —even the tape-worm has been thus expelled ; practitioners, however, generally resort to more effective anthelmintics. Ex- ternally applied, salt and water will sometimes disperse indo- lent glandular tumours and wens: a piece of flann

Method as extracted

1. Mix according to the source passage: Its use and advantages as a condiment are universally known —as a medicine, a draught of salt-water taken in the morning fasting has been successfully resorted to as a remedy for worms —even the tape-worm has been thus expelled ; practitioners, however, generally resort to more effective anthelmintics. Ex- ternally applied, salt and water will sometimes disperse indo- lent glandular tumours and wens: a piece of flannel moistened with brine should, in such cases, be kept continually on the art. i A pound of salt dissolved in a gallon of water produces a brine nearly equivalent in strength to sea-water, of which a pint contains— Common salt.....seseee.

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