Milk is a very valuable remedy in consumption

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Source: The Book of the household [electronic resource] : or, Family dictionary of everything connected with housekeeping and domestic medicine : with the treatment of children, management of the sick room, the sanitary improvements of the dwelling, the duties of servants, and full information on all other subjects relating to personal and domestic comfort by University of Glasgow. Library (1862), paragraph-4192.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Asses' milk, to the amount of three or four pints daily, has been productive of considerable benefit, and buttermilk at the commencement of the disease has in many cases done much good
• In the early stage of the disease an emetic of from 10 to 15 grains of the sulphate of copper every second or third day in 2 ozs. of water has been attended with good effect
• During the intervals the patient may take two table-spoonsful four times a day of the following mixture : — Dissolve of myrrh 1 drachni, in a mortar, with spirit of pimento, 6 drachms ; dis- tilled water, 6^ ozs. ; then add subcarlionate of potass, I di-achm ; sulphate of iron, 12 grains: syrup, 2 drachms
• A spoonful of the following, when the cough is troublesome in the first stage of the disease, may also be given, viz. : — -Take almond mixture, 8 ozs. ; oxymel of squills, ^ oz. ; camphorated tincture of opium (paregoric), 2^ drachms ; and tincture of foxglove, 25 drops
• Or, sper- maceti, 2 drachms, and the yolk of an egg enough for solution ; then add pennyroyal water, 6 ozs. ; niti-ate of potass (nitre), 1 scruple ; tincture of foxglove, 50 drops; and syrup of tolu, ^oz
• Mix the following for ordinary drink: — Decoc- tion of barley, 2 pints ; gum arable, 3 drachms ; and syrup of lemon, 1^ oz

Method as extracted

1. Mix the following for ordinary drink: — Decoc- tion of barley, 2 pints ; gum arable, 3 drachms ; and syrup of lemon, 1^ oz.

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