Oil of caraway seeds, six drops

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Source: The medical guide, for the use of families and young practitioners in medicine and surgery : being a complete system of modern domestic medicine, exhibiting a comprehensive view of the latest and most important discoveries in medicine, pharmacy, &c. Fourth edition, considerably enlarged and improved by Reece, Richard, 1775-1831. nr 93032726 (1807), paragraph-2554.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• If the smallest dose exceed this operation, they should be only used as an occasional aperient medicine, to obviate costiveness, and three table- spoonfuls of the following mixture taken three times a day : — Take of gum myrrh, Prepared natron, of each one drachm
• Salt of steel, one scruple

Method as extracted

1. Mix well together, and divide into thirty pills, two to be taken twice a day : the dose should be increased, diminished, or repeated, so as to produce not less than one or more than two motions in twenty-four hours.

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