“ Take of opium, #wo drachms ; tincture of balsam of tolu,

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Source: The London dispensatory, containing: I, the elements of pharmacy; II, the botanical description ... and medicinal properties, of the substances of the materia medica; III, the pharmaceutical preparations and compositions of the pharmacopoeias of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Colleges of Physicians by Thomson, Anthony Todd, 1778-1849 (1830), paragraph-10313.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• half an ounce ; simple syrup, eight ounces ; extract of liquorice, softened by hot water, gum-arabic in powder, of each, five ounces
• Six troches contain one grain of opium ; and from six to ten may be taken in twenty-four hours
• Gum Troches. «“ Tak of gum-arabic, four parts ; starch, one part ; refined sugar, twelve parts

Method as extracted

1. Rub the whole to powder, and form it into a mass with rose-water fit for forming troches.” These troches are simple demulcents, and answer sufficiently well for allaying the tickling irritation of the fauces which ex- cites coughing.

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