5384. Green Coloring Powder

5384.     Green Coloring Powder. Mix together 1 part indigo and 10 parts curcuma root, and reduce to a fine powder. (Hager.)

5385. Green Oil

5385.     Green Oil. Digest for 2 days, with frequent agitation, 1 part green coloring powder (see last receipt) in 20 parts olive oil. Decant the clear, and filter. Keep in glass bottles carefully stopped. Or: Boil 1 part fresh plantain in 8 parts olive oil, until crisp; press and filter. (Hager.)

Either of these will produce an oil whose appearance is identical with the oil of henbane, and is probably sometimes sold for it.

5386. Plunket's Ointment for Cancer

5386.    Plunket's Ointment for Cancer. "White arsenic, sulphur, powdered flowers of lesser spearwort and stinking chamomile, levigated together, and formed into a paste with white of egg.

5387. Hope's Camphor Mixture

5387.   Hope's Camphor Mixture. Take 4 ounces camphor water, 30 drops fuming nitric acid, and 20 to 40 drops tincture of opium. Dose, a table-spoonful every 2 hours.

5388. Murphy's Carminative

5388.     Murphy's Carminative. Take 4 pint tincture of valerian, 10 fluid drachms acetated tincture of opium, 128 grains pulverized camphor, 248 grains carbonate of potassa, 2 ounces carbonate of magnesia, 40 minims each oil of anise and oil of mint, and 14 pints water. Dose for an infant, 20 to 25 drops. This is said to be an improvement on Dewees' carminative. (See No. 5435 (Grimault's Matico Injection).)

5389. Eisenmann's Opiated Wine of Colchicum

5389.     Eisenmann's Opiated Wine of Colchicum. This consists of a mixture of 6 parts wine of colchicum seed and 1 part wine of opium.

5390. Pierlot's Solution of Valerianate of Ammonia

5390.     Pierlot's Solution of Valerianate of Ammonia. Dissolve 3 scruples extract of valerian in 7 fluid ounces spring water; add 3 fluid drachms fluid extract of valerian, and filter; then add 2 drachms valerianate of ammonia, 6 fluid drachms orange-flower water, and 6 fluid drachms simple syrup. Dose, 1 tea-spoonful 3 or 4 times a day.

5391. Brandreth's Pills

5391. Brandreth's Pills. According to Dr. Hager's analysis, these consist of 10 grains extract of may-apple, 30 grains poke berry juice, 10 grains saffron, 10 grains powdered may apple root, 15 grains powdered cloves, and 3 drops oil of peppermint. This is made into 30 pills with powdered liquorice root.

5392. Foucher's Dressing for Wounds

5392. Foucher's Dressing for Wounds. Dissolve 2 drachms chlorate of potassa in 4 fluid ounces glycerine, and add 24 ounces alcohol. This forms a clear liquid which is readily absorbed by linen, and does not soil the clothing. It keeps the dressings moist for 24 hours, is easily washed off with lukewarm water, and is well adapted for soft granulations.