--Confections and Electuaries.
--Confections are used as vehicles for the administration of more active medicines, and Electuaries are made for the purpose of rendering some remedies palatable. Both should be kept in covered jars.
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--Almond Confection.
--Remove the outer coat from 1 oz of sweet almonds, and pound them well in a mortar with 1 drachm of powdered gum Arabic, and half an oz of white sugar. ~ Use to make a demulcent mixture known as ''almond emulsion.''
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--Alum Confection.
--Mix 2 scruples of powdered alum with 4 scruples of treacle. ~ Dose, half a drachm. ~ Use as astringent in sore throat, relaxed uvula, and ulcerations of mouth.
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--Orange 🍊 Confection.
--Take 1 oz of the freshly-rasped rind of orange, and mix it with 3 oz of white sugar, and beat till perfectly incorporated. ~ Dose, from 1 drachm to an oz. ~ Use as a gentle stomaching and tonic, and as a vehicle for administering tonic powders.
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--Senna Confection. 1.
--Take of senna, powdered, 4 oz; figs, half a lb; cassia pulp, tamarind pulp, and the pulp of prunes, each 4 oz; coriander seeds, powdered, 2 oz; liquor ice root, 1 oz and a half; sugar, 1 lb and a qtr; water, 1 pint and a half. Rub the senna with the coriander and separate, by sifting, 5 oz of the mixture. Boil the water, with the figs and liquor ice added, until it is reduced to one half; then press out and strain the liquor. Evaporate the strained liquor in a jar by boiling until 12 fluid oz remain; then add the sugar, and make a syrup. Now mix the pulps with the syrup, add the sifted powder, and mix well. ~ Use as a purgative. ~ Dose, 1 to 2 tea spn, most useful in constipation.
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--Senna Confection. 2.
--A more simple confection, but equally efficacious, may be made in the following manner :- Infuse 1 oz of senna leaves in 1 pint of boiling water, pouring the water on the leaves in a covered mug or jug, or even an old eartgenware teapot. Let the infusion stand till it is cold, then strain off the liquor, and place it in a saucepan or stewpan,adding to it 1 lb of prunes. Let the prunes stew gently by the side of the 🔥 fire till the liquor is entirely absorbed. ~ Use as a purgative or laxative, giving half a tea spn to little children, and a tea spn to children over ten years of age, and from 2 to 4 tea spn to adults.
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--Castor Oil and Senna Confection.
--Take 1 drachm of powdered gum arabic, and 2 oz of confection of senna, and mix, by gradually rubbing together in a mortar, with half an oz of castor oil. ~ Dose, from half a table spn to 2 table spn. ~ Use as purgative.
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--Sulphur and Senna Confection.
--Take of sulphur and sulphate of Potash, each half an oz; confection of senna, 2 table spn; oil of aniseed, 20 minims; mix well. ~ Dose, from 1 to 2 tea spn. ~ Use as a purgative.
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--Cream of Tartar Confection.
--Take 1 oz of cream of tartar, 1 drachm of jalap, and half a drachm of powdered ginger; mix into a thick paste with treacle. ~ Dose, 2 tea spn. ~ Use as a strong purgative.
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~ <EWUE 118th Ed. HJLtd Pub. 1933>
--[Warning Note: - these excerts of home remedies are not advisory, and are from 85years ago. The responsibility of use is the reader's.]
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--{a minim, us a fluid scruple, and without an 'old' minim tube, extremely hard to measure due to the various viscosities of liquids. It was dropped completely from use in UK, in Weights and Measures Act of 1963. It was devolved as a measure in 1791 for a means to have equality of size of a 'drop'. ~ for the practical, a reminder :- 1 lb = 12 oz; 1 oz = 8 drachm; 1 drachm = 3 scruples, (1 fluid drachm = 1/8 fluid oz); (1 minim = 1 fluid scruple) 1 scruple = 20 grain.}
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