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For a young woman in pthisis pulmonalis. |
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Some pills of opium, purpurea digitalis, & gum arabic ; the proportion
of opium not very considerable on account of the next article ; giving one
pill in the morning, another in the afternoon. |
| To be taken in water. |
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Antimonial wine 3 parts, laudanum 2 parts; taking 20 drops of the mixture
in the morning, & 30 at night. |
| Elixir of vitriol, 15 or 20 drops at night according as the sweats prevail. |
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Cream of tartar & flowers of sulphur to be used ; whenever costiveness
occurs; being taken in melasses.
For Miss Elizabeth Atkins
of Mount Vernon.
Oct. 19, 1802. |
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