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512. Nutritive. Take twelve ounces of strong beef tea, and thicken with hartshorn shavings or arrowroot. 513. Turpentine. Take half an ounce of oil of turpentine, the yolk of one egg, and half a pint of gruel. Mix the turpentine and egg, and then add the gruel. Use as an anthelmintic. 514. Common. Dissolve one ounce of salt in twelve ounces of gruel. 515. Castor Oil. Mix two ounces of castor oil with one drachm of starch, then rub them together, and add fourteen ounces of thin gruel. Use as a purgative. 516. Opium. Rub three grains of opium with two ounces of starch, then add two ounces of warm water. Use as an anodyne in colic, spasms, &c. 517. Oil. Mix four ounces of olive oil with half an ounce of mucilage and half a pint of warm water. Use as a demulcent. 518. Asafoetida. Mix one drachm of the tincture of asafoetida in a pint of barley water. Use as an anthelmintic, or in convulsions from teething. 519. Gargles. These are remedies used to stimulate chronic sore throats, or a relaxed state of the swallow, or uvula. 520. Acidulated. Mix one part of white vinegar with three parts of honey of roses, and twenty-four of barley water. Use in chronic inflammation of the throat, malignant sore throat, &c. 521. Astringent. Take two drachms of roses and mix with eight ounces of boiling water, infuse for one hour, strain, and add one drachm of alum and one ounce of honey of roses.