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Beef Tea

[Recipe] Lean Beef cut into shreds 1 lb.

14. Water 1. qt.

Boil for 20 minutes taking

off the scum as it rises.

After it grows cold strain

the liquor. Very nourish-

ing and palatable.

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[Recipe]. Pulv. Rhei gr. 10

15. Magnesia [dram and a half]. Fiat. pulvis

To be taken in syrup or molasses

Laxative & antacid, used in

diarrhea, dyspepsia, &c.

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In the grieving bowel com

plaints of children with

green or sour stools.----

[Recipe] Mag. Calc. [half dram]

16. P. Rhei. gr VIII.

Sacch. alb. [1 dram]

Pulv. g. Arab. [half dram]

Ag. menth. [half ounce]

Ag. fontana [half ounce ?] Misce.

Dose. A tea spoon full.

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[Recipe] Magnes alb. XII. gr.

17. Sacch Alb. [2 drams].

Aqua. fontana. [1 ounce].

Terrel. Opii. g tt. III.

Tea spoonful for an infant--every 2

hours until relief is attained.

(Dewes.)