Note 92 — CHAP. I.

The form of administering this medicine was to add twenty drops of thebaic tincture, from half a grain to a grain of emetic tartar, and from five to ten grains of nitre, to two ounces of water or camphorated julep, of which one half was given about two hours before the common hour of rest, and the remainder at that hour. If spiritus Mindereri is preferred to the nitre, it may be given from two drachms to half an ounce for a dose, and it is better to administer it separately; for if it should not be exactly neutralized, it may decompose the antimonial, and render it inactive.