Volume 102 — RECEIPT AGAINST INFLUENZA.
Reading edition
DEAR SIR,—I send you this gratis. It is for everybody's benefit,
Yours. GEORGE GUZZLETON, X.M.D.
P.S.—I give "Coenæ prescriptionem" only, as the "Prescrip: prandialis" can be taken out of this with variations.
Ostr: frigid: 1½ doz.
Pisc: anima: locus aut quid: ali: āāā xvi ʒ
Cum: pom: terr: fervesc: f 8ʒ
Ad Hoc: bib: sextarium ½ mx.
Ovem: torrid: virides: ad. lib. ℥ss.
Per: dix: anas: agrestis: } fʒij.
Condim: pan: aut aliquid: fvijss.
Prunosus: botulus: āāf ʒvj.
Condim: prand: aut lact: Devonii: f 3 j.
Liq. Pomm: et Gr: '84 } Oj 4
Aut Mo: et Chand: '84
Fiat haust: sec: vel test: quâque horâ: extra horâ coenæ: regulariter sumendum.
Si opus sit: Misce: aq: sodæ .. ʒ1/14.
Misce: ot: grog: h.s.s. Si opus sit aut non.
LITERARY GARDENING.—A Correspondent, signing himself "STULTUS IN HORTU OR HORT-U-NOT?" writes, "Please, Sir, if my boy JOHN plant 'a slip of a pen,' what will it come up?" Answer paid—A Jonquill.