The ingredients in an oxymel should be of such a character, and in such proportions, as to produce a mixture of the proper consistence without evaporation.
Oxymel of verdigris is stimulant, detergent, and escharotic.
On the 15th of November a blister was laid over the sternum, and ʒiss of oxymel scillitic.
A troublesome cough--Syrup of garlic and oxymel of squills.
Pour a little simple oxymel (an article sold by druggists) into a common tumbler glass, and place in the glass a piece of cap paper, made into the shape of the upper part of a funnel, with a hole at the bottom to admit the flies.
Mix two tea-spoonfuls of paregoric elixir, one table-spoonful of oxymel of squills, and the same quantity of water and mucilage of gum-arabic.
Mix two ounces of oxymel of stramonium with six ounces of the decoction of Iceland moss; take a dessert-spoonful when the cough is troublesome.
To one Ounce of Oxymel of Squills, add five Ounces of a strong Infusion of Elder Flowers.
Some Persons are bold enough to recommend Vomits in such Cases; but they are not without their Inconvenience; and it is not as a Vomit that I recommend the Oxymel of Squills in them.
Ginger two drams, with Oxymel simplex, so much as is sufficient, make it into troches according to art.
Oxymel of Squills simple, is made of three pounds of clarified Honey; Vinegar of Squills two pounds, boil them according to art.
As they were apt to obstruct the free Expectoration, we generally mixed them with some oxymel scilliticum, or tinctura foetida, which took off a good deal of their suffocating Quality.
In December, 1761, we had a Case of this Kind where the oxymel scilliticum was of remarkable Service.
Mix three drachms of ipecacuanha wine with half an ounce of oxymel of squills, the same quantity of spirits of tolu, one ounce of mucilage, and two ounces of water.
Syrup of poppies, oxymel of squills, simple oxymel, in equal parts, mixed, and a teaspoonful taken when the cough is troublesome.
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