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Diaphoretics

and preparations of antimony, combined in this manner it is the
most safe, certain, and powerfull diaphoretic we have. A
combination of Laudanum and Antimonial Wine has been proposed and
is verry good but far inferior to the former. The usual form in
which opium is employ'd is in the form of the celebrated Dover's
Powders, the following is the formula.

Rx
Opium Purificat Ʒ i [1 dram]
Ipecacuanha Pulv Ʒ i [1 dram]
Sulp. Pottassae Ʒ viij [8 drams]

M And give for a dose 10 or 12
grains every two or three hours. Opium
has also been combined with many other
articles, but at all times with the Same view "to determine to the skin."