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Alterative Medicines - Victorian Health and Medicine
From 'The Dictionary of Daily Wants' - 1858-1859
ALTERATIVE MEDICINES are those which re-establish the health, and gradually
restore the decayed functions of the system, without producing perspiration, purging, or
other sensible evacuations. They are, in fact, medical remedies assuming the mildest form
for the purpose of assisting and cooperating with nature.
Alterative Powder.- Recipe: Dover's powder, fifteen grains; mercury
with chalk, twelve grains; divide into six powders, and take one every night. The
quantities of the ingredients specified are for a grown-up person; for a youth under
twenty they should be one-half less, and for a child under ten three-quarters less.
See BLUE PILL, CALOMEL, COD-LIVER OIL, GREY POWDER, SARSA-PARILLA, &C.
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The Victorian Hospital
by Lavinia Mitton
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