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Excerpt from A Hand-Book of Materia Medica and Therapeutics: With Twenty-Nine Illustrations; Being a Portion of an Analytical Compendium of the Various Branches of Medicine
The lighter powders may be administered suspended in/water, or any other convenient vehicle the heavy insoluble ones, in syrup, molasses, or honey.
Troches. (trochisci, U. S. - Small solid masses, in which the medicinal substance is incorporated with the sugar and gum, - ih tended to be held in the mouth and allowed slowly to dissolve. They are used chie¿y in affections of the throat.
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