Cache-Control: public, max-age=1024000 Buchan's Domestic Medicine : Composing Pill.

Composing Pill.

Take of purified opium, ten grains; Castile soap, half a drachm. Beat them together, and form the whole into twenty pills.

When a quieting draught will not sit upon the stomach, one, two, or three of these pills may be taken, as occasion requires.

William Buchan
Domestic Medicine 2nd edition 1785