Winebottleful

What must I do if, at market-time or on a Saturday night, a customer wants a pennyworth each of paregoric and syrup of squills, or a pennyworth of laudanum in a winebottleful of vinegar and treacle?

Put a breakfastcupful of good hops into a saucepan with four quarts of cold water; let it be boiled slowly for five hours, until it is reduced to three quarts, or four winebottlefuls, and then strain.

When there is much febrile excitement I usually begin with drop doses of tincture of aconite, repeated every three hours for a few times, and followed by the bichromate, one grain in a winebottleful of water, of which solution a wineglassful is given three times a day, and then as the symptoms yield only night and morning.

Where pecuniary considerations forbid a journey to the baths, I order the artificial Karlsbad salts (one to two teaspoonfuls in half a winebottleful of hot water, of the temperature of 122° to 126.5° Fahr.) to be taken in the morning before eating.

The form I have always recommended is a teaspoonfull^([sic]) of bicarbonate of soda and a tablespoonful of eau de Cologne in a quart (a winebottleful) of water, a little hot water being added, if required, to warm the small quantity poured out for use.