Diarrhea

• Cut up a dozen green persimmons with an ounce of red oak bark,
• boil these in a pint of water till reduced one - half,
• add one ounce of gum Arabic and
• half a pound of white sugar.

Boil the mixture with a teacupful of the syrup from black-berry preserves down to a stiff candy.

Sift coarse white sugar on a clean sheet of white paper, and drop the candy on it in the form of lozenges.

Let the patient eat three or four each day.