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Chipping, In Chickens

From The druggist's general receipt book (1886).

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From The druggist's general receipt book (1886), printed page 154, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/101501812.nlm.nih.gov

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Remove the chickens to a warm place.
  2. Mix 1 oz.
  3. of castor oil with 4 oz.
  4. syrup of ginger ;
  5. mix a teaspoonful of this with a little thick gruel, and force a little down several times a day, so that it shall get half a teaspoonful of the mixture in the course of the day.