Asks for a bottle to be filled with spirits of wine.
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Asks for a bottle to be filled with spirits of wine.
Requests a mixture of verdigris, sal ammoniac, and lamp-black.
Orders a very small pot of "purest & best Extract of Hyosciamus for experimental purposes".
Requests hydrated magnesia.
Orders vaseline and pomatum – the latter to put on his beard, which in dry weather feels uncomfortably harsh.
Orders morphia pills in case of severe pain, which he hopes may never occur.
Orders two bottles of "the simple Antispasmodic" and "the Glycerin Pepsin mixture". Andrew Clark wishes him to commence his physic at once.