calomel and pills are the great panacea for all their bodily ills.
A grain of calomel and a grain of opium for ten successive nights.
And then one grain of calomel and one of opium every night for ten successive nights.
One grain of calomel and one of opium for ten successive nights.
calomel three grains every third day, with infusion of senna.
Emetic, cathartic with calomel; then sorbentia, chalybeates, Peruvian bark.
In the oxide zone, native mercury and the chloride, calomel, are formed.
If there is constipation, the opium should be mixed with 30 grains of calomel.
I'll go out and see him again in a couple of days and give him a dose of calomel.
Quinine and calomel are essentials and may be bought in Nairobi.
old name for mercurous chloride, 1670s, from French calomel, supposedly (Littré) from Greek kalos "fair" + melas "black;" but as the powder is yellowish-white this seems difficult. "It is perhaps of significance that the salt is blackened by ammonia and alkalis" [Flood].
calomel cal·o·mel (kāl'ə-měl', -məl)
n.
A colorless, white or brown tasteless compound used as a purgative and an insecticide. Also called mercurous chloride.