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Also a powerful sialogogue and valuable in diseases where mouth and throat get dry, and for sore throat; will relieve difficult breathing and produce moisture if given in very small doses of the powder.— Find Me A Cure
Ginger Ginger ia a sialogogue, carminative, and stimulant It is used internally in flatulent colic, dyspepsia, and to prevent the griping of medicines.— Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby
When chewed, it acts as a sialogogue, and is therefore useful in relaxed uvula Dose_, from ten to twenty grains of the powder_; of the tincture from ten minims to one drachm TO-DAY, HIS BEAUTEOUS VISAGE WE EXTOL 766.— Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby

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