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469. CASTOR OIL AND SENNA CONFECTION..-Take one drachm of powdered gum arabic, and two ounces of confection of senna, and mix, by gradually

464. ALUM CONFECTION.-Mix two scruples of powdered alum with four scruples of treacle. Dose, half a drachm. Use, as an astringent in sore throat and relaxed uvula, and ulcerations of the mouth.

465. ORANGE CONFECTION.-Take one ounce of the freshly rasped rind of orange, and mix it with three ounces of white sugar, and beat together till perfectly incorporated. Dose, from one drachm to one ounce. Use, as a gentle stomachic and tonic, and for giving tonic powders in.

466. BLACK PEPPER CONFECTION. -Take of black pepper and elecampane root, each one ounce; fennel seeds, three ounces; honey and sugar, of each two ounces. Rub the dry ingredients to a fine powder, and when the confection is wanted, add the honey, and mix well. Dose, from one to two drachms. Use, in hæmorrhoids, or piles.

467. COWHAGE.-Mix as much of the fine hairs or spicule of cowhage into treacle as it will take up. Dose, a teaspoonful every morning and evening. Use, as an anthelmintic.

468. SENNA CONFECTION.-Take of senna, powdered, four ounces; figs, half a pound, cassia pulp, tamarind pulp, and the pulp of prunes, each four ounces; coriander seeds, powdered, two ounces; liquorice root, one ounce and a half; sugar, one pound and a quarter; water, one pint and a half. Rub the senna with the coriander, and separate, by sifting, five ounces of the mixture. Boil the water, with the figs and liquorice added, until it is reduced to one half; then press out and strain the liquor. Evaporate the strained liquor in a jar by boiling until twelve fluid ounces remain; then add the sugar, and make a syrup. Now mix the pulps with the syrup, add the sifted powder, and mix well. Use, purgative.

an ounce of castor oil. Dose, from half an ounce to an ounce. Use, purgative.

470. SULPHUR AND SENNA CONFECTION.-Take of sulphur and sulphate of potash, each half an ounce; of confection of senna, two ounces; and oil of aniseed, twenty minims; mix well. Dose, from one to two drachms. Use, purgative.

471. CREAM OF TARTAR CONFECTION.-Take one ounce of cream of tartar, one drachm of jalap, and half a drachm of powdered ginger; mix into a thick paste with treacle. Dose, two drachms. Use, purgative.

ELECTUARY.

472. ANTISPASMODIC -Take six drachms of powdered valerian and orange leaves, mixed and made into an electuary, with a sufficient quantity of syrup of wormwood. Dose, from one to two drachms, to be taken two or three times a day.

473. Decoctions.-These should only be made as they are wanted; pipkins or tin saucepans should be used for the purpose; and no decoction should be boiled longer than ten minutes.

474. CHIMAPHILA.-Take one ounce of pyrola (chimaphila, or winter-green), and boil it in a pint and a half of water until it is only one pint; then strain. Dose, from one to two ounces, four times a day. Use, in dropsies, as a diuretic.

475. LOGWOOD.-Boil one ounce and a half of bruised logwood in two pints of water until it comes to one pint; then add one drachm of bruised cassia, and strain. Dose, from one to two ounces. Use, as an astringent.

476. DANDELION.-Take two ounces of the freshly-sliced root, and boil in two pints of water until it comes to one pint; then add one ounce of compound tincture of horseradish. Dose, from two to four ounces. Use, in a sluggish state of the liver.

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ternally as local stimulants, to relieve deep-seated inflammations when other means cannot be employed, as they are more easily applied locally.

478. ANODYNE AND DISCUTIENT.Take two drachms of scraped white soap, half a drachm of extract of henbane, and dissolve them by a gentle heat in six ounces of olive oil. Use, about half an ounce to be well rubbed into the part twice a day, for glandular enlargements which are painful and stubborn.

479. STRONG AMMONIATED. - Add one ounce of strong liquid ammonia (Liquoris ammonia fortius) to two ounces of olive oil; shake them well together until they are properly mixed. Use, employed as a stimulant in rheumatic pains, paralytic numbnesses, chronic glandular enlargements, lumbago, sciatica, &c. This embrocation must be used with care, and only employed in very obstinate cases.

AMMONIATED.

480. COMPOUND Add six drachms of oil of turpentine to the strong ammoniated liniment above. Use, for the diseases mentioned under the head of strong ammoniated liniment, and chronic affections of the knee and ankle joints.

481. LIME AND OIL.-Take equal parts of common linseed oil and lime water (Liquor calcis), and shake well. Use, applied to burns, scalds, sun peelings, &c.

482. CAMPHORATED.-Take half an ounce of camphor and dissolve it in two ounces of olive oil. Use, as a stimulant, soothing application, in stubborn breasts, glandular enlargements, dropsy of the belly, and rheumatic pains.

483. SOAP LINIMENT WITH SPANISH FLIES.-Take three ounces and a half of soap liniment, and half an ounce of tincture of Spanish flies; mix and shake well. Use, as a stimulant to chronic bruises, sprains, rheumatic pains, and indolent swellings.

484. TURPENTINE. Take two ounces and a half of resin cerate (Ceratum resinæ), and melt it by standing the vessel in hot water; then add one ounce and a half of oil of turpentine, and mix.

Use, as a stimulant application to ulcers, burns, scalds, &c.

485. Enemas.-These are a peculiar kind of medicines, administered by injecting them into the rectum or outlet of the body. The intention is either to empty the bowels, kill worms, protect the lining membrane of the intestines from injury, restrain copious discharges, allay spasms in the bowels, or to nourish the body. These clysters, or glysters, are administered by means of bladders and pipes, or a proper apparatus.

486. LAXATIVE.-Take two ounces of Epsom salts, and dissolve in three quarters of a pint of gruel, or thin broth, with an ounce of olive oil. Use, as all enemas are used.

Take twelve

487. NUTRITIVE. ounces of strong beef tea, and thicken with hartshorn shavings or arrowroot.

488. TURPENTINE.-Take half an ounce of oil of turpentine, the yolk of one egg, and half a pint of gruel. Mix the turpentine and egg, and then add the gruel. Use, as an anthelmintic.

489. COMMON.-Dissolve one ounce of salt in twelve ounces of gruel.

490. CASTOR OIL.-Mix two ounces of castor oil with one drachm of starch, then rub them together, and add fourteen ounces of thin gruel. Use, purgative.

491. OPIUM.-Rub three grains of opium with two ounces of starch, then add two ounces of warm water. Use, as an anodyne, in colic, spasms, &c.

492. OIL.-Mix four ounces of olive oil with half an ounce of mucilage and half a pint of warm water. Use, as a

demulcent.

493. ASSAFOETIDA.-Mix one drachm of the tincture of assafoetida in a pint of barley water. Use, as an anthelmintic, or in convulsions from teething.

494. Gargles.-These are remedies used to stimulate chronic sore throats, or a relaxed state of the swallow, or uvula.

495. ACIDULATED.-Mix one part of white vinegar with three parts of honey of roses, and twenty-four of barley water. Use, in chronic inflam

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496. ASTRINGENT. Take drachms of roses and mix with eight ounces of boiling water, infuse for one hour, strain, and add one drachm of alum and one ounce of honey of roses. Use, in severe sore throat, relaxed uvula, &c.

497. FOR SALIVATION.-Mix from one to four drachms of bruised gall-nuts with a pint of boiling water, and infuse for two hours, then strain and sweeten.

498. TONIC AND STIMULANT.-Mix six ounces of decoction of bark with two ounces of tincture of myrrh, and half a drachm of diluted sulphuric acid. Use, in scorbutic affections.

&c.

507. STIMULANT. Dissolve one drachm of caustic potash in one pint of water, and then gradually pour it upon twenty-four grains of camphor and one drachm of sugar, previously bruised together in a mortar. Used as in fungoid and flabby ulcers.

508. ORDINARY.-Mix one drachm of salt with eight ounces of water. Used for foul ulcers and flabby wounds.

509. COLD EVAPORATING. - Add two drachms of Goulard's extract (Liquor plumbi diacetatis), and the same quantity of sulphuric ether (Ether sulphuricus), to a pint of cold water. Use, as a lotion for contusions, sprains, inflamed parts, &c.

510. HYDROCHLORATE OF AMMONIA.

500. MYRRH.-Add six drachms of tincture of myrrh to seven ounces of infusion of linseed, and then add one drachm of diluted sulphuric acid. Use, as a detergent.

501. FOR SLIGHT INFLAMMATION OF THE THROAT.-Add one drachm of sulphuric ether to half an ounce of syrup of marsh-mallows, and six ounces of barley water. This may be used frequently.

(Ammonia hydrochloras) in six ounces of water, then add an ounce of distilled vinegar and the same quantity of rectified spirit. Use, as a refrigerant.

511. YELLOW LOTION.-Dissolve one grain of corrosive sublimate (Hydrargyri chloridum, A VIOLENT POISON) in an ounce of lime water, taking care to bruise the crystals of the salt in order to assist its solution. Use, as a detergent.

512. BLACK WASH. Add half a drachm of calomel to four ounces of lime water, or eight grains to an ounce of lime water; shake well. Use, as a detergent.

503. EMOLLIENT.-Use decoction of marsh-mallow or linseed.

504. ELDER FLOWERS.-Add two drachms and a half of elder flowers to one quart of boiling water, infuse for one hour, and strain. Use, as a dis

cutient.

and a drachm of powdered opium, mix, and add an ounce of vinegar and four ounces of warm water, set aside for an hour, then filter. Use, as an astringent.

514. CREOSOTE.-Add a drachm of creosote to a pint of water, and mix by shaking. Use, as an application in tinea capitis, or other cutaneous diseases.

515. GALLS.- Boil one drachm of bruised galls in twelve ounces of water until only half a pint remains, then strain, and add one ounce of laudanum. Use, as an astringent and sedativo.

ounces of camphor mixture, one drachm of powdered nitre; add five ounces of the decoction of broom, with six drachms of sweet spirits of nitre, and three drachms of tincture of squills; mix. Dose, one teaspoonful every two hours, or two tablespoonfuls every three hours. Use, excellent in dropsies.

585. COUGH.-Dissolve three grains of tartar emetic and fifteen grains of opium in one pint of boiling water, then add four ounces of treacle, two ounces of vinegar, and one pint more of boiling water. Dose, from two teaspoonfuls to two tablespoonfuls, according to circumstances, every three hours, or three times a day. Use, in common catarrh, bronchitis, and irritable cough.

536. COUGH (FOR CHILDREN).-Mix three drachms of ipecacuanha wine with half an ounce of oxymel of squills, the same quantity of syrup of tolu, one ounce of mucilage, and two ounces of water. Dose, one teaspoonful for children under one year, two teaspoonfuls from one to five years, and a tablespoonful from five years, every time the cough is trouble

some.

537. ANTI-SPASMODIC.- Dissolve fifty grains of camphor in two drachms of chloroform, and then add two drachms of compound tincture of lavender, six drachms of mucilage of gum arabic, eight ounces of aniseed, cinnamon, or some other aromatic water, and two ounces of distilled water; mix well. Dose, one tablespoonful every half hour if necessary. Use, in cholera in the cold stage, when cramps are severe, or exhaustion very great; and as a general anti-spasmodic in doses of one dessert spoonful when the spasms are severe.

538. TONIC AND STIMULANT.-Dissolve one drachm of extract of bark, and half a drachm of powdered gum arabic, in six ounces of water, and then add one ounce of syrup of marsh-mallow, and the same quantity of syrup of tolu. Dose, one tablespoonful every three hours. Use, after fevers and catarrhs.

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down in three ounces and a half of peppermint water, then add sal volatile and compound tincture of gentian, cach one drachm and a half; mix. Dose, from one to one ounce and a half. Use, as a tonic, stimulant, and stomachic.

540. Drinks.

541. TAMARIND.-Boil two ounces of the pulp of tamarinds in two pints of milk, then strain. Use, as a refrigerant drink.

542. TAMARIND.-Boil two ounces of the pulp in two pints of warm water, and allow it to get cold, then strain. Use, refrigerant.

543. Powders.

544. COMPOUND SODA.--Mix twentyfour grains of calomel, thirty-six grains of sesqui-carbonate of soda, and one drachm of compound chalk powder, together. Divide into twelve powders. One of the powders to be given for a dose when required. Use, as a mild purgative for children during teething.

545. TONIC.-Mix one drachm of powdered rhubarb with the same quantity of dried carbonate of soda, then add two drachms of powdered calumba root. Dose, from ten to twenty grains as a tonic after fevers, in all cases of debility, and dyspepsia attended with acidity.

546. RHUBARB AND MAGNESIA.Mix one drachm of powdered rhubarb with two drachms of carbonate of magnesia, and half a drachm of ginger. Dose, from fifteen grains to one drachm. Use, as a purgative for children.

547. SULPHUR AND POTASH.-Mix one drachm of sulphur with four scruples of bicarbonate of potash, and two scruples of nitre. Dose, from half a drachm to one drachm. Use, as a purgative, diuretic, and refrigerant.

548. ANTI-DIARRHOEAL.-Mix one grain of powdered ipecacuanha, and one grain of powdered opium, with the same quantity of camphor. Dose, one of these powders to be given in jam, treacle, &c., once or twice a day; but