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PILLS.

PILLS.

PlLULAE ALOES.

Take of Socotorine Aloes, and

Castile Soap, equal parts ;Conserve of Red Roses, asufficiency;Beat them into a proper pill mass. Thispill may be also correctly made with the finerqualities of East-Indian aloes, as the Soco-torine variety is very scarce ; and many, notwithout reason, prefer the stronger Barba-dos aloes.

PlLULAE ALOES ET ASSAPOETIDAE.

Take of Aloes (Socotorine or East-Indian);Assafcetida, andCastile Soap, equal parts ;

Beat them with Conserve of Red roses into

a proper pill mass.

PlLULAE ALOES ET FERRI.

Take of Sulphate of iron, three parts ;

Barbados aloes, two parts ;

Aromatic powder, six parts ;

Conserve of Red roses, eight parts ;Pulverize the aloes and sulphate of iron se-parately; mix the whole ingredients ; andbeat them into a proper mass ; which is tobe divided into five-grain pills.