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She patient keeping moderately warm, and drinking after each dose aaraught of decoction of the woods, or of sarsaparilla.

Purging- Pills.—Take of succotrine aloes, and Castile soap, each tvvodrachms; of simple syrup, a sufficient quantity to make them intopills.—Four or five of these pills will generally prove a sufficient purge.For keeping the body gently open, one may be taken night andmorning. They are reckoned both deobstruent and stomachic, andwill be found to answer all the purposes of Dr. Anderson's pills, theprincipal ingredient of which is aloes.—Where aloetic purges are im-proper, the following pills may be used : Take extract of jalap, andvitriolated kali, of each two drachms; syrup of ginger, as much aswill make them of a proper consistence for pills.—These pills maybe taken in the same quantity as the above.

Pill for the Jaundice.—Take of Castile soap, succotrine aloes, andrhubarb, of each one drachm. Make them into pills with a sufficientquantity of syrup or mucilage.—These pills, as their title expresses,are chiefly intended for the jaundice, which, with the assistance ofproper diet they will often cure. Five or six of them may be takentwice a day, more or less, as is necessary to keep the body open. Itwill be proper however, during their use, to interpose now and thena vomit of ipecacuanha or tartarised antimony.

Stomach Pill.—Take of extract of gentian, two drachms : pow-dered rhubarb and vitriolated kali, of each one drachm ; oil of mint,thirty drops; simple syrup, a sufficient quantity.—Three or four ofthese pills may be taken twice a day, for invigorating the stomach,and keeping the body gently open.

Squill Pill—Take powder of dried squills, a drachm and a half;gum ammoniac, and cardamon seeds, in powder, of each threedrachms ; simple syrup, a sufficient quantity.—In dropsical and asth-matic complaints, two or three of these pills may be taken twice a-day, or oftener, if the stomach will bear them.

Strengthening Pill.—Take soft extract of the cinchona bark, andvitriolated iron, each a drachm, Make into pills.-—In disorders arisingfrom excessive debility, or relaxation of the solids, as the chlorosis,or green sickness, two of these pills may be taken three times a-day.

PLASTERS.

Plasteks ought to be of a different consistence, according to thepurposes for which they are intended. Such as are to be applied tothe breasts or stomach ought to be soft and yielding, while those de-signed for the limbs should be firm and adhesive. It has been suppos-ed that plasters might be impregnated with the virtues of differentvegetables, by boiling the scent vegetable with the oil employed forthe composition of the plaster ; but this treatment does not commu-nicate to the oils any valuable qualities. Calces of lead boiled withoils, unite with them into a plaster of a proper consistence, whichmake the basis of several other plasters. In boiling these composi-tions, a quantity of hot water must be added from time to timito prevent the plaster from burning or growing black. Thisnowever, should be done with care, lest it cause the matter to explode.

Litharge plaster formerly called Diachylon or Common Plaster.—