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Preparations and Compositions. Part III.

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stance that can be added, to give it the proper consistence formaking piils. When extract of gentian is triturated with a-loes, they re-act upon each other, and become too soft to formpills, so that the addition of any syrup to the mass, as direct-ed by the London college, is perfectly unnecessary ; unless,at the same time, some powder be added to give it consis-tency.

Aloetic pills are much used as warm and stomachic laxa-tives ; they are very well suited for the costiveness so oftenattendant on people of sedentary lives, and, upon the whole,are one of the most useful articles in the materia medica.

PlLUL^ ALOES ET A8SJE F03T[D"E. Ed.

Pills of Aloes and AssaJ'cetida.Take of

Socotorine aloes, in powder,

Assafcetida,

Soap, equal parts.Form them into a mass, with mucilage of gum arabic.

These pills, in doses of about (on grains, twice a-day, pro-duce the most salutary effects in cases of dyspepsia, attendedwith flatulence and costiveness.

PlLULiE ALOES CUM COL0CYNTH1DE. Ed.

Pills of Aloes with Colocynth.Take of

Socotorine aloes,

Scammony, of each eight parts ;

Colocynth, four parts;

Oil of cloves,

Sulphate of potass with sulphur, of each one part.Reduce the aloes and scammony into a powder, with the

salt; then let the colocynth, beat into a very fine powder,

and the oil be added : lastly, make it into a proper mass

with mucilage of gum arabic.

PlLULiE COLOCYNTHIDIS COMPOSITE.

Compound Pills of Colocynth.Take of

Pith of colocynth, half an ounce:Hepatic aloes,

Scammony, each one ounce;Castile soap, two drachms;Oil of cloves, one drachm.

Dub.