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Or, with one part of pitch, and two parts each of lard and sulphur.

Eel Oil, procured by roasting eels, is employed as an unguent for stiffjoints, and by ironmongers to preserve polished steel from rust.

Effervescing Draught is what may be called an apology for sodawater. Dissolve 3j of subcarbonate of potass, or soda, in 5J ofwater, and 5ij of cinnamon water with ^jss of syrup of orange-peel.Add a table-spoonful of fresh lemon juice, and drink immediately.It is cooling in fever, &e.

Egyptiacum. See Linimentum jEruginis.

El^eosacchara. An old term for preparations made by triturating ina mortar 5ss of any essential oil with Jjss of powdered white sugar,and sometimes an ounce or so of magnesia. In this way are pre-pared Elaeosaccharum succini, anethi, anisi, carui, cinnamomi, pulegii,origani, &c.

Elain. The oily principle of solid fats procured by dissolving tallow inalcohol, crystallizing the stearin, and evaporating the alcohol.(Chevreuil.)

Elaiodic Acid is formed when castor oil is converted into soap alongwith the ricinic and margaric acids.

ElaiODONj a name given by Herberger to the Igreusine of Boullay.

Elastic Gum. Caoutchouc, or Indian rubber, is the exudation of se-veral American trees, particularly Jatropka elastica.

Elaterii Pepones. L. E. D. Fruit of the Wild Cucumber, Monior-dica elaterium. A native of the south of Europe. It is acrid, andwithout smell. It contains elatinc.Medicinally it is drastico-cathartic, and hydragogue, in doses of gr. ssto gr. iij, in form of pill in anasarca, ascites, and hydro-thorax, butis apt to bring on hypercatharsis.Poisonous in large doses, producing violent vomiting and hyperca-tharsis, with watery stools, sinking, syncope, cold sweats, and death.The best remedies are cordials, and mucilaginous opiates, such usenemas of starch and opium.Eiders into Ext. Elaterii. L. E. D.

Elaterinb. New. A principle discovered in the Elaterium by M.Brandes in the proportion of -rVo; soluble in alcohol, but scarcelysoluble in water or a?ther.

Elatine. New. The active principle of elaterium, procured from the

juice which surrounds the seeds of elaterium, 40 wild cucumbers

yielding gr. vj when freed from impurities. The elaterium of the

shops contains X V 0I " elatine. (Dr. Paris.)

Medicinally when given in doses of gr. >. it is violently purgative and

hydragogue.Poisonous like the preceding) ami requiring the same treatment.

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