rheumatism or rheumatic affections in elderly subjects, and in general it has proved very beneficial, not only in removing pain, but in improving the general health.(See RHEUMATISM.)

ANTISCROFULOUS MIXTURE.

(A)

Muriate of Lime,

Take of Essential Salt of Bark, No. 24, 2 drachms. 8 drachms. Or Prepared Natron, 2 drachms. Dissolve in a pint of Distilled Water; then add

Compound Tincture of Rhatany
Root, No. 6.

1 ounce.

Or, (B) Take of Decoction of Bark, 7 ounces. Prepared Natron, 2 drachms. Tincture of Cardamom Seeds, 6 drachins.

Mix. taken three times a day.

Three table-spoonsful to be

This last mixture is a favourite remedy for correcting the scrofulous habit with Dr. Symonds of Hereford. It was also the remedy generally prescribed by Dr. Blount of Hereford. The late Dr. Fothergill, and the late Dr. Lettsom, often prescribed it with the Blue Pill; and its continued use I have found morel beneficial in correcting the scrofulous habit, with the occasional use of the Blue Pill, and attention to the bowels, so as to obviate costiveness, than any other remedy. The following is preferred by Mr. Abernethy.

Liquid Laudanum, 30 drops.
Camphorated Mixture,

6 ounces. Mix.-Two table-spoonsful to be taken every three or four hours, for cramp in the stomach, and spasmodic colic.

This is a very efficacious remedy for spasms of the stomach; but in cases of colic it should not be administered till three or four evacuations have been procured from the bowels, by means of the Cathartic Mixture, Castor Oil, and the Aperient Lavement if necessary. ANTISPASMODICS, p. 12, and COLIC.)

ANTITUSSIC MIXTURE.

(A)

Take of Ipecacuan Wine,

(See

2 drachms.

Or, Ipecacuan Powder, No. 23, 10 grains.

Gum Arabic Powder, No. 52,

Almond Emulsion, 6 ounces. Mix.-Two table-spoonsful to be taken every two hours, for recent cough, pleurisy, and inflammation of the lungs. In case of fever or a dry skin, the Tartarised Antimony Wine should be preferred to Ipe

cacuan.

In cases of chronic cough or winter cough of elderly people, attended with mixture generally proves very beneficial expectoration, without fever, the following in promoting expectoration, and in facilitating breathing.

Or, (B) Take of Paregoric Elixir, 6 drachms. Tincture of Squills, 3 drachms. Spirit of Hartshorn, 3 drachms. Emulsion of Gum Ammoniac, 7 ounces. If this medicine produce nausea, the Tincture of Squills should be omitted. This last mixture was a favourite remedy with the late Dr. Baillie and the late Dr. Warren, for chronic and asthmatic cough.

APERIENT MIXTURE.

(A) Take of Epsom Salts,

6 drachms.

7 ounces.

Infusion of Roses, Compound Tincture of Senna, 6 drachms.

Spearmint Water,

5 ounces.

Mix. Three table spoonsful to be taken every two hours till it produces perspiration.

This is a valuable Sudorific Mixture in cases of inflammatory fever, inflammation of the lungs, pleura, liver, and acute rheumatism. Some practitioners prefer Antimonial to the Ipecacuan Wine; but if the alkali of the Minder. erus's Spirit predominate, which it frequently does, the Emetic Tartar of the Wine will be decomposed and rendered inert. If Antimonial Wine be ordered, a few grains of the Tartaric Acid should be added to prevent decomposition of the Emetic Tartar.

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Mix. Three table-spoonsful to be taken three times a day.

This is an excellent tonic medicine in cases of general debility.

Or, (B)

Take of Extract of Rhatany, 1 drachms. Spirit of Sal Volatile, 3 drachms. Alkaline Liquor of Iron,

This is a powerful strengthening medibody, attended with edematous swelling cine, in cases of general debility of the of the legs, or occurring in a leucophlegmatic habit.

Take of the Balsam of the Sassafras Tree,
Or, (C)
3 drachms.
Mucilage of Gum Arabic,

] ounce.

Extract of Rhatany, 14 drachms.
Infusion of Buchu Leaves,

7 ounces. Mix the Balsam with the Mucilage of Gum Arabic well together in a glass mortar, and then add by degrees the Extract dissolved in the Infusion; three table-spoonsful of this Mixture to be taken three times a day.

This is a very excellent remedy for fluor albus and gleet in languid or weakly habits. If the system be leucophlegmatic, three drachms of Alkaline Liquor of Iron may be added.