BOTANIC PHYSICIAN. 
sid landanum, halfan ounce. Mix these ingredients with the yolk 
of an egg, and work them well together. 
Simple Cerate.—Take of olive oil, six parts; white wax,. three 
parts ; spermaceti, one part. Melt the wax and spermaceti toge- 
r ogee add the oil, stirring until the whole is cool. 
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edicines which operate i ina small dose, and ‘ite able 
et or smell makes it necessary that they should be cor from 
the palate, are more commodiously exhibited in this form. No me- 
dicine, however, which is intended to operate quickly, ought to be 
_ made into pills, as they often lie for a considerable time on the sto- 
_ mach before they are dissolved so as to produce any effect. One 
a generally calculated to weigh about five grains. 
zs ufus’s Pills.—Take of socotorine aloes, two ounces ; myrrh 
. ‘one-ounce; saffron, half an ounce. Beat them —— into a mass 
' rese ve lo nued in practice, as a stimulating ape- 
bien. Given to the quRTnny of half a drachm, or two scruples, they 
prove considerably cathartic, but they answer ‘much better purposes 
im smaller doses as laxatives or alteratives. Two or three for a dose. 
_ Deobstruent Pill.—Take rust of iron, socotorine aloes, and myrrh, 
der, of each a drachm. Make into forty pills, of which two 
are to be taken morning and evening. 
_ These pills are of excellent service in obstructions of the menses. 
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- Pills of Opium.—Take of opium, one part ; extract of liquorice, 
en parts ; Jamaica pepper, two parts. Soften the opium and ex- 
tract separately, with diluted alcohol, and‘having beat them into a pulp, 
‘mix them: then add the pepper, reduced to a powder, and form the 
wring amass. . 
_ This affords a form under which the exhibition of opium may be 
om the patient. Each pill contains about half a — 
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“i opium. 
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_ Another. rg eight parts; canadien arts ; 
‘ |, four parts. ees articles a rts 
mix, and beat them into a mass. ~~ ee — powdered, 
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- Stomachic Pill—Take extract of géntian two | araohinks: : _powder- 
_edrhubarb, and vitriolated tartar, each one drachm ; oil of mint, chang 
_ drops; simple syrup, a sufficient quantity. 
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