a 
ALU—AMM 
varies according to the views of _ 
. The third, or alum- 
3ij of alum with a pint of milk, 
ose of which is a wine-glass-full. — 
made by briskly agitating a — 
hite of an egg, in some con- _ 
oagulum is formed. It is ap- 
i obstinate constipation of thet Is. 
the preparations used. 4 is the Aluwnen 
alum, of the Dublin College, By the action of heat, alum 
an external application ; and owing to its escharotic pro- — 
perty, it is useful in venereal chancres, and other ulcers e 
having feeble and spongy granulations. It is much em. 
ployed to destroy fungous excrescences ; but it should be — 
remembered, that it owes its escharotic power to an excess 
of acid, and if not so prepared as to redden syrup of vio- 
lets, it will prove ineffectual. 
The officinal preparations are—Liquor Alum: co. L. Puly: 
Alum: co. E. ; 
No. 42.—Am oue-L. E. D. & U.S. Ammo- 
ae niac—the product of Heracleum Gummife- 
rum, which see. e: 
No. 43,—AMMONIE Murias. L. Murias Ammonia. 
: E. Sal Ammoniacum. D. Sal Ammoniac. 
Cabinet specimen, Jeff. Coll. No. 51. 
This salt isa compound of No. 17 and ammonia; is found 
aS apr of volcanoes, The eruption of Etna, in 1811, 
afforded as much as supplied all the manufactories and 
apothecaries’ shops in Sicily. ‘That employed in medicine 
