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is a pectoral for coughs! Ifa patient, with a pulmonary affection, should 
recover during the use of such a remedy, I should certainly designate it as 
alucky escape, rather than a skilful cure. 
Whitehead’s Essence of Mustard.—Oil of turpentine, camphor, and spirit 
of rosemary, with a little flour of mustard to colour it. > 
Freeman’s Bathing Spirits—Opodeldoc, coloured with Daffy’s elixir ! 
Godbold’s Vegetable Balsam.—Honey and vinegar ! 
Gowland’s Lotion.—A solution of corrosive sublimate, in emulsion of bitter 
almonds. 
James's Analeptic Pills —James’s powder, gum ammoniacum, pill of aloes, 
With myrrh, of each equal parts, made into a mass with tincture of castor. 
Norris’s Drops.—A coloured solution of tartarized antimony in rectified 
spirit. 
Remedies for the Hooping-cough.—Fither opiates or medicines containing 
sulphate of zinc. , : 
Roche’s Embrocation for the Hooping-cough.—Olive oil, mixed with half its 
quantity of the oils of cloves and amber. 
Ruspini’s Tincture for the Teeth.—Florentine iris root, 8 ounces; cloves, 
1 ounce ; rectified spirit, 2 pints ; ambergris, 1 scruple. 
Scouring Drops.—Oil of turpentine, perfumed with essential oil of lemon- 
eel. 
q Solomon’s Balm of Gilead.—An aromatic tincture, of which’ cardamoms 
form the leading ingredient, made with brandy. Some practitioners have 
asserted that cantharides enter its composition. 
Steer’s Opodeldoc.—Castile’ soap, 1 ounce; rectified spirit, 8 ounces ; 
camphor, 3 ounces and a half; oil of rosemary, half a drachm ; oil of origa- 
num, 1 drachm ; solution of ammonia, 6 drachms. 
Taylor’s Remedy for Deafness Garlic, infused in oil of almonds, and co- 
loured by alcanet root. 
Here we must take leave of Dr. Paris, with many thanks for 
the amusement and information afforded us by his book; its 
materials have evidently been collected with much pains and 
diligence, and they are put together with skill, and generally 
with candour. Though at variance with him upon a few points, 
we sincerely wish him the success he merits in the pursuit of 
his truly liberal and honourable profession ; a profession which, 
in this country, is characterized, not merely by the learning and 
knowledge of its leading members, but by their unaffected phi- 
lanthropy, unostentatious charity, and upright zeal_—F Lorzar. 
Il. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal. Society of 
London, for the year MDCCCXXII. Parr II. 
WE resume the account of the contents of this volume, from 
page 172 of our last Number. The present part of the Philo- 
sophical Transactions is eminent for the number and excellent 
execution of its copper-plate prints, which are twenty in'‘number, 
and though not upon subjects particularly novel or important, 
are not the less creditable to the draughtsman and the engraver. 
We propose, as usual, to give a condensed abstract of each of 
the papers, extending it in proportion to their originality and 
interest, 
