258 THE FARMER'S AND 



PURGATIVE POWDER, FORMERLY CALLED PICRA. 



Take of socotrine aloes, one pound ; white canella, thre-a 

 ounces. Powder them separately, and then mix them. 

 The spicy canella acts as a corrigent to the aloes ; but 

 the compound is more adapted to be formed into pills than 

 to be used in the state of powder. It is a convenient me- 

 dicine for costive habits, not subject to the piles. Dose, 

 from ten grains to a scruple at bed-time. 



NAPOLEON'S PECTORAL PILLS. 



The following recipe was copied from one in the pos- 

 session of the late Emperor of France, and was a very fa- 

 vorite remedy with Napoleon for difficulty of breathing, 

 or oppression of the chest, arising from a collection of 

 mucus in the air cells and vessels of the lungs, and in the 

 gullet. Considerable benefit has been derived from them 

 in many similar cases. Take of ipecacuanha root, in 

 powder, thirty grains ; squill root, in powder, gum ammo- 

 niac, do. each two scruples ; mucilage of gum arabic, suf- 

 ficient to form a mass. To be divided into twenty-four 

 pills two to be taken every night and morning. 



Mix together four drachms of syrup of squills, four 

 drachms of elixir of paregoric, four drachms of syrup of 

 poppies. Of this, take a tea-spoonful in a little tea or 

 warm water, as occasion requires. 



Take four drachms of paregoric elixir, two drachms of 

 sulphuric ether, two drachms of tincture of tolu. Mix, 

 and take a tea-spoonful night and morning, or when the 

 cough is troublesome, in a little milk-warm water. 



