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The intention of Cure plainly confifls in 

 the fpeedy exhibition of volatile and carmina- 

 tive, of diuretic, and laxative medicines, v/hich 

 ought to be given both in the form of glyf- 

 ter, and by the mouth. Ball. Strafburg, or 

 Venice turpentine, juniper berries, and carra- 

 way feeds pounded, each half an ounce ; fine 

 aloes well powdered, two drachms ; ial prunel, 

 one ounce ; chymical oil of juniper, one drachm, 

 fait of tartar, two drachms ; ball with honey 

 and hard foap. Wafh down with a pint or 

 two warm gruel. Or, The following drink : 

 Cailile ioap and nitre, one ounce each ; juniper 

 berries, and carraway feeds, half an ounce 

 each ; ginger powdered, two drachms ; Venice 

 turpentine, difTolved with the yolk of an egg, 

 fix drachms ; tin6lure of fenna, an ounce or 

 two. Mix with warm ale and treacle. Re- 

 peat. Clyster as before with the addition 

 of carminatives : camomile flowers, two hand- 

 fuls; anife, coriander, and fennel feeds, one 

 ounce each ; long pepper half an ounce. The 

 following lierbs are prefcribed, but as in gene- 

 ral there may be a difficulty in obtaining them, 

 I have fubdituted water-gruel, which, in truth, 

 I have always found an excellent fubftitute : 

 Mallows, pellitory, elder-flowers, the herb mer- 

 cury, mullein, bear's-breech, &c. 



St. Bell remarks on the difficulty of hitting 

 the critical moment, proper for the exhibition 

 of opium in long continued pains; and of re- 

 gulating 



