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night's sleep without a preparatory draught of this kind taken warm 

 at bed-time. In such cases a teaspoonful of the Tincture of Hops 

 will go as far, in its composing effect, as two or three ounces of 

 ardent spirits. A pillow stuffed with Hop -flowers is said to have 

 laid our late Monarch to sleep, when other remedies had failed.* 

 Dr. Ives found that diseases which are the consequence of exhausted 

 excitability, or more directly of a deranged state of the stomach and 

 bowels, to be much relieved by this medicine, lupulin.f It fre- 

 quently induces sleep and quiets nervous irritation, without causing 

 costiveness, or affecting, like opium, the tone of the stomach. 



In decoction, the Hop is occasionally used with success as a 

 drink to destroy worms, J or as a lavement for children against 

 ascarides. In the same form, it has been advantageously used for 

 painful tumefactions, gouty or rheumatic pains and contusions ; 

 and the powder, well mixed with lard, was recommended by the late 

 Mr. Freake § as an application to cancerous ulcerations. A poultice, 

 made with an infusion of the dried Hop, has likewise been efficiently 

 applied to ill-conditioned and sloughing ulcers. 



INFUSION OF HOP. || 



Take of Hops six drachma ; 



Boiling distilled water, one pint. 

 Macerate for four hours in a loosely-covered vessel, and strain. Dose, 

 from one to two ounces. 



TINCTURE OF HOP. ^[ 



Take of Hops six ounces ; 



Proof spirit two pints. 



Macerate for fourteen days, and strain. Dose, from half a drachm to 

 two or three drachms. 



* Hooper's Med. Diet. 6th ed. p. 675. 



f Most commonly used in the form of a tincture, prepared by digesting 

 two ounces of lupulin in a pint of alcohol. Dose, from one to two 

 drachms. 



X Darelii. Socken. Apot. p. 58. 



§ Med. Phys. Journ. 



|| Infusum Lupuli, Pharm. Lond. 



% Tinctura Lupuli, Pharm. Lond. 



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