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employed in emulsions, either alone or with almonds, for assuag- 

 ing the pain and irritation of the urinary organs in nephritic 

 complaints, in strangury and in calculous affections. The dried 

 capsules or seed-vessels are used for preparing a syrup, but more 

 extensively, either alone or with chamomile flowers, as an 

 anodyne fomentation. 



LAUDANUM*. 



Take of hard Opium, powdered three ounces. 



Proof spirit two pints. 



Macerate for fourteen days and strain.— Preferable to opium in substance 

 for sudden and extreme pain, &c. Dose, from ten to forty drops ; nineteen 

 drops containing one grain of opium. 



PAREGORIC ELIXIR"|\ 



Take of hard Opium, powdered seventy-two grains. 



Camphor two scruples and a half. 



Benzoic acid seventy -two grains. 



Oil of aniseed one drachm. 



Proof spirit two pints. 



Macerate for fourteen days and strain. — Suited to tickling coughs, hoop- 

 ing cough, chronic asthma, &c. Dose, from one drachm to one ounce ; an 

 ounce containing nearly two grains of opium. 



POPPY FOMENTATION J. 



Take of Poppy heads, sliced four ounces. 



Water four pints. 



Boil for a quarter of an hour and strain. Two ounces of chamomile 

 flowers may be advantageously added to the above. Useful in all cases of 

 painful swellings, and simple excoriations. 



SYRUP OF POPPY §. 



Take of Poppy heads, sliced three pounds. 



Sugar five pounds. 



Boiling water five gallons. 



Boil down the Poppy heads in the water to two gallons, and press out 

 the liquor. Boil down the liquor again to four pints, and strain it while 

 hot ; set it by for twelve hours that the dregs may subside ; pour off the 

 clear liquor, and boil it down to two pints ; then add the sugar and dissolve 

 it. — Chiefly used as an anodyne for children. Dose, for an adult, from two 

 drachms to an ounce. 



* Tinctura Opii. Pharm. Lond. 



f Tinctura Camphorse composita. Pharm. Lond. 



% Decoctum Papaveris. Pharm. Lond. 



§ Syrupus Papaveris. Pharm. Lond. 



