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utmost care, will often have reason for regret, if he do not 

 in every new instance proceed with caution. The follow- 

 ing pills are likely to do good : 



Barbadoes tar .... Half a drachm to two drachms. 



Powdered squills ... A drachm to four drachms. 



Extract of belladonna . Half a scruple to four scruples. 



Liquorice powder ... A sufficiency. 



Beat into a mass, and make into twenty pills ; give four 

 daily. Or, 



James's powder . . . . One grain to four grains. 

 Dover's powder .... Six grains to a scruple. 

 Balsam of Peru .... A sufficiency. 



Make into one pill and give as before. Or, 



Extract of hyoscyamus . One to four grains. 

 Powdered ammoniacum, 



Four to twelve grains, 

 and cubebs, of each . ) 



Venice turpentine . . A sufficiency. 



Powdered capsicums and cantharides have also seemed 

 to touch the disease ; but no one medicine has to me 

 appeared to have any specific influence over it. In these 

 cases mere formula could be extended almost indefinitely ; 

 but the reason must be exerted, and the prescription must 

 be dictated by the symptoms. Thus, when there is much 

 nervous excitability accompanied with gastric derange- 

 ment, Prussic acid of Scheele's strength, in doses of half a 

 drop to two drops, may be exhibited ; and if the mouth 

 be dry, and the disposition irritable, from five to twenty 



