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ever had occasion to go furtlier than No. 3. 

 Should any one, however,* be desirous of a 

 stronger medicine, it may readily be procured 

 by adding one or two drams of aloes, or one 

 dram of calomel to the ball No. 3 : but I must 

 not omit to observe, that there appears to me 

 to be a considerable danger in making the 

 addition. 



Since the former edition of this book was 

 published, I have found great difficulty in 

 procuring genuine succotrine aloes, and have 

 often been xlisappoiiited by it; I have been. 

 induced therefore to use tne Barbadocs, and 

 can now recommend it with confidence, in 

 preference to every other kind. The Barba- 

 docs cdoe is of a dark brown colour, approachin"- 

 to blackness, of a strong disagreeable jimell, nut 

 very brittle, and opaque. 



Diuretics, 



These are medicines, which, by stimulatino' 

 the kidneys, increase the secretion of urine. 

 The following formulcc I have found both con- 

 venient and efficacious. 



