246 USE OF GLANDERINE AND FARCINE. 
And each medicament, for we will no longer call them 
poisons, should be prepared separately. Let us now follow 
the nose-glanderine as a model for the rest through the vari- 
ous stages of its preparation. 
Put on a pair of kid gloves. 
Weigh ten grains of the glanderine in glass scales: weigh 
in the same, ninety grains of thick gum mucilage. Rub the 
two together for twenty minutes, or until the amalgamation 
is complete. Then for the second time weigh ten grains of 
the new mixture ; and throw away the rest. Let the mortar 
be carefully rinsed wdth large quantities of water at a sink 
where there is a ready outflow ; and take heed to your eyes, 
or to any sore or cut surfaces, while you are engaged with 
the first dilutions of the glanderine. Rinse lastly with boil- 
ing water, and cool the mortar again at the tap. Observing 
this caution, now 7 rub the second ten grains with another 
ninety grains of thick mucilage ; and of this mixture pre- 
serve one fluid drachm, throwing away the rest; and rinsing 
the mortar again with the same care. Now take your mea- 
sured drachm of the second dilution of glanderine, and in a 
two-ounce bottle, pour upon it nine drachms of distilled 
water. Cork the bottle, and put on the cork the figure 3, 
signifying the third dilution. Shake the bottle until its 
contents are thoroughly mixed. Into another two-ounce 
bottle now put one measured drachm of No. 3, and nine 
drachms of distilled w 7 ater. Mark this No. 4, and shake it 
into admixture as before. Throw aw r ay the remaining nine 
drachms of No. 3. Then prepare No. 5 , by a similar pro- 
cess to No. 4, and throw aw 7 ay the residue of No. 4. Per- 
form all these operations neatly and gently, and mind your 
eyes in the mean time. 
Now this is what you are to do w 7 ith No. 5. Take an 
ounce of it by weight , and nine ounces of the best pow 7 dered 
gum arabic; mix them together in a mortar until the fluid 
is taken up, and the mass thoroughly amalgamated. That 
mass is your stock of harmless glanderine of the sixth dilu- 
tion. By carrying the process with the distilled water on- 
w 7 ards, you can of course make w 7 hat further dilutions you 
please ; but I have alw r ays made use of the sixth in my prac- 
tice. SomOi of my brethren will probably enrich experience 
by the employment of the 200th. 
Well, you have got your mass ; and now 7 all you have to 
do, is, to make it into small pills. I make up two grains 
into a pill. The whole mass should be pillulated at once ; 
and the pilules received into a flat box with plenty of sugar 
of milk at the bottom, and freely moved about many times 
