PATENT MEDICINES. 
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Beat them well together into a mass with water, and divide 
into pills, each containing two and a half grains. 
2. Anderson's Scot's Pills. 
These pills are a mild aloetic purgative, with which, accord- 
ing to the judgment or fancy of the preparer, various adjuvants 
are combined. The formula submitted by the committee will, 
it is presumed, be liable to as few objections as any. 
RECIPE. 
Aloes Barbadensis, 
gxxiv. 
787 
Saponis, 
131 
Colocynthidis, 
lj- 
33 
Gambogiae, 
3j. 
33 
Olei Anisi, 
f.gss. 
16 
1000 parts. 
Let the aloes, colocynth and gamboge be reduced to a very 
fine powder, then beat them and the soap with water, into a 
mass, of a proper consistence to divide into pills, each con- 
taining three grains. 
3. Bateman's Pectoral Drops. 
More important errors have crept into this recipe than into 
any other. The quantity of Opium in one formula is lh grs. 
and in another 106 grs. to the pint. The Camphor varies still 
more. Castor is introduced into many of the recipes in place 
of Catechu, which appears to have been an original ingredient, 
and which it in no way resembles. The intention seems to 
have been to form a narcotic and astringent, possessed of 
diaphoretic and diuretic qualities. Such an intention will at 
least best answer the purposes for which the medicine is now 
used, and for which it is chiefly recommended in the printed 
directions. The formula submitted by the committee, con- 
tains half a drachm each, of opium, camphor and catechu in a 
pint, or about a grain of each in half a fluid ounce of the liquid. 
Ft contains an equal quantity of opium, with the elixir pare- 
