1. Peruvian bark 1 oz., ginger 2 dr., opium 1 dr., fresh beer q. s. - White.

2. Opium 1 dr., carbonate of ammonia 1 dr., aromatic powder 2 drs., camphor 1 1/2 drs., good ale or porter, a pint.

3. Chloride of lime or soda 2 to 3 drs., serpentary in powder 1 oz., fresh beer, or sweet wort 1 quart. - White.

Drench For Poisoning By Yew

Stronger purgative drink (No. 1) 4 oz., vinegar 4 oz., thick gruel 4 oz.; repeat it every 6 hours, without the croton, till purging is produced. - Clater.

Drench For Preventing Hydrophobia

1. Box leaves 8 oz., rue 8 oz.; cut them very fine and boil in 3 pints of milk, in a close vessel, for an hour, and strain; boil the ingredients another hour in 3 pints of water, and strain; mix the decoction; give a third part every morning fasting. - Blaine.

2. Excise and cauterize the bitten part at once. Chloral hydrate, belladonna and ammonia, the latter, subcutane-ously. - FlNLAY DUN.

Curara, the potent arrow-poison of the South American Indians, has been proposed as a remedy for rabies.

Drenches To Promote Parturition

1. Ergot of rye in fine powder 2 or 3 drs., pennyroyal water, or infusion of rue, 1 quart.

2. Saffron 6 drs., chamomile 2 oz., boiling water a quart; make an infusion, to be given warm. 1 oz. of dried savin, with 1 oz. of cassia, may be substituted for the saffron. - Moiroud.

Anodyne Drenches

1. Opium 1 dr. dissolved in warm water, 1/2 pint; add 1 quart of starch gruel.

2. Oil of peppermint 50 drops, dissolved in a pint of warm water, with 2 oz. of gum Arabic; add tincture of opium 1/2 oz.

3. Mix tincture of opium 1/2 oz., with sweet spirits of nitre 1 1/2 oz., essence of peppermint 1 dr., and water 1 pint.

Iodine Drench

Iodide of potassium 2 scruples, iodine 12 grs.; triturate together, and add gradually a quart of water. - Moiroud.