Laxative. 1. Aloes 1 oz., water 2 or 3 quarts. - Youatt.

2. Water gruel 1 gallon, olive oil 1 pint. - White.

3. Epsom salts 6 oz. (or common salt 6 oz., or soap 2 oz.), thin gruel or broth 5 quarts. - Blaine.

4. Soft soap 2 oz., warm water 3/4 of a pailful. - B. Claer.

5. Infuse 3 oz. senna in 2 quarts of water, and add Epsom salts 4 oz., honey 6 oz. - Moiroud.

6. Chamomiles, fennel seed, coriander seed, of each 1 oz., caraways 1/2 oz.; boil in 2 quarts of water to 3 pints; strain, add 2 oz. Epsom salts, and when nearly cool, 1/4 pint of olive oil and 1/4 pint of tincture of senna. - Taplin.

Purgative. 1. Aloes 8 to 12 drs., salt 8 oz., water 1 gallon: in staggers. - White.

2. Senna 2 oz., tobacco 2 oz.; boil for a quarter of an hour in 2 quarts of water, strain, and add common salt 4 oz., emetic tartar 1 dr.; for 2 doses. Very irritating. -

Lebas. Emollient. Dried mallow leaves, or marshmallow root, 1 1/2 oz., linseed 1/2 oz., water 2 quarts; boil and strain; to be used warm. - Moiroud.

Emollient and Anodyne. 1. Mix 6 drs. of starch in powder with a little cold water, and add it to a decoction of 6 poppy-heads in 2 quarts of water; boil for an instant and strain: in intestinal irritation. - Moiroud.

2. Gruel 2 pints, liquid starch or arrowroot 1 pint, powdered opium 1 dr. to 1 1/2 dr. - White.

3. Boil 6 poppy-heads in 4 quarts of water till reduced to 2 quarts; add prepared chalk 2 oz., boiled starch 2 quarts; once or twice a day in diarroeha. - Blaine.

4. A double handful of coarse bran, 6 poppy heads, 2 quarts of water; boil and strain. - Moiroud.

5. Tripe liquor (or suet boiled in milk) 3 pints, thin starch a quail, laudanum 1/2 oz.; in diarrhoea.

Cooling. Butter-milk or whey, barley-water, of each a quart. - Moiroud. Carminative and Stimulant. 1. Chamomiles 3 oz., aniseed or fennel seed 1 1/2 oz., 4 poppy heads; boil the poppies in sufficient water, and infuse the flowers and seeds in the hot decoction. - Vatel.

2. To expel wind. Boil 1 ft of figs in 3 quarts of water for half an hour, then add 2 handfuls of chopped rue; boil a few minutes, strain, and add 8 oz. of olive oil. -