For swelled legs, grease, etc, for carrying off bad humours. And in many chronic diseases. The too frequent use of diuretics injures the kidneys, and weakens the system. (See Alterative Balls, further back.)

1. Resin, soap, nitre, of each equal parts, beaten together into a mass; dose, 1 oz. to 1 1/2 oz. - V.C.

2. Common turpentine 4 oz., Castile soap 4 oz., caraways 8 oz., ginger 1 oz., flour q. s. - White.

3. Resin 16 oz., white soap 16 oz., nitre 8 oz., dried common soda 2 oz., oil of juniper 4 oz.; beat together, adding flour if required; dose, 1 oz. to 1 1/2 oz.

4. Nitre 1 lb, Castile soap 1/2 common turpentine 1 barley meal 2 1/2or sufficient; dose, about 1 oz. - B. Clarke.

5. White soap 8 oz., nitre 3 oz., resin 3 oz., camphor 3 dr., oil of juniper 3 dr. For 6 balls; 1 every, or every other morning. - Taplin.

6. Common turpentine 16 oz., sulphur 24 oz., nitre 8 oz., honey 8 oz., flour or linseed meal q. s.; dose, 1 1/2 oz.

7. Camphor 2 dr., nitre 1 oz., flour and syrup to form a ball; for stoppage of water. - White.

8. Yellow resin 4 common turpentine 2yellow soap 2. melt together, and add nitre 1 - Blaine.

9. Common turpentine (or powdered resin) 1/2 oz., linseed meal 1/4 oz., ginger 1/2 dr., palm oil q. s. - Youatt.

10. Yellow resin 2 oz., common turpentine 4 oz., soap 3 oz., melt together, stir in 1 oz. sweet oil, add oil of aniseed 1/2 oz., oil of juniper 1/2 oz., ginger 2 dr., linseed meal q. s.; mix, and divide into 8 balls; 1 a day till the water is affected. - Hinds.

11. Resin 2 1/2 cream of tartar 1/2 sulphur 1/2 linseed meal 1 palm oil 1 dose, 1 oz. to 2 oz. - Clater.

12. Nitre 1 oz., vermilion 1/2 oz., resin 1 oz., camphor 1/2 oz., honey q.s. for 4 balls. - Lebas.

13. Powdered yellow resin 4 dr., nitrate of potash 2 dr., p. ginger 1 dr.; beat up with soap. - Spooner.

14. Nitre 8 oz.; oxysulphuret of antimony 1 oz., sulphur 8 oz., resin 8 oz., oil of juniper 1 oz., yellow soap 8 oz., treacle to form a mass; dose, 1 1/2 oz.

15. White soap 1 oz., extract of juniper berries q. s. for 2 balls. - Bourgelat.

Tonic Diuretic Ball. Gentian 1 dr., ginger 1/2 dr., sulphate of iron 2 dr., diuretic mass (No. 11) 1/2 oz., oil of juniper 10 drops, syrup of squills 1/2 oz.; twice a day in dropsy of chest: less frequently in swelled legs. - Clater.

Tonic and Diuretic Ball for Pleurisy. Sulphate of copper 1 1/2 dr., ginger and gentian 2 dr. each, with Venice turpentine. - Spooner. (See also Leicester Red Balls, and Miscellaneous Balls, further on.)

Fever Balls

1. Emetic Tartar 1/2 dr., camphor 1/2 dr., nitre 2 dr., common mass 6 dr., or q. s. for 1 ball; to be given once or twice a day. - Morton.

2. Camphor 1 dr., nitre 6 dr., antimonial powder 2 dr., flour and syrup to form a ball. - White.

3. Antimonial powder 2 dr., nitre 3 dr., cream of tartar 2 dr., honey to form a ball; in influenza twice a day, after a mild laxative. - Blaine.

4. See Balls for Inflammation of Lungs, No, 4. - Clater.