Bailey's Itch Ointment. Olive oil 1 lb., suet 1 lb., alkanet root 2 oz. Melt, and macerate until coloured; then strain, and add 3 oz. each of alum, nitre, and sulphate of zinc, in very fine powder; adding vermilion to colour it, and oil of aniseed, lavender, and thyme, to perfume.

Baking Powder. Tartaric acid 8 oz., bicarbonate of soda 9 oz. arrow-root, or rice flour, 10 oz. Mix. Delfort's is said to consist of alum 5 oz.,* bicarbonate of soda 2 3/4 oz., bicarbonate of ammonia 1/2 oz., arrow-root 4 oz.

Balm of Gilead (factitious). 4 oz. of gum benzoin may be dissolved by heat in 1 lb. of Canada balsam, and to the mixture, when cold, 1/4 oz. each of the oils of rosemary, lemon, and cassia, added.

Balm of Rakasiri. Oil of rosemary dissolved in common gin.

Balsam. See Ford's, Hill's, Feyae's, etc.

Barclay's (Rev. D.) Antibilious Pills. Extract of colocynth 2 drs., soap of jalap 2 1/2 drs., extract of guaiacum wood 3 drs., emetic tartar 8 grs., oil of juniper, caraway, and rosemary, each 4 drops; into 4-grain pills.

Baregian Balls. Extract of soap-wort (or of artichoke leaves) 3 oz., gelatine 1 1/2 oz., water 3 oz.; heat together till dissolved, pour the solution into a warm iron mortar; add 6 oz. of sulphuret of lime, and 1 oz. of salt, previously powdered and mixed. Stir constantly till a mass is obtained, and divide it into balls of 2 1/4 oz. each. Use one for a general bath, half of one for a foot bath.

Bark, Essential Salt of. See Extractum Cinchona Sic-cum, P. F.

Barker's Tooth Tincture. An alcoholic solution of pyrethrum, coloured with tincture of red cabbage.

Bateman's Pectoral Drops. 1. Compound spirit of

* The employment of alum in bread-making ought to be discountenanced.

aniseed 16 fluid ounces, opium 1 dr., camphor 1 dr., oil of fennel 20 drops, cochineal 2 drs.

2. Proof spirit 4 galls., red sanders 2 oz.; digest 24 hours, filter, and add powdered opium 2 oz., camphor 2 oz., catechu 2 oz., oil of aniseed 4 fluid drachms; digest for

10 days. Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. The old wine gallon is here intended. Bateman's Itch Ointment. Carbonate of potash 1/2 oz., rose-water 1 oz., vermilion 1 dr., sulphur 11 oz., oil of bergamot 1/2 dr., lard 11 oz.; mix. Bate's Anodyne Balsam. Soap liniment 2 parts, tincture of opium 1 part. Bate's Camphorated Eye-water. Sulphate of copper

15 grs., French bole 15 grs., camphor 4 grs., boiling water

4 oz.; infuse, strain, and dilute with 4 pints of cold water. Bate's Styptic Wash. See Liquor Aluminis Co., P. F. Bathing Spirits. These resemble liquid opodeldoc (soap liniment), and are usually coloured by the addition of some dark tincture. See Feeeman's Bathing Spirits." Bath Digestive Pills. Rhubarb 2 oz., ipecacuanha 1/2 oz., cayenne pepper 1/4 oz soap 1/2 os., ginger 1/4 oz., gamboge

1/4 oz.; mix, and divide into 4-grain pills. Bath Lozenges (in imitation of Dawson's). Pure extract of liquorice 1 oz., powdered gum arabic 1 oz., white sugar

1 lb., hot water q. s. to form a mass; to be rolled into pipes. Battley's Liquor CinchonAe and Liquor Opii. See

Pocket Formulary. Battley's Senna Powder. Senna leaves heated until they become light in colour, reduced to powder, and mixed with some finely powdered charcoal. Baume de Vie. Socotrine aloes 2 drs., rhubarb 6 drs., saffron 2 drs., liquorice root 1 oz., proof spirit 8 oz.; digest for 8 days, and filter. The original Swedish form is this: aloes 9 drs., rhubarb, gentian, zedoary, saffron, theriaca, agaric, of each a drachm, proof spirit 2 pints. Baynton's Plaster. Simple litharge plaster 16 oz., yellow resin 6 drs.; melt together, and spread on linen or calico. Beddoe's Pills; for Gravel, etc. Carbonate of soda, dried without heat, 1 dr., soap 4 scruples, oil of juniper 10 drops, syrup of ginger q. s. for 30 pills.

Beetle Wafers. Red lead, sugar, and flour; made into wafers.

Belloste's Pills. Quicksilver, scammony, and jalap, of each 1 lb., sugar 4 oz.; mixed and made up into a mass with sherry wine.

Bestucheff's Nervous Tincture. A mixture of a strong solution of perchloride of iron with sulphuric ether and spirit, exposed in long bottles to the rays of the sun until it has quite lost its brown colour.

Betton's British Oil. Oil of turpentine 8 oz., Barbadoes tar 4 oz., oil of rosemary 4 drs.; mix. See British Oils.

Bewley & Evans' Chalybeate Water. Citrate of iron 13 grains, carbonated water 6 oz., syrup of orange peel 1 oz.

Biscuits, Aperient. An ounce of powdered jalap, mixed with 16 oz. of the materials for gingerbread, or other kind of cake. See Gingerbread, Purgative.

Black Drop. See GuttAe Nig., Pocket Formulary.

Black Draught. 1. Infusion of senna 10 drs., sulphate of magnesia 3 drs., syrup of ginger 1 dr., aromatic spirit of ammonia 20 drops.

2. Tartrate of potash 1 1/2 dr., manna 1/2 dr., tincture of jalap 1/2 dr., aromatic spirit of ammonia 20 drops, extract of liquorice 4 grs., infusion of senna 11 drs. See Mistura SennAe Comp., Haustus Aperiens, and Mistura Aperiens, in Pocket Formulary, for other formulAe.

Blaine's Distemper Powders. The basis of these is said to be aurum musivum (sulphuret of tin)

Blistering Paper. Melt cantharadin 1 dr., white wax 1 dr., olive oil 5 drs. Paint it with a brush on white bibulous paper, and hang it up to dry in a current of air. Take a piece of pink paper of form and size required, paint the under coloured side with a weak solution of india rubber, cut the cantharadine paper to the size, less a margin, of the pink paper, and place it on while the india-rubber solution is still sticky. Before applying, the blister must be held over the steam of hot water. See Papier Epispastique.

Blistering Tissue. Taffetas Vesicant. Powdered cantha-rides exhausted by ether, the tincture distilled to recover the principal part of the ether for the same use, and the residue heated in a water-bath till it ceases to boil. The green butyraceous oil which remains is to be melted with twice its weight of wax, and spread on waxed silk, or any convenient and adhesive material. An extract prepared by evaporating a tincture made with 4 parts of flies, 1 of strong acetic acid, and 16 of rectified spirit, is used for the same purpose.