1. Liverpool Preventive Powders. Bicarbonate of soda 1 scrapie, ginger 8 grs.; to be taken in a glass of water after breakfast and supper. These powders are said to have been used with good effect among the workmen in the mining and manufacturing districts, during a former visitation of cholera.

2. Dr. Stevens' Saline Powders. Bicarbonate of soda 1/2 drachm, muriate of soda (chloride of sodium) a scruple, chlorate of potash 7 grs.; mix, for 1 dose.

3. Mr. Hope's remedy. Nitrous acid (red) 2 drs., peppermint-water or camphor mixture 1 oz., tincture of opium 40 minims: dose 1 to 2 teaspoonfuls in a cupful of gruel every 3 or 4 hours.

4. Spirit of wine 1 oz., spirit of lavender 1/4 oz., oil of origanum 1/4 oz., compound tincture of benzoin 1/4 oz., spirit of camphor 1/4 oz.; twenty drops on moist sugar. To be rubbed outwardly also.

5. American remedy. Equal parts of lard, maple-sugar, and charcoal, to be mixed, and the size of a nut swallowed.

6. Remedies recommended by the Board of Health, in premonitory diarrhAea: Chalk mixture 1 oz., aromatic confection 10 to 15 grs., tincture of opium 5 to 15 drops; to be repeated every 3 or 4 hours, or oftener if the attack be severe, until the looseness is stopped.

7. Dr. Graves' Astringent Pills. Acetate of lead 20 grs., opium 1 gr.: in 12 pills. One every half hour till the watery discharges cease.

8. Mr. Buxton's remedy. Twenty-five minims of diluted sulphuric acid in an ounce of water,

9. Dr. Beavens Preventative and Remedy. The Preventative. Sulphite of magnesia 2 drs.; sulphurous acid 2 oz., water 2 oz.; tincture of capsicum 1/2 oz. Mix and dissolve. A teaspoonful night and morning.

The Remedy. Sulphite of magnesia 2 drs.; sulphurous acid 2 oz.; tincture capsicum 1/2 oz., water 2 oz., sulphate of morphia 2 grs.; mix and dissolve. A teaspoonful every half hour until relieved.

We have inserted the above, not to encourage quackery in reference to this terrible disease, but because the druggist may be called upon to supply these remedies, and expected to know their composition. For Elixir Woroneje, see P. F.

Chirayta Pills and Mixture. Dr. Reece's Pills. Extract of chirayta 2 drs., dried soda (carbonate?) 20 grs., ginger 15 grs.; mix, and divide into 36 pills. Two, twice a day. Mixture: Infusion of chirayta 8 oz., subcarbonate of soda 1 dr.; two tablespoonfuls 3 times a day.

Citrate of Magnesia. See Effervescing Citrate of Magnesia.

Cluttton's Febrifuge Spirit and Tincture. Spirit: The orighial formula is - oil of sulphur by the bell, oil of vitriol and sea salt, of each 1 oz.; rectified spirit 3 oz.; mix, digest for a month; and distil to dryness. Tincture: Febrifuge spirit 8 fluid ounces; angelica root, serpentary, cardamom seed, of each 1 1/2 dr.; digest, and strain. Water acidulated with these and sweetened to the taste, forms a cooling diuretic and diaphoretic julep. Though never admitted into the Pharmacopoeias, these preparations are favorites with a few practitioners.

Cochrane's Cough Medicine. An acidulated syrup of poppies.

Collier's (Dr.) Wine of Quinine. Disulphate of quinine 18 grs., citric acid 15 grs., sound orange wine 1 bottle, or 24 fluid ounces.

Collier's (Dr.) Cream of Taraxacum. See Cremor Ta-raxaci, P. F.

Collins's Disinfecting Powder. See Disinfecting and Deodorizing Compounds among the Trade Chemicals.

Collodion. See Trade Chemicals.

Collodion (Styptic), Dr. Richardson. A saturated solution of tannic acid and gun cotton in ether.

Dr. Pavesi. Collodion 100 parts, carbolic acid 10 parts, tannic acid and benzoic acid, of each 5 parts. Applica-tion to wounds. Consumption, Popular Remedies for. 1. Rum 1/2 pint, linseed oil, honey, garlic (beaten to a pulp), and loaf sugar, of each 4 oz., yolks of 5 eggs; mix: a teaspoonful night and morning.

2. Breastplate. Dissolve 1 oz. of aloes in 12 oz. of a strong decoction of fresh rue; fold a large piece of soft niuslin in 8 folds, large enough to cover the chest and part of the stomach; steep in the solution and dry it in the shade; wear it on the chest constantly. Cough Linctus. 1. Rose Linetus. Confection of roses 3 oz., paregoric elixir 1 1/2 oz., diluted sulphuric acid 1 dr.; mix: a teaspoonful now and then when the cough is troublesome.

2. Dr. Latham's Cough Linctus. Dover's Powder 1/2 dr., compound powder of tragacanth 2 drs., syrup of Tolu 1/2 oz., confection of hips and simple oxymel, of each 1 oz.; a teaspoonful 3 or 4 times a day. For other formulae, see Linetus; Linetus Papaveris; Linetus ScillAe, etc.; P. F. Cough Lozenges. See Bath Lozenges, above; also Lozenges, below. Corn Plasters, See Kennedy's Corn Plaster, and Em-plastrum Aeruginis, Pocket Formulary. Most of the advertised corn plasters contain verdigris. A few additional formulae are subjoined.

1. Galbanum Plaster 1 oz., prepared verdigris 1 scruple; melt, and mix.

2. Galbanum 1 oz., black pitch 1/2 oz., simple diachylon 1/2 oz., verdigris a scruple, sal ammoniac a scruple. Melt the first three together, and add the last two in fine powder.

3. Plaster of ammoniacum with quicksilver 1 1/2 oz., soap plaster 1/2 oz., opium in fine powder 1/2 dr.

Mechanical Corn Plasters. Any suitable adhesive plaster is spread on soft thick leather (buckskin), which is afterwards cut to a suitable size, and a hole punched in the centre. They are sometimes spread on amadou, or on vulcanized India rubber.

Corn Solvents. One of the preparations sold under this name is probably a strong solution of carbonate of potash.

A powder sold for the same purpose consists of carbonate of potash coloured with ochre or bole. A pinch is placed on the corn, and confined by means of a piece of adhesive plaster or rag. Sir Humphrey Davy's name has been given to a remedy which consists of carbonate of potash and salt of sorrel, similarly applied. The following is one of the advertised Corn and Bunion remedies: - Carbonate of soda 1 oz., finely powdered and mixed with 1/2 oz. of lard. Applied on linen rag every night: the outer skin to be pared off every 2 or 3 days. It may be varied thus: - Dried soda (carbonate?) 4 drs., powder blue (smalts) a scruple, lard 4 drs.; mix.