DRENCHES, for Coughs, Epidemics, Catarrh, etc. (For linseed tea, compound infusion of linseed, barley water, etc, see Drenches, further back.)

1. Simple Emulsion. Olive oil 2 oz., honey 3 oz., soft water 1 pint, subcarbonate of potash 2 drs.; mix. - White.

2. Linseed tea 1 pint, honey 2 oz., syrup of poppies 2 oz., linseed oil 4 oz.

3. B. Clark's Cough Drench. Linseed oil 2 oz., solution of potash 40 drops, treacle 1 oz., soft water 10 oz.; mix.

4. Powdered gum 2 oz., warm water a quart; dissolve, and add honey 4 oz. - Moiroud.

5. Marshmallow root 2 oz., water 2 1/2 or 3 pints; boil to a quart, and add 4 oz. of treacle. - MOIREOUD.

6. Liquorice and Marshmallow roots, of each 2 oz., water a quart; boil, strain, and add honey 4 oz. - Lebas.

7. Marshmallow root 2 oz., 4 poppy heads, water a quart; boil for ten minutes, strain, and add to the liquor before quite cold, 4 oz. of olive oil, 6 oz. of honey and the yolks of 4 eggs, previously well beaten together. - MOIREUD.

8. Compound decoction of linseed (see liquid medicines for horses, further back) 1 quart, oxymel 3 oz.

9. Spermaceti 1/2 oz., olive oil 3 oz.; melt together, and add, honey 4 oz., water (by a little at a time) to make up a quart; repeat it twice a day. - Lebas.

10. Camphorated Emulsion. Reduce to powder, with a few drops of spirit, 1 or 2 drs. of camphor, add 12 drops of oil of aniseed, and 1 1/2 oz. of simple emulsion. - White.

11. Oxymel of squills 2 oz., opium 1/2 dr. to 1 dr., linseed oil 2 oz.; mix the opium with 8 oz. of water, and add the other ingredients; for one dose. - White.

12. For chronic coughs. Tar-water 1/2 pint, lime-water 1/2 pint, powdered squill 1 dr., every morning. - Blaine.

13. In inflammation of the lungs, or catarrhal fever. Tartarized antimony, 2 drs., digitalis 1 1/2 drs., nitre 3 drs., simple oxymel 4 oz., compound decoction of linseed 8 oz. - Blaine.

14. The same, omitting the digitalis, and substituting 6 oz. of warm water for the dec. linseed. In influenza, when soreness of throat prevents swallowing halls. - Blaine.

15. In inflammation of the lungs: Ipecacuanha, 2 drs., laudanum 4 drs., powdered camphor 2 drs., Mindererus spirit 4 oz., linseed tea 1/2 pint. - Blaine.

16. In pleurisy. Boil pearl barley, split figs, and raisins, each 6 oz., and liquorice root 2 oz., in 4 quarts of water down to 3; strain, and add honey 1 ft, vinegar

1 pint; give 1 oz. nitre in a pint of this decoction every 6 hours. - Taplin.

17. In epidemic (epizootic) catarrh; Spirit of nitrous ether 1 oz., Mindererus spirit 6 oz., with linseed tea. - Blaine.

18. Gibson's Drink for Catarrhal Epidemic. Coltsfoot, hyssop, chamomile, of each a handful, linseed and garlic, each 1 oz., liquorice root sliced 1 oz., saffron 1/2 oz.; infuse in 2 quarts of boiling water; give half in the morning and the rest in the afternoon.

19. In influenza (after bleeding). Oil of croton 5 drops, nitre 4 to 6 drs., tartarised antimony 1 dr., spirit of nitric ether 1/2 oz. to 1 oz., solution of acetate of ammonia (B. P.)

2 to 4 oz., warm water q. s. Once or twice daily. Sometimes 1/2 oz. of cream of tartar is added. - Spooner.

20. For malignant epidemic Oxymel 4 oz., spirit of Mindererus 4 oz., beer yeast 4 oz., sweet spirit of nitre 1 oz.