5253. Napoleon's Pectoral Pills

5253.     Napoleon's Pectoral Pills. Ipecacuanha, 30 grains; powdered squills and ammoniac, of each 40 grains; mucilage to mix; divide into 24 pills. It is said that the above was a favorite remedy with the first Emperor of France for difficulty of breathing, bronchitis, and various affections of the organs of respiration. Dose, 2 pills night and morning.

5254. Gedding's Piles Ointment

5254. Gedding's Piles Ointment. Carbonate of lead, 4 drachms; sulphate of morphia, 15 grains; stramonium ointment, 1 ounce; olive oil, sufficient to make into an ointment.

5255. Ditchett's Remedy for Piles

5255. Ditchett's Remedy for Piles. Spermaceti ointment, 8 ounces; powdered galls, 1 ounce; powdered opium, 1 drachm; solution of diacetate of lead, l1/2 ounces. Mix well.

5256. Brown's Bronchial Troches

5256. Brown's Bronchial Troches. Take 1 pound pulverized extract of liquorice, l1/2 pounds pulverized sugar, 4 ounces pulverized cubebs, 4 ounces pulverized gum-arabic, and 1 ounce pulverized extract of conium (hemlock). Mix.

5257. Roche's Embrocation, or Whooping Cough Liniment

5257. Roche's Embrocation, or Whooping Cough Liniment. Olive oil, 8 ounces; oil of amber, 4 ounces; oil of cloves, a sufficient quantity to give it a strong scent. Mix. Rubbed on the chest it stimulates the skin; it is useful in general for the coughs of children; in whooping-cough, however, it ought not to be used for the first ten days of the disease. This liniment is understood to be the same as the celebrated embrocation of Roche.

5258. Dupuytren's Pills

5258. Dupuytren's Pills. Take 120 grains powdered guaiacum, 4 grains corrosive chloride of mercury (corrosive sublimate), and 5 grains powdered opium; make into 40 pills.

5259. Anodyne Necklaces

5259. Anodyne Necklaces. Beads formed of the root of henbane, and used as necklaces, to allay tho pain of teething.

5260. Digestive, or Live - long Candy

5260.   Digestive, or Live - long Candy. Powdered rhubarb, 60 grains; heavy magnesia, 1 ounce; bicarbonate of soda, 1 drachm; finely-powdered ginger, 20 grains; cinnamon powder, 15 grains; powdered white sugar, 2 ounces; mucilage of tragacanth, sufficient quantity; beat together and divide into square, flat cakes of 20 grains each.

5261. Cholagogue

5261.    Cholagogue. Quinine, 20 grains; Peruvian bark, 1 ounce; rhubarb, 1 ounce; sulphuric acid, 15 or 20 drops, or 1 scruple tartaric acid; brandy, 1 gill, and water to make 1 pint. Dose, 2 spoonfuls every 2 hours in absence of fever.

5262. Malone's Mixture for a Cough or Cold

5262.    Malone's Mixture for a Cough or Cold. Take 1 tea-cupful of flaxseed, soak all night. In tho morning put in a kettle 2 quarts water, 1 handful of liquorice root (split up), 1/4 pound good raisins (cut in half). Boil them until the strength is thoroughly extracted, then add the flaxseed, which has been previously soaked. Let all boil about half an hour more, watching and stirring, that the mixture may not burn. Then strain and add lemon-juice and sugar to taste. Take any quantity, cold, through the day, and half a thimbleful, warm, at night. The above is a most excellent receipt.