leeks, scald them in milk and water, and put them in layers into a
dish, with the pilchards. Cover the whole with a good plain crust. When
the pie is taken out of the oven, lift up the side crust with a knife,
and empty out all the liquor: then pour in half a pint of scalded cream.

PILE OINTMENT. Cut some green shoots of elder early in the spring, clear
away the bark, and put two good handfuls into a quart of thick cream.
Boil it till it comes to an ointment, and as it rises take it off with a
spoon, and be careful to prevent its burning. Strain the ointment
through a fine cloth, and keep it for use.

PILES. If this complaint be occasioned by costiveness, proper attention
must be paid to that circumstance; but if it originate from weakness,
strong purgatives must be avoided. The part affected should be bathed
twice a day with a sponge dipped in cold water, and the bowels regulated
by the mildest laxatives. An electuary, consisting of one ounce of
sulphur, and half an ounce of cream of tartar, mixed with a sufficient
quantity of treacle, may be taken three or four times a day. The patient
would also find relief by sitting over the steam of warm water. A useful
liniment for this disorder may be made of two ounces of emollient
ointment, and half an ounce of laudanum. Mix them with the yolk of an
egg, and work them well together.

PILLS. Opening pills may be made of two drams of Castile soap, and two
drams of succotrine aloes, mixed with a sufficient quantity of common
syrup. Or when aloes will not agree with the patient, take two drams of
the extract of jalap, two drams of vitriolated tartar, and as much syrup
of ginger as will form them of a proper consistence for pills. Four or
five of these pills will generally prove a sufficient purge; and for
keeping the body gently open, one may be taken night and
morning.--Composing pills may consist of ten grains of purified opium,
and half a dram of Castile soap, beaten together, and formed into twenty
parts. When a quieting draught will not sit upon the stomach, one or two
of these pills may be taken to great advantage.--Pills for the jaundice
may be made of one dram each of Castile soap, succotrine aloes, and
rhubarb, mixed up with a sufficient quantity of syrup. Five or six of
these pills taken twice a day, more or less, to keep the body open, with
the assistance of a proper diet, will often effect a cure.

PIPERS. Boil or bake them with a pudding well seasoned. If