aroma of the resin, and gives the same
relief that is afforded by the combustion, because the evaporation is
more durable. The same resin may be used for weeks.

2400. For a Cough.

Syrup of poppies, oxymel of squills, simple oxymel, in equal parts,
mixed, and a teaspoonful taken when the cough is troublesome. It is
best to have it made up by a chemist. The cost is trifling.

2401. A Mixture for a Bad Cold and Cough.

Solution of acetate of ammonia, two ounces; ipecacuanha wine, two
drachms; antimony wine, two drachms; solution of muriate of morphine,
half a drachm; treacle, four drachms; water, add eight ounces. Two
tablespoonfuls to be taken three times a day.

2402. Pills for a Bad Cough.

Compound ipecacuanha powder, half a drachm; fresh dried squills, ten
grains; ammoniacum, ten grains; sulphate of quinine, six grains;
treacle, sufficient quantity to make a mass. Divide into twelve pills;
one to be taken night and morning.

2403. Whooping Cough.

Dissolve a scruple of salt of tartar in a quarter pint of water; add
to it ten grains of cochineal; sweeten it with sugar. Give to an
infant a fourth part of a tablespoonful four times a day; two years
old, half a spoonful; from four years, a tablespoonful. Great care is
required in the administration of medicines to infants.

2404. Roche's Embrocation for Whooping Cough.

Olive oil, two ounces; oil of amber, one ounce; oil of cloves, one
drachm. Mix: to be rubbed on the chest at bedtime.

2405. Offensive Breath.

For this purpose, almost the only substance that should be admitted at
the toilette is the concentrated solution of chloride of soda, from
six to ten drops of it in a wineglassful of pure spring water, taken
immediately after the operations of the morning are completed. In some
cases, the odour arising from carious teeth is combined with that of
the stomach. If the mouth be well rinsed with a teaspoonful of the
solution of the chloride in a tumbler of water, the bad odour of the
teeth will be removed.

2406. Breath tainted by Onions.

Leaves of parsley, eaten with vinegar, will prevent the disagreeable
consequences of eating onions.

2407. Mixture for Indigestion.

Infusion of calumba, six ounces; carbonate of potass, one drachm.
Compound tincture of gentian, three drachms. _Dose,_ two or three
tablespoonfuls daily at noon.

2408. Ointment for Sore Nipple