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Foucher's Dressing for Wounds

Dissolve 2 drachms chlorate of potassa in 4 fluid ounces glycerine, and add 24 ounces altime for several nights in succession. They cohol. This forms a clear liquid which is purge smartly, and act beneficially as an em- readily absorbed by linen, and does not soil menagogue. According to a recent analysis, the clothing. It keeps the dressings moist for the iron is in a peroxidized state; probably the 24 hours, is easily washed off with lukewarm sulphate is partially calcined. The Philadel- water , and is well adapted for soft granulaphia College of Pharmacy gives the following tions. formula: Barbadoes aloes, 8 ounces; dried sulphate of iron, 9+ drachms; extract of black drachm powdered gum-arabic, 10 grains