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Godfrey's Cordial

The Phil- of a purgative or emetic if required, 2 drachms adelphia College of Pharmacy, to prevent the of this tincture are given 3 hours before the mischief arising from the different strength of paroxysm is expected, with short diet. On this compound, directs it to be prepared as the seventh, fourteenth, and eighteenth follows: Dissolve 24 ounces carbonate of day, after the last attack, the same dose is potash in 26 pints of water, add 16 pints mo- given. This remedy fails only in very exceplasses; heat together over a gentle fire till tional cases. It is in use in the Austrian milthey simmer, remove the scum, and, when itary hospitals. sufficiently cool, add 1/2 ounce oil of sassafras 5372. Kitridge's Salve. Make a dedissolved in 2 pints of rectified spirit, and 24 coction in rain water of 15 pounds cach bitterfluid ounces of tincture of opium, previously sweet root and sweet elder root; 1/24 pound mixed. It contains about 16 minims of laud- each hop vines, hop leaves, and garden plananum, or rather more than 1 grain of opium in each fluid ounce. tain tops, with pound of the root of the last named plant, and 1/2 ounce plug tobacco.

Strain, and press through a thick cloth, and evaporate to 1/2 pint. Then mix with 1 pound sweet butter and 1 ounce each resin and bees'wax. Heat gently until the water has all evaporated. This is a good curative salve for sores on the human body as well as on animals.

Iodide of Potassium. Melt glycerine (of