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Heartburn

Anxiety and pain the following ingredients into 40 pills: 2 attended by a sense of gnawing and heat; scruples cach compound extract of colocynth, and compound rhubarb pill (see No. 4923); 1 scruple blue mass (see No. 4919); 55 grains soap; 1 drachm extract henbane; 3 drops oil of cloves. Take 2 pills at bed-time.

5683. Spackman's Anti-Dyspeptic Pills. Make into a mass, 6 drachms 24 grains powdered powdered aloes; 3 drachms 20 grains each gamboge, scammony, and compound extract of colocynth; 96 grains soap; 15 drops each oil of caraway and oil of anise; with 1 drachm water. Divide the mass into 16 parts, and make each part into 24 pills; 384 pills altogether. A dose consists of 3 pills. hence called heartburn. Faintness, nausea, and eructation of a thin, acidulous, watery liquid, especially in the morning, are common symptoms of this complaint. The usual drinking, the use of improper food, and sedencauses of heartburn are excess in eating or tary habits. A good remedy is a tea-spoonful of carbonate of magnesia, or carbonate of soda, in a glass of peppermint or cinnamon water, to which a little powdered ginger may be added with advantage. This dose may be taken 2 or 3 times daily until the disease is removed. Articles of food that easily underavoided, and a dry diet had recourse to as go fermentation should at the same time be much as possible. Soda-water, toast and water, and weak spirits and water, are the most suitable beverages in this complaint. there is a tendency to confined bowels, some