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Irritating Plaster

Boil toa gargle for sore throat, attended with foul breath. Take 2 grains of the crystals to 1 ounce of water. 5068. Gargle for Inflammation of the Throat. Purified nitre, 2 drachms; barley water, 7 ounces; acetate of honey, 7 drachms; mix the ingredients. To be used frequently. 5069. Gargle for General Domestic Use in Sore Throat. Take 3 tea-spoonfuls vinegar, 2 tea-spoonfuls tincture of myrrh, 2 of honey, a glass of port wine, and 3 or 4 wineglasses of warm water; mix all these ingredients, and the gargle is ready for use. A decoction of the leaves of the black currant may, with good effect, be added instead of the warm water. This makes both a pleasant and most useful gargle. 5070. Mucilaginous Gargle for Inflamed Throat. Tincture of myrrh, 3 drachms; mucilage of gum-arabic, 7 ounces.

Mix. This gargle is of use in defending the parts when the saliva is of an acrid character. 5071. Gargle for Threatened Mortification of the Throat. Tincture of capsicum, 6 drachms; honey of roses, 3 drachms; infusion of roses, 1/2 pint. Mix. Or: Tincture of capsicum, 6 drachms; infusion of Peruvian gether 1 pound tar, ounce burgundy pitch, bark, 5 ounces; port wine, 3 ounces. 1 ounce white pine turpentine, and 2 ounces 5072. Gargle to Promote Suppuraresin. Finely powder 1 ounce each man- tion. Barley water and infusion of linseed. drake root, blood root, poke root, and Indian This gargle is to be used warm. It must be CAUSTICS-RUBEFACIENTS-BALSAMS.

Rubefacients. kept in view that this mild gargle acts by Substances or softening the parts of the throat, and hastenagents, which, when applied for a cering the suppuration by its heat; and it is tain time to the skin, occasion a redness and requisite, therefore, that the temperature of increase of heat without blistering. They the gargle be kept up. act as counter-irritants. Mustard or pow- 5073. Carbolized Gargle for Diphthe- dered ginger, made into a paste with water, ria, Tonsilitis, &c. Carbolic acid, 20 min- hartshorn and oil, and ether or alcohol (when ims; acetic acid, 1/22 drachm; honey, 2 fluid ounces; tincture of myrrh, 2 fluid drachms; water, 6 fluid ounces. The carbolic and acetic acids to be well shaken together before the other ingredients are added. (Charles Sedgwick.) or destroy the texture of the skin and organized bodies. Their action is commonly called burning. The principal caustics employed by surgeons are nitrate of silver, caustic potassa, sulphate of copper, red oxide of mercury, and the nitric and acetic acids. their evaporation is prevented), are among this class of remedies.