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quantity for seven years, one half-for five years, one third-for three years, one fourth-for twenty-eight months, one fifth--for fourteen months, one eighth-for seven months, one twelfth-for two months, one fifteenth-for one month, one twentieth-under, one twenty-fourth.

It is recommended that laudanum, antimonial wine, and other active fluids, should not be given to young children after there is a cloud in them, as the strength is then uncertain. In such cases, the substance having fallen to the bottom, the top of the fluid is weaker, and the bottom stronger.

LAXATIVE PILLS. Take of powder of cinnamon, 10 grains; socotorine aloes in fine powder, and castile soap, of each one drachm. Beat them together in a stone or iron mortar, adding one or two drops of sirup or molasses. Make into 32 pills. Dose for grown persons, two at bed time.

PILLS OF ALOES AND FETIDA. Take socotorine aloes, assafœtida, and soap, equal parts. Pill with gum arabic. These pills are good in indigestion, attended with costiveness, and wind in the stomach and bowels.

HULL'S COLIC PILLS. Take cinnamon, cloves, mace, myrrh, saffron, ginger, castile soap, of each one drachm, socotorine aloes one ounce, essence of peppermint sufficient to moisten it. Make common sized pills, and take them till they operate.

PURGING PILLS. Take rhubarb one part, cream tartar three parts, grind together, and take a tea-spoonful in molasses occasionally to prevent costiveness.

SIR H. HALFORD'S APERIENT PILLS. Take of blue pill, twenty grains; compound extract of colocynth, half a drachm: mix and divide into twelve pills. One or two to be taken for a dose every second or third night.

STRENGTHENING PILLS. Take of subcarbonate of iron, two drachms; ipecacuanha, in powder, one scruple; extract of gentian, two scruples; socotorine aloes, powdered, eight grains; simple sirup or mucilage, enough to form a mass; divide into forty pills. Take two or three twice or thrice a day.

TO EXCITE PERSPIRATION.. Take of opium, six grains; camphor, twelve grains; James' powder, twelve grains; conserve enough to form into twelve pills. One to be taken at bed time, occasionally.

ADHESIVE PLASTER. Take of yellow resin, half a pound; lead plaster, three pounds; melt the lead plaster by a gentle heat, then add the resin in powder, and mix. This is the plaster commonly applied to cuts, and to hold together the edges of recent wounds.

ANODYNE PLASTER. Take of hard opium, powdered, half an ounce; resin of spruce fir, powdered, three ounces; lead plaster, a pound, melt the plaster and resin together, and then add the opium and mix.

STRENGTHENING PLASTER. Take of litharge plaster, four ounces; white resin, one ounce; yellow wax, olive oil, of each half an ounce :

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rub the iron with the oil, and adding the other ingredients, mix the whole.

PICRA. Socotorine aloes, one pound; white canella, three ounces; separately powdered and then mixed. Good purgative. Dose between a scruple and a drachm. May be taken in sirup or molasses.

SWEATING POWDER, OR DOVER'S POWDer. Ipecac in powder; opium, (dry,) of each one part; sulphate of potash, eight parts; grind them together to a fine powder. Dose from five to twenty grains, as the stomach and strength will bear it; lessen the dose if it threatens to puke. This is a powerful sweating remedy in fevers, rheumatisms, and dropsy, excellent in colds and suppressed respiration. In general, this is the best opiate, as the Ipecac lessens the danger of a habitual use of opium-a thing to be avoided next to habits of intoxication.

ELIXIR PROPRIETATUS, ELIX. PRO., OR TINCTURE OF MYRRH AND ALOES. Take of myrrh in powder, two ounces; alcohol, one pound and a half; water, half a pound; mix the alcohol with the water and add the myrrh. Steep four days, and then add, socotorine aloes, an ounce and a half; saffron, an ounce. Steep three days, and pour off the clear liquor from the sediment. Laxative and stomachic.

TINCTURE OF BARK, OR HUXHAM'S TINCTURE. Take of Peruvian bark in powder, two ounces; orange peel dried, half an ounce; Virginia snake root bruised, three drachms; saffron, one drachm; proof spirits (rum,) two pounds; steep fourteen days and strain. Good preparation of the bark taken as a bitter, a tea-spoonful to a glass of wine before eating; useful in low fevers.

TINCTURE OF GUAIAC. Take of gum guaiac, one pound; alcohol, two pounds and a half; steep for seven days, and strain. A powerful sweating remedy in rheumatism and old gouty affections. Dose, a teaspoonful in spirit.

LAUDANUM. Take of opium, two ounces; diluted alcohol, two pounds; digest seven days. This is an elegant opiate, but separates by keeping.

ELIXIR ASTHMATIC. Take liquorice root, (pounded pretty fine,) one pound; common honey, one pound; Benzoic acid, or flowers, half an ounce; gum opium (good,) half an ounce; gum camphor, a third of an ounce; oil of annise, two drachms; common pearlash, half an ounce; best old spirits, eight pints. To the liquorice pounded pretty fine, add the other ingredients, taking care to pulverize the opium. When prepared, it should be kept in a warm place ten or twelve days, and decanted clear. The remaining liquor must be squeezed from the roots and filtered through a piece of unsized paper.

LINSEED MEAL POULTICE. Scald your basin by pouring a little hot water into it; then put a small quantity of finely ground linseed meal into the basin, pour a little hot water on it, and stir it round briskly, until you have well incorporated it; add a little more meal and a little more water, then stir it again. Do not let any lumps remain in the basin, but stir the poultice well, and do not be sparing of your trouble. BREAD AND WATER POULTICE. Put half a pint of hot water into

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a pint basin, add to this as much of the crumbs of bread as the water will cover, then place a plate over the basin, and let it remain about ten minutes; stir the bread about in the water, or, if necessary, chop it a little with the edge of the knife, and drain off the water by holding the knife on the top of the basin; but do not press the bread as is usually done; then take it out lightly, and spread it about one third of an inch on some soft linen, and lay it upon the part. If the part to which it is applied be a wound, a bit of lint dipped in oil may be placed beneath the poultice. "This poultice," says Mr. Abernethy," may be made with poppy water, if thought necessary; it may be made with hemlock juice, if recently expressed, which is a very good application to irritable sores; but there is nothing better, that I know of, than the bread poultice to broken surfaces."

MUSTARD POULTICE. Take of mustard seed, and linseed, of each, (in powder,) half a pound; hot vinegar, a sufficient quantity; mix them to the consistency of a poultice, and the poultice will be fit for

use.

YEAST POULTICE. Take of flour, a pound; yeast of beer, half a pint; mix, and expose the mixture to a gentle heat, until it begins to swell, when it is fit for use.

SIMPLE OINTMENT. Take olive (sweet) oil, five parts; white wax, two parts; melt together. May be used for softening the skin, and healing chaps and excoriations.

GOLDEN OINTMENT. Take of purified quicksilver, an ounce; nitric acid, eleven drops; lard, six ounces; olive oil, four ounces; dissolve the mercury in the acid, then mix the hot solution, with the oil and lard melted together. This is an excellent ointment for sore eyes, scald head and most sorts of ulcers. When first used, it should be mixed with an equal quantity of simple ointment.

SULPHUR OINTMENT. Take of hog's lard, four parts; flowers of sulphur, one part; to each pound of this ointment may be added, volatile oil of lemons, or oil of lavender, half a drachm. A certain remedy for the cure of itch. A pound serves for four unctions. The patient should be rubbed four nights in succession, each time one fourth part of the body.

SIR H. HALFORD'S PILE OINTMENT. Take one ounce of golden ointment, and the same quantity of almond oil; mix them carefully in a mortar. Apply this ointment to the part affected once or twice daily.

YELLOW BASILICUM OINTMENT. Take of yellow wax, white resin, and frankincence, of each one quarter of a pound; mix, and melt over a gentle fire, then add lard, one pound: strain the ointment while warm. This ointment is the best dressing for all heathy ulcers.

SIMPLE SIRUP. Take of double refined sugar, fifteen parts; water, eight parts. Let the sugar be dissolved by a gentle heat, and boiled a little, so as to form a sirup.

SIRUP OF GINGER. Take of best ginger, three ounces; boiling water, four pounds; double refined sugar, seven and a half pounds; steep the ginger in the water, in a close vessel, for twenty-four hours, then

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to the strained liquor add the best sugar, so as to make a sirup. This is an agreeable and inoderately aromatic sirup; impregnated with the flavor and the virtues of the ginger.

SIRUP OF LEMONS. Take of juice of lemons, suffered to stand till the sediment falls, then strain off the liquor, three parts; double refined sugar, five parts; dissolve the sugar in the juice till it forms a sirup. In the same way, are prepared sirup of mulberry juice; sirup of raspberry juice, and sirup of black currant juice. All these are pleasant cooling sirups; quenching thirst; and may be used in gargles for sore mouths.

VOLATILE LINIMENT. Take spirit of hartshorn, one part; sweet oil, or fresh butter, two parts; mix, and shake in a viol. Sometimes a little landanum or camphor is added.

LINIMENT OF OIL AND LIME. Take of linseed oil, lime water, of each equal parts; mix them. This liniment is extremely useful in burns and scalds; efficacious in preventing inflammation after such accidents.

CAMPHORATED OIL. Take of olive oil, two ounces; camphor, half an ounce; dissolve the camphor in the oil. Good, applied to local pains; to glandular swellings, and to the bowels in tympany.

OPODELDOC. Take of the best hard soap, two ounces; camphor, one ounce; very strong spirit, one pint: mix the soap with the spirit, and let them stand in a moderate heat, until the soap is dissolved, occasionally shaking the vial; then add the camphor, and continue to shake the vessel frequently until the whole is dissolved. Useful in sprains, bruises, and in rheumatic pains. Good to disperse swellings, tumors and the like.

COTTON.

PART IV.

MANUFACTURES.

COTTON. The rearing of cotton, and the manufacture of it into various fabrics, have of late years become objects of so much attention, in several parts of the world, that we shall devote the greater space to a notice of these two subjects, than our limits would otherwise seem to justify.

The plant which produces cotton is cultivated in the East and West Indies, in North and South America, of which it is a native, and in Egypt, and other parts of the world. It is an annual plant, propaga ted from seeds. It grows to a considerable height, and has leaves of a bright green color marked with brownish veins, and each divided into five lobes. The pods which contain the cotton, are triangular in shape, and have each three cells. These, on becoming ripe, burst, and disclose their snow white contents.

The cotton which is cultivated in the southern parts of the United States is of three kinds-the nankeen cotton, so called from its color; the green seed cotton, producing white cotton, and green seeds; and the black seed cotton. The two first kinds are cultivated in the middle and upper country, where they go by the name of short staple cotton; the last is raised in the lower country near the sea, and on the islands adjacent to the continent. This is denominated sea island cotton; it is stronger, finer, and longer than the short staple cotton, and bears a higher price in market.

The manner of raising cotton, upon which it will be proper to make a few observations, is as follows:

If the land has been recently cleared, or has long remained fallow, turn it up deep in winter; and in the first week in March, bed it up in the following manner. Form 25 beds in 105 square feet of land, (being the space allotted to each able laborer for a day's work); this leaves about four feet two and one-half inches from the centre of one bed to the centre of the next. The beds should be three feet wide, and flat in the middle. About the 15th of March, in the latitude of from 29° to 30°, the cultivator should commence sowing, or as it is generally termed planting. The seed should be well scattered in open trenches, made in the centre of the beds and covered; the proportion of seed is one bushel to an acre; this allows for accidents occasioned by worms, or night chills. The cotton should be well weeded by hoes once every twelve days, until blown, and even longer, if there is grass,