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Show Fsa OSaa! ag Sails So SOCOTRINE ALOES, SOCOTRINE ALOES. 548 . Aortic Powper witn Guatacum. Comrpunp Pitts or Axors. (Pilule Aloes Coniposita. T: 0 ; ‘ powdere ered, oe: ounce ;j : ike of socotrine aloes, > | ; (Palvis Aloes cum sree Lb. D.) Guaiaco. extract of gentian, half an ounce; Take of socotrine aloes, one ounce anda half; (Hepatic aloes, D.) gum guaiacum, one ounce; aromatic powder, half an ounce: Although soap can scarcely be thought to facilitate the solution of the aloes in the stomach, as was supposed by Boerhaave and This powder is supposed to combine the sudorific effects of the added, to give it the proper consistence for making pills. When we “ It is given in the rheu- extract of gentian is triturated with aloes, they re-act upon oaths matism. The dose is ten grains to a scruple, night and morning. other, and become too soft to form pills, so that the addition of Axortic Powper with Iron. (Pulvis Aloeticus cum Ferro. L.) fectly unnecessary ; unless, at the same time, some powder be guaiac with the purgative of the aloes. AY == a BG Se ad fes A others, itis, probably, the most convenient substance that ean be on people of sedentarylives, and, upon the whole, are one of Reduce them separately to powder, and mix them. This combination is sufficiently judicious, as in some cases the combined effects of an aloetic and chalybeate prove of very great advantage. But powder is a bad form of exhibiting aloes; we would therefore recommendit to be formed into pills or boluses, with a little mucilage. Itis givenin chlorosis. ‘The dose is five grains to a scruple. the most useful articles in the materia medica. ten grains. The dose about Piicsor Aiets ian heures (Pile Alaesclhaix Fostide. E.) Take of socotrine aloes, in powder, assafoetida, ——— soap, equal parts: Avortic Pitts. (Pilule Aloetice. 1.) Take of aloes, in powder, soap, equal parts. Beat them with simple syrup into a mass fit for making pills. Priurs or Arors AnD Grnerr. any syrup to the mass, as directed by the London colleges is per- added to give it consistency. These pills are much used as warm and stomachie laxatives : they are very well suited for the costiveness so often attendant Take of socotrine aloes, an ounce andahalf; myrrh, two ounces ; —_— dry extract of gentian, vitriolated iron, of each one ounce: a Beat them together: Rubthe aloes and gumguaiacumseparatelyto powder ; then mix them with the aromatic powder. Mi oe a ———oil of carawayseeds, two scruples ; ——— syrup of ginger, as much as is sufficient $ (Pilule Aloes cum Zingibere. D.) Take of hepatic aloes, one ounce; — ginger root, in powder, one drachm; soap, half an ounce ; essence of peppermint, half a drachm. : Formthem into a mass, with mucilage of gum Arabic. These pills, in doses of about ten grains, twice a-day, produce the most salutary effects in cases of dyspepsia, attended with flatulence arid costiveness. Pitts or Aioes wit CoLocyNTH (Pilule Aloes cum Colocynthide. E.) Take of socotrine aloes, ——— scammony, of each eight parts ; —— colocyith, four parts ; —— oil of cloves, ———— sulphate of potass with sulphur, of each one part ; Powder the aloes with the ginger, then add the soap and the oil, Reduce the aloes and scammonyinte a powder, with the salt; so as to form an intimate mixture. Forms an excellent purge for costive habits, in the dose of five to ten grains. then let the colocynth, beat into a veryfine powder, and the oil, be added : lastly, make it into a proper mass with mucilage of Sum Arabic. ‘his suits best very costive habits of body. |