They generally raise plentiful fweats; the patient drinking moderately, now and then fomething warm. They do not fatigue the body, nor exhauft the fpirits. Inftead of being restless, as is commonly the cafe in a sweat, all thofe who can bear opiates, find themfelves comfortably at eafe during the fweat. Those with whom opiates do not perfectly agree, need not be afraid of the first of these fweats: for though I cannot bear even Venice treacle, or diacodium, on account of their narcotic quality, yet I have taken thefe powders, without finding that inconvenience. This, I am told, is to be attributed to the correcting ingredients, and the manner of preparing and compounding them. Whether thofe, who have informed me, reafon justly or not, is not my province to determine; but the fact, in regard to myfelf, is ftriatly true.

Mr. Ward always advised thofe who took thefe, and all fweats, to put themselves rather between blankets than fheets, which I have experienced to be the most agreeable way, notwithstanding a little prejudice against trying the experiment.

The former of thefe receipts is taken from Mr. Ward's book; and I do believe it to be his first manner of making them, and what he continued to give for fome years: for I remember his telling me (when I related to him the fenfations I felt during their operation) that there was opium and ipecacuanha in them.

ed, that they have been fo made and fold fince his death, excepting in the quantity of opium, of which there are three eighths less in this receipt than was put into the powders fo made and fold. This alteration is made, upon hearing, that thofe, who took them, complained of the effects of fo large a quantity of opium. However, I believe that both are very good, with this abatement of that ingredient in the latter: therefore, care will be taken that both these sweats be prepared and fold: whereby the trial may be made, and the preference given to that which fhall be found moft agreeable to each refpective conftitution.

The first of these powders seems to be most proper for those who have not been used to take opiates, or have found them to difagree: (as they, in general, do with me) and the latter for fuch, with whom they are known to agree: for there still remains (notwithstanding the beforementioned abatement) a larger quantity of opium in the latter, than in the former of thefe two receipts.

By way of experiment, I prevailed on a perfon to take one of the latter fweats, charged with the full quantity of opium; (that is, three eighths more than in the above receipt) and he told me that it affected his head very much.

At a proper interval he took one of thofe, according to the first receipt; and affured me that both fweated him very well; but the former much more agreeably than the latter.

PASTE for the FISTULA, &c.

Take a pound of alicampane root; three pounds of fennil feeds, and one pound of black pepper,

Pound

Pound thefe feparately, and fift them through a fine fieve. Take two pounds of good honey, and two pounds of powder fugar; melt the honey and the fugar together, over a gentle fire, fcumming them continually, till they become bright as amber. When they are cool, mix and knead them into your powder, in the form of a foft pafte. This pafte has been found to be a fpecific remedy for the fiftula, piles, &c.

The dofe is the fize of a nutmeg, morning, night, and noon, drinking a glafs of water or white wine after it.

Attefted by me,

F. J. D'OSTERMAN. N. B. The receipt for making this pafte ftands entered in Mr. Ward's book, in fome refpects different from that I have given from Mr. D'Ofterman: for, in the former, there is double the quantity of alicampane, to what there is in the latter. The book likewife directs clarified honey alone; whereas the above receipt orders honey and fugar, equal quantities, clarified together.

I fuppofe, therefore, that Mr. Ward entered his receipt fome time ago, and mistook the quantity of alicampane: for I am affured and convinced, that Mr. D'Ofterman always prepared the pafte for him, in the manner he fold it; that Mr. Ward never fold any but of Mr. D'Ofterman's preparing; and that Mr. D'Ofterman affirms he never put a greater quantity of alicampane into this pafte, than is mentioned in this receipt figned by him; and that the addition of the fugar was made in order to preferve the pafte from turning mouldy, as it is otherwife apt to do.

LIQUID SWEAT. Take a gallon of good fpirits of wine, and half a gallon of good white wine. Put them into a strong bottle, and add half a pound of good faffron, four ounces of good cinnamon, two ounces of falt of tartar, and one ounce of good opium cut into fmall bits. Stop the bottle clofe, and fet it within the air of the fire eight days, fhaking it three or four times a day. Filtre it through filtring paper.

The dofe is from thirty to fixty drops, in a glafs of good white wine. Attefted by me,

F. J. D'OSTERMAN. I have not yet found this fweat precifely entered in Mr. Ward's book: but as he is known to have fold many, and as I am thoroughly fatisfied that Mr. D'Ofterman always prepared them for him in the manner abovementioned, I thought it right to give this receipt to the public as one worthy of notice. DROPSY PURGING

POWDER,

from Mr. Ward's book.

This remedy feldom fails in the watery or windy dropfy, provided the patient has not been tapped.

Attefted by me,

F. J. D'OSTERMAN. Though the above receipts fo early agree, yet, as the ingredients differ in fome refpects, I have given both. The first is taken from Mr. Ward's book. The fecond is vouched by Mr. D'Ofterman to be the fame he prepared for Mr. Ward; and he affures me, that the powder, thus prepared, was what Mr. Ward gave, with great fuccefs, in dropfical cafes.

I am informed by a person skilful in pharmacy, that the latter is the fofter and fmoother medicine: for which reafon, and the reason given me by Mr. D'Ofterman, that Mr. Ward difpenfed it, chiefly, of late years at least, I make no fcruple of preferring it.

ESSENCE for the HEAD-ACH, &c. from Mr. Ward's book. Spirits of wine four ounces, camphor two ounces, volatile spirit of camphor, two ounces; mix well, and apply with the hand. ESSENCE for the HEAD-ACH, &c. as prepared by Mr. D'Ofterman, for Mr. Ward.

Take two pounds of true French fpirits of wine: put them into a large ftrong bottle, and add two ounces of roch allum in very fine powder, four ounces of camphor, cut very fmall, half an ounce of effence of lemon, and four bunces of the ftrongest volatile spirit of fal ammoniac. Stop the bottle quite clofe, ard fhake it three or four times a day, for five or fix days.

The method of ufing it, is to. rub the hand with a little of it, and hold it hard upon the part affected, until it is dry. If the

F. J. D'OSTERMAN, The first of these receipts is taken from Mr. Ward's book; and, I fuppofe it to be a very good one; yet, I give the preference to: the laft, figned by Mr. D'Ofterman; who affures me, that the effence, long used by Mr. Ward to remove pains in the head, fide, &c. by outward application, was prepared and delivered by him, from time to time, to Mr. Ward, at a certain price.

I am of opinion that Mr. Ward never fold any of this effence; nor would he ever give any of it even to me but he once cured me of the head-ach with it; and afterwards told me, that he had entirely removed a pain long fettled in the upper joint of his late majesty's thumb; when many other reme dies had been tried, without effect: And that, in the fame manner as he had cured my head-ach.

That there are a great many more receipts, of various kinds, contained in the faid book, I acknowledge; yet, I have thought it beft for the public, to confine myfelf, at prefent, to fuch as are justly esteemed the principal, the moft efficacious, the most known, and beft understood..

Having faid this, I proceed to put down the prices at which thefe medicines are intended now be fold, viz,

White drop, in a bot-1. s. d. tle, containing one third of an ounce, which is about a third part more in quantity than in the late Mr. Ward's bottles, for

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The difference, in price, between what the above medicines were fold for, and that at which they will now be fold, is undoubtedly great; and yet, there fill remains a confiderable difference between the expences of making them, and the prices now put upon them. But when it is confidered that a profit must be made, to pay thofe who are to have the trouble of felling them; and a perfon who must be employed to carry them from the makers to the venders, and keep an account with each: what a vast number must be fold, at fuch low rates, to raise a fum to answer these, and perhaps, other neceffary contingent charges and that the furplus, after difcharging thefe expences, will, under certain limitations, be equally divided between two charitable foundations (the Afylum and Magdalen :) when all this is, I say, confidered; no dissatisfaction can, I think, arife upon account of price. Neither can I fuppofe, that any prudent, or well

WHITE DROP, for the SCURVY, &c.

TAKE two drops, in a small glass of water, in the morning fafting, or at night, going to rest, for two or three days together.

Then forbear as many days as you took them, and proceed as before till the bottle is finished.

They feldom work vifibly, excepting in that fome conftitutions, they occafion one or two motions.

RED PILL.

Bruife the pill, and take it in a fpoonful of any fmall liquid, on an empty ftomach. It fometimes works upwards, fometimes downwards, according to the nature and feat of the diforder: in which cafes it is proper to drink a fmall quantity of balm or fage tea, &c. between each motion: and, if it fweats, as it fometimes does, keep yourself warm, and encou rage it by drinking as above,

The day you take it, avoid milk, greens, and fruit.

It has been experienced with great fuccefs in cafes where the ftomach or bowels are foul, or the

paffages obftructed; and particu

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larly in inveterate rheumatic dif

orders.

The EMETIC, or SACK DROP. This drop is a vomit.

When the fickness comes on, drink about half a pint of warm water, or thin water-gruel; and continue to do fo every time it works.

It has been found to cleanfe the ftomach more effectually than the vomits ufually given; and that without occafioning uncommon reachings.

The bottle is a full dofe for a man or woman; which must be leffened according to the age and ftrength of the patient. SWEATING POWDERS for the RHEUMATISM, &c.

Both forts of thefe powders ar to be taken in any liquid, going to bed, between the blankets, and drinking moderately, now and then, fomething warm; fuch as white-wine whey, balm tea, &c. The fweating is not to be checked, but encouraged, by lying ftill, and keeping warm..

At first taking, it may be proper to begin with half a dofe; increafing it gradually as occafion may require.

If half the quantity does not raise a proper fweat, then take, the next night, three quarters, or the whole dofe, and repeat it, every other night, at difcretion; and for as long a time as fhall be found neceffary; or as they agree with the conftitution.

In ftubborn rheumatic cafes, and other fettled pains in the limbs, the red pill has been found to anfwer better than thefe powders.

N. B. It is to be observed, that the quantity of opium is fomewhat lefs in the powder No. I, than in No. II. "zuda sog

PASTE for the FISTULA, PILES, &c.

Take the fize of a nutmeg twice or three times a day, drinking a glafs of water, or wine and water after it.

LIQUID SWEAT.

This is found, by experience, to be an excellent remedy for removing pains; and fometimes to anfwer better than the powders.

The patient muft lie between the blankets, and encourage the sweat by drinking now and then fomething warm; taking care not to catch cold, by going out too foon after it. The dofe is from forty to fixty drops, in a glafs of good white-wine.

DROPSY POWDER.

The dofe is from thirty to forty grains, to be taken in broth, or warm beer, two or three days together; and longer, if necessary.

They must be repeated, at proper intervals, as the cafe may require.

ESSENCE for the HEAD-ACH and PAINS.

Gently rub a little of it upon the palm of the hand, and apply it to the part affected; holding it there till it is dry. Repeat it two or three times, if the pain is not fooner relieved.

N. B. The Sweating Powder, No. II. when compounded as ordered in page 19 and 20, must be fpread thin upon white ftone dishes, &c. as directed for the sweating powders, No. I.

In an advertisement annexed to these Receipts, we are informed that Sir John Fielding and Mr. Dingley are to have the direction of all advertisements, &c. relating to the Jale of the above Medicines.

Mr.