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Use in dropsies, as a diuretic. 500. Logwood. Boil one ounce and a half of bruised logwood in two pints of water until the water is reduced to one pint; then add one drachm of bruised cassia, and strain. Dose, from one to two ounces. Use as an astringent. 501. Dandelion. Take two ounces of the freshly-sliced root, and boil in a quart of water until it comes to a pint. Dose, from two to four ounces, that is to say, from an eighth of a pint to a quarter of a pint. Use for sluggish state of the liver. 502. Embrocations and Liniments. These remedies are used externally as local stimulants, to relieve deep seated inflammations when other means cannot he employed, as they are more easily applied locally. 503. Anodyne and Discutient. Take two drachms of scraped white soap, half a drachm of extract of henbane, and dissolve them by a gentle heat in six ounces of olive oil. Use for glandular enlargements which are painful and stubborn, about half an ounce to be well rubbed into the part twice a day. 504. Strong Ammoniated. Add one ounce of strong liquid ammonia to two ounces of olive oil, shake well together until properly mixed. Use as a stimulant in rheumatic pains, paralytic numbnesses, chronic glandular enlargements, lumbago, sciatica, &c. Note that this embrocation must be used with care, and only employed in very obstinate cases. 505. Compound Ammoniated. Add six drachms of oil of turpentine to the strong ammoniated liniment above.