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Use for severe sore throat, relaxed uvula, &c. [VIOLENT PASSIONS LEAD TO GREAT DEPRESSIONS.] 522. For Salivation. Mix from one to four drachms of bruised gall-nuts with a pint of boiling water, and infuse for two hours, then strain and sweeten. 523. Tonic and Stimulant. Mix six ounces of decoction of bark with two ounces of tincture of myrrh, and half a drachm of diluted sulphuric acid. Use in scorbutic affections. 524. Alum. Dissolve one drachm of alum in fifteen ounces of water, then add half an ounce of treacle, and one drachm of diluted sulphuric acid. Use as an astringent. 525. Myrrh. Add six drachms of tincture of myrrh to seven ounces of infusion of linseed, and then add one drachm of diluted sulphuric acid. Use as a detergent. 526. For Slight Inflammation of the Throat. Add one drachm of sulphuric ether to half an ounce of syrup of marsh-mallows, and six ounces of barley water. This may be used frequently. 527. Lotions. Lotions are usually applied to the parts required by means of a piece of linen rag or piline, wetted with them, or by wetting the bandage itself. They are for outward application only. 528. Emollient. Use decoction of marsh-mallow or linseed. 529. Elder Flowers. Add two drachms and a half of elder flowers to one quart of boiling water, infuse for one hour, and strain. Use as a discutient. 530. Sedative. Dissolve one drachm of extract of henbane in twenty-four drachms of water. 531. Opium. Mix two drachms of bruised opium with haif a pint of boiling water.