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647. Water on the Brain. Local bleeding by means of leeches, blisters, aperients No. 5, and mercurial medicines, No. 15. 648. Whites. The mixture No. 36, with the injection No. 37. Clothing light but warm, moderate exercise in the open air, country residence. 649. Worms in the Intestines. The aperient No. 5, followed by No. 7, afterwards the free use of lime water and milk in equal parts, a pint daily. Avoid unwholesome food. 650. Prescriptions. To be used in the Cases enumerated under the head "Diseases" (page 112). 651. List of Prescriptions. The following prescriptions, originally derived from various prescribers' Pharmacopoeias, embody the favourite remedies employed by the most eminent physicians:-- 1. Take of powdered aloes, nine grains; extract of colocynth, compound, eighteen grains; calomel, nine grains; tartrate of antimony, two grains; mucilage, sufficient to make a mass, which is to be divided into six pills; two to be taken every twenty-four hours, till they act thoroughly on the bowels: in cases of inflammation, apoplexy, &c. 2. Powdered rhubarb, Socotrine aloes, and gum mastic, each one scruple; make into twelve pills: one before and one after dinner. 3. Compound extract of colocynth, extract of jalap, and Castile soap, of each one scruple; make into twelve pills. 4. James's powder, five grains; calomel, three grains: in fevers, for adults. For children, the following:--Powdered camphor, one scruple; calomel and powdered scammony, of each nine grains; James's powder, six grains; mix, and divide into six powders. Half of one powder twice a day for an infant a year old; a whole powder for two years: and for four years, the same three times a day.