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Note, that with regard to Epsom salts, the larger in reason is the amount of water in which they are taken, the smaller the dose of salts required: thus, half an ounce properly dissolved may be made a strong dose. The action and efficacy of Epsom salts may be greatly increased by adding one grain of tartar emetic to a dose of salts. 747. Glauber's Salt Glauber's Salt is a very good purgative. Dose, from a half to two ounces, dissolved in warm water. 748. Sulphate of Potash Sulphate of Potash is a cathartic and deobstruent. It is used internally, combined with aloes or rhubarb, in obstructions of the bowels, and is an excellent saline purgative in dyspepsia and jaundice. Dose, from ten grains to one drachm. 749. Venice Turpentine Venice Turpentine is cathartic, diuretic, stimulant, and anthelmintic. It is used externally as a rubefacient, and is given internally in flatulent colic, in tapeworm, rheumatism, and other diseases. Dose, as a diuretic, from ten grains to one drachm; as a cathartic, from ten to twelve drachms; as an anthelmintic, from one to two ounces every eight hours, till the worm be ejected. 750. Diuretics. Diuretics are medicines which promote an increased secretion of urine. They consist of nitre, acetate of potassa, squills, juniper, oil of turpentine, and others, vegetable and mineral. 751. Nitre Nitre is a diuretic and refrigerant. It is used externally as a detergent when dissolved in water, and as a lotion to inflamed and painful rheumatic joints.