Composing Pill.
Take of purified opium, ten grains; Castile soap, half a drachm. Beat them together, and form the whole into twenty pills.
When a quieting draught will not sit upon the stomach, one, two, or three of these pills may be taken, as occasion requires.
Fœtid Pill.
Take of asafœtida, half an ounce; simple syrup, as much as is necessary to form it into pills.
In hysteric complaints, four or five pills, of an ordinary size, may be taken twice or thrice a-day. They may likewise be of service to persons afflicted with the asthma.
When it is necessary to keep the body open, a proper quantity of rhubarb, aloes, or jalap, may occasionally be added to the above mass.
Hemlock Pill.
Take any quantity of the extract of hemlock, and adding to it about a fifth part its weight of the powder of the dried leaves, form it into pills of the ordinary size.
The extract of hemlock may be taken from one grain to several drachms in the day. The best method, however, of using these pills, is to begin with one or two, and to increase the dose gradually, as far as the patient can bear them, without any remarkable degree of stupor or giddiness.