Mouth Pastils. Dry compounds for perfuming or correcting the breath.

Cachou Aromatise. The basis of these compounds, as the name implies, was originally catechu, with which various odoriferous substances were combined. The catechu, however, is now often omitted. The following are some of the most approved forms:

1. Extract of liquorice 3 oz., oil of cloves 1 1/2 drs., oil of cinnamon 15 drops: mix, and divide into one-grain pills, and silver them.

2. (M. Chevallier's.) Chocolate powder and ground coffee, of each 1 1/2 oz., prepared charcoal 1 oz., sugar 1 oz., vanilla (pulverised with the sugar) 1 oz., mucilage q. s. Make into lozenges of any form, of which 6 to 8 may be used daily to disinfect the breath.

3. Cachou de Bologne. Bologna Catechu. Extract of liquorice 3 oz., water 3 oz., dissolve by heat in a water-bath, and add catechu 1 oz., gum arabic 1/2 oz.; evaporate to the consistence of an extract, and add (in powder) 1/2 dr. each of mastic, cascarilla, charcoal, and orris: remove from the fire, and add oil of peppermint 1/2 dr., essence of ambergris and essence of musk each 5 drops; roll it flat on an oiled marble slab, and cut it into very small lozenges. [Or it may be rolled into small pills, and silvered They are chiefly used by smokers.]

4. Catechu 7 drs., orris powder 40 grains, sugar 3 oz., oil of rosemary (or of peppermint, cloves, or cinnamon) 4 drops, or q. s. Proceed as for the last.

5. Cachou Aromatise. Extract of liquorice and water, of each 3 1/2 oz.; dissolve in a water-bath, and add Bengal catechu in powder, 462 grains, and gum arabic in powder 231 grains; evaporate to an extract, and then incorporate the following substances, first reduced to a fine powder: - Mastic, cascarilla, charcoal, and orris root, of each 30 grains; melt the mass to a proper consistence, remove it from the fire, and then add English oil of peppermint 30 drops, tinctures of ambergris and musk, of each 5 drops; pour it now on an oiled slab, and spread it out, by means of a roller, to the thickness of a sixpenny piece. When cool, apply some folds of blotting-paper to absorb any adherent oil, moisten the surface with water, and cover it with sheets of silver leaf. Allow it to dry, and finally divide it into thin strips, and these again into small pieces, about the size of a fenugreek seed. - (Journal de Phar-macie.) Pastils or Lozenges, with chlorine, for disinfecting the breath. 1. Sugar flavoured with vanilla 1 oz., powdered tragacanth 20 grs., liquid chloride of soda q. s., any essential oil 2 drops. Form a paste, and divide into lozenges of 15 grs. each.

2. Dry chloride of lime 2 drs., sugar 8 oz., starch 1 oz., gum tragacanth 1 dr., carmine 2 grs. Form into small lozenges.