[These forms are inserted rather with a view to show the dangerous nature of this compound than to encourage its use. No terms are sufficiently strong to express the culpability of those who would place in the hands of ignorant persons, for administration to infants and children, compounds containing opium.]

Godfrey's Smelling Salts. Sesquicarbonate of ammonia resublimed with pearlash, and a little spirit. - Dr. Paris.

Golden Spirit of Scurvy Grass. It is said to be coloured with gamboge.

Golden Ointment. Singleton's ointment, q. v. The ointment of nitric oxide of mercury is also called, golden ointment.

Goulard's Extract of Lead. Liquor plumbi subaeetatis, P. B.

Gout Paper. Sec Charta Antirheumatica, P. F.

Granville's (Dr.) Counter-irritant Lotions. See Liniment. Ammoniac Compositum, Pocket Formulary.

Graves' (Dr.) Gout Preventive. Orange peel 2 oz., rhubarb 1 oz., hiera picra 2 oz., brandy a quart. Digest for a week.

Gregory's Powder. Calcined magnesia 2 1/2 oz., powdered Turkey rhubarb 1 oz., powdered ginger 1/2 oz. Mix. The above is Dr. Gregory's formula. Some recipes add powdered chamomile. Rhubarb 1 oz., ginger 1/4 oz., p. chamomile 1/2 oz., magnesia 2 oz. Mix. Some druggists prepare it with the heavy carbonates of magnesia, instead of the calcined. See Pulvis Rhei Compositus, B. P.

Greenough's Tincture. See Tooth Cosmetics.

Griffin's Tincture, for coughs. Oil of caraway and anise, each 2 drs., saffron 1/2 oz., benzoic acid 3/4 oz., opium 5 clrs., camphor 182 oz., spirit 6 oz., honey 6 oz. When mixed and dissolved, colour with burnt sugar.

Griffith's Mixture. This is Mistura Ferri Composita of the Brit. Pharmacopoeia.

Grinrod's (Dr.) Remedy for Spasms. Sulphuric ether, aromatic spirit of ammonia, of each 1/2 oz.; acetate of morphia 1/2 gr., camphor mixture 2 oz. Mix. A teaspoonful in a little water when required.

Guestonian Embrocation. Oil of turpentine 1 1/2 oz., olive oil 1 1/2oz., dilute sulphuric acid 3 fluid drachms. - D 1/2. Paris.

Guthrie's Black Ointment. 10 grains of nitrate of silver, with 1 dr. of spermaceti ointment, and 10 drops of a solution of acetate of lead.

Guthrie's Eye Ointment. A weaker preparation of the same kind; used in ophthalmia, but causes great pain. See Ung. Hyd. Nit., Pocket Formulary.

Halford's (Sir H.) Gout Pills. Acetic extract of colchi-ciun 2J grs., Dover's powder 1 1/2 gr., compound extract of colocynth 1 1/2 gr., in each pill. One for a dose.

Harrogate Salts (Dr. Duffin's). Sulphate of magnesia 2 drs., bitartrate of potash 10 grs., sal polychrest (potassse sulphas cum sulphure, Ph. Ed.) 1/2 dr.; in a pint of warm water. For another formula see Mineral Waters (factitious) and salts for producing them, below.

Helvetius' Styptic. Melt together equal parts of alum and dragon's blood; when cold, powder the compound.

Henry's Magnesia. A solution of Epsom salts is precipitated by one of carbonate of potash in the cold; the precipitate is well washed, rose water being used for the last washing; it is then made up while drying into large or small cubes. See Magnes. Carbonas levis, B. P.

Hill's Balsam of Honey. Balsam of Tolu 2 oz., styrax 2 drs., opium 1/2 dr., honey 8 oz., spirit of wine 32 fluid ounces.

Hoffman's Pills contain corrosive sublimate, about 1/8th of a grain in each. See Pocket Formulary.

Houlton's Laudanum. Opium 2 1/2 oz., distilled vinegar 32 fluid oz.; macerate 6 days with a gentle heat, and filter. Evaporate to an extract. Dissolve this in 5 fluid oz. of rectified spirit, and 35 fluid ounces of distilled water.

Hooper's Female Pills. These, according to Dr. Paris, consist of Rufus' Pill, sulphate of iron, canella, and a portion of ivory-black. Mr. Gray gives two formulAe:

1. Sulphate of iron 8 oz., water 8 oz.; dissolve and add Barbadoes aloes 40 oz., canella 6 oz., myrrh 2 oz., opo-ponax 1/2 oz. Makes a mass.

2. Sulphate of iron 2 oz., powder of aloes with canella 16 oz., mucilage of tragacanth and tincture of aloes q. s. to form a mass. Divide 60 grains into 18 pills. According to a recent analysis, the iron is in a peroxidized state; probably the sulphate is partially calcined.

The Philadelphia College of Pharmacy gives the following formula:

3. Barbadoes aloes 8 oz., dried sulphate of iron 2 oz. and 1 1/2 dr., extract of black hellebore 2 oz., myrrh and soap each 2 oz., canella 1 oz., ginger 1 oz., water q. s. to form a mass. Divide into pills of 2 1/2 grs. each.

Hooping Cough; popular remedies for. 1. Cochineal and salt of tartar mixture. This appears to have been first introduced by Dr. Lobb, in 1765, and is still a favourite domestic remedy. Salt of wormwood (subcarbonate (carbonate) of potash) 20 grs., powdered cochineal 10 grs., hot water i of a pint; triturate together, strain and sweeten with white sugar (or sugar candy). Dose, a teaspoonful to a tablespoonful, according to the age.

2. Fumigating potvders. Styrax calamita and gum benzoin, of each a scruple, placed on hot cinders or a heated shovel, in the patient's room, every day.

Huxham's Tincture of Bark. The Compound Tincture of Bark of the London Pharmacopoeia is precisely that of Huxham, except that he used brandy instead of proof spirit.

Issue Peas. Those in general use are unripe oranges (orange berries) turned in a lathe. The unturned berries are also used. Peas are also turned from orris root. Niemann give the following composition for issue peas: - Yellow wax 1J. oz., powdered turmeric loz., powdered orris 1/2 oz., Venice turpentine q. s. These are more stimulating, and are used to increase the discharge. The following, according to Dr. Gray, will open an issue itself: yellow wax 6 oz., verdigis 2 oz., white hellebore 2 oz., cantharides 1 oz., orris 1 1/2 oz., Venice turpentine q. s.

James's Powder. It is not known in what respect the mode of preparing this powder differs from the Pharmacopoeia process for antimonial powder. Dr. James's specification is vague and impracticable.