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MAKE FORTY

OF

DR. KITCHINER'S

PERISTALTIC PERSUADERS.

TAKE Rhubarb finely pulverized, Two drachms;
Syrup (by weight) One drachm;

Oil of Carraway, Ten drops (Minims).

Make Forty Pills, each of which will contain Three grains of Rhubarb.

At any time when your Stomach feels as if something is offending it, and it seems to say to your Mouth, "I wish You would be so obliging as to swallow something that will accelerate the Alvine exoneration," introduce two or three of these Pills

Experience will soon teach you the number

convenient.

Peristaltic Persuaders are the most convenient Laxative for Travellers; but in the case of any thing extremely disagreeing with the Stomach, and a quick acting remedy be required, dissolve a teaspoonful of Epsom or Glauber Salts in half-a-pint of as warm water as you can drink, and repeat it every half-hour till it operates. Glauber's Salt keeps best in a warm Climate. Epsom Salt attracts moisture, is apt to deliquesce, and is preserved with more difficulty.

In other Persons, the change of Food and Drink occasionally gives rise to a morbid acidity in the Stomach, &c. and to a very distressing Diarrhoea: the remedy for this is,

R Compound Powder of Kino, one drachm;

Compound Powder of Chalk, half an ounce. Mix thoroughly together, and divide it into Six Pow

ders, One of which may be taken once or twice a day, in a teaspoonful of Brandy and three tablespoonsful of Water.

This conveniently portable Astringent will keep good for Years in any Climate.

TRAVELLING

MEDICINE CHESTS.

THAT a Box of Physic and a collection of Receipts may save the expense of employing a Physician, is about as absurd an idea as to suppose that providing Yourself with a Chest of his Tools may save the Expense of employing a Watchmaker! Thirty years ago, when I first began to study Physic, the specious stories I read of the powers of various Drugs, induced me to purchase a Medicine Chest, which contained Eight Bottles, and hardly ventured out of one Room into another without carrying it with me. A year or two after, I bought Another, which had Fourteen,

and then Another, which had Thirty-five. As Experience gradually illumined my Mind, I became less believing in the specific powers of Physic, and got back to my Eight Bottles-and now, alas! I am reduced to a Box of "Peristaltic Persuaders,”—and in any Ailment beyond their power, I call in a Medical friend.

The Body cannot be much Diseased, without the Mind becoming Disordered also, and in a very unfit condition for any thing like directing a Fight against

DEATH.

If it were known what particular intention a Recipe was directed for; the Ages of different People, their Habits and Temperaments, still the various complications of their Disorders would require a very minute investigation, before it should be administered: - I have said all that I can, on the means of Preserving and Magnifying the Enjoyments