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This balsam is of service in violent strains and rheumatic complaints, when not attended with inflammation. It must be rubbed with a warm hand on the part affected ; or a linen rag moistened with it ; and renewed every third hour, till the pain abates. ANODYNE FOMENTA- TI ON — Take of white poppy-heads, two ounces ; elder flowers, half an ounce ; water, three pints. Boil till one pint is evaporated, and strain out the liquor. This fomentation relieves acute pain, If the affected part is very painful, add forty drops of Laudanum, and 30 drops of Tincture of Cayenne. ANODYNE PLASTER.— Melt an ounce of adhesive plaster, or diachlyon, and whilst cooling add a drachm of powdered Opium, and the same quantity of Camphor, previously dissolved in a small quantity of Olive oil. Spread on leather. This soon relieves an acute local pain. ANODYNE POWDER.— Opium, oz. ; camphor, 3 drs. ; valerian, 1 oz. ; cayenne pepper, 1 oz. Put the opium and camphor into a close bag ; place it on the oven top to harden. Powder and mix. Take a quarter of a tea-spoonful at a time. Most valuable in colic, cramp, and severe pains. ANTHELMINTICS. — Medicines, destroying or expelling worms. See Worms. ANTI-ACIDS. — Medicines, neutralizing acids. AN TIBILIOUS PILLS.— Extract of Colocynth, 2 drachms ; extract of J alap, 1 drachm ; Almond Soap, 1 % drachms; Guiacum, 3 drachms; tartarized Antimony, 8 grains ; oil of Juniper, 4 or 5 drops ; oil of Carraway, 4 drops ; oil of Rosemary, 4 drops. Form into a mass with Syrup of Buckthorn, and divide into pills. ANTI-CHOLERA DROPS. — Tinctures of capsicum, opium, lobelia, essence of peppermint, of each, 1 oz. Mix. Take when needful, a tea-spoonful in a little coffee. Most efficient in cholera, and affections of the bowels. ANTI - CHOLERA POW- DER— Ipecacuanha, 3 drachms ; ginger, 1 oz. ; tormentii root, 1 % ozs. ; poplar bark, 1 % ozs. ; cayenne, gum, myrrh, each 3 drachms ; carbonate of soda, 3 drachms ; cloves 2 drachms ; slippery elm, 5 drachms. Powder and mix. Dose, half a tea-spoonful every half-hour. ANTIMONI AL WINE.— This may be purchased at the druggists. As an emetic, the dose is from one to two tabic-spoonfuls. As a febrifuge, sudori- ANT ARE fic, or relaxant, from twenty to forty drops every three or four hours. — As an Emetic, Ipecacuanha, and Lobelia, stand very high, especially the latter. ANTISCORBUTIC DRINK. — Take of cream of tartar three ounces, juniper berries four ounces, ginger in powder two drachms, and five pounds of sugar, boil in six gallons of water, after boiling half-an-hour, the whole is poured into a tub and allowed to ferment. It may be drunk in the quantity of from one to three pints daily, as soon as the fermentation commences. ANTISEPTIC S.— Medicines, counteracting putrescency. ANTI SPASM O DICS. — Medicines, abating spasm. ANTI SPASMODIC TINC- TURE.— Tincture of Lobelia, i ounce, Tincture of Cayenne, i ounce ; Compound Tincture of Lady’s Slipper, % ounce ; oil of Aniseed, 20 drops. — Begin with a teaspoonful. This is an infallible remedy for spasms, fever, ague, and painful flatulence, and colic. ANTI SPASMODIC CLYS- TER.— To half a pint of thin gruel, add half an ounce, or an ounce of the Foetid Tincture, and forty to sixty drops of Laudanum. This is very useful in spasmodic affections of the bowels, in convulsions, or in all hysteric complaints.