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Glycerine. — A sweet, transparent liquid, obtained from fatty substances. Only pure glycerine (Bower's or Price's) should be used. Its principal employment is as an external application ; to chapped hands, ears, lips, etc. To a very delicate skin it is, when pure, somewhat irritating. Adding the same amount of rose-water makes a very nice preparation. Glycerine and borax mixed make a good paste to put upon sores in the mouth. In teaspoonful doses, glycerine is gently laxative to the bowels. It is given sometimes for this purpose to children. Glycerine is antiseptic ; that is, it tends to keep dead animal matter (meats, etc.) from putrefaction ; and to ward off the effects of decay-poison upon or within surfaces of the body. It is therefore a good ingredient in washes for the parts involved after child-birth. Glycerine with tannin makes a very good astringent lotion for frosted feet, also for enlarged tonsils, sore nipples, running from the ears, and fissure of the arms. For the glycerole of tannin, rub together one ounce of tannin (tannic acid) and four fluidounces of glycerine, in a mortar; heat this mixture gently (best in a porcelain dish) until a perfect solution is made. Gum=Arabic. — A soothing (not nourishing) material for a drink, in cases of irritation of the throat, or cough. It is simply dissolved in water, a tablespoonful to a half pint. Some persons like to chew and dissolve the gum in the mouth for the same purpose, instead of licorice or candy. Hamamelis Virginiana is the witch hazel ; principal ingredient in Poinfs Extract. Tincture of Hamamelis is much used by some physicians in England for spitting blood ; if the blood comes from the stomach, one drop of the tincture in water, every ten or fifteen minutes at first ; after a few doses, at longer intervals until relief is afforded. If it be hemorrhage from the lungs, the dose of the same tincture may be one drop every hour or two. Larger doses will cause throbbing headache with some persons. It is also given for bleeding from the bowels or from piles. Hoffmann's Anodyne. ing stimulant to the nervous system, with some anodyne or pain-relieving power. It is useful in attacks of gout in the stomach or heart, palpitation from or with weakness, angina pectoris (which see, hereafter), asthma, etc. Dose, a teaspoonful, in water. Hops.- A Hop-pillo7v is sometimes used for sleeplessness. To prepare it, fill a small pillow-case with hops, which have l)een sprinkled with alcohol to l)ring out the active principle. Tincture of Hops, dose a teaspoonful, is a mild hypnotic or sleep-producer. Tincture of lupuli)i (the active principle of hops) 5^9 .\ strong warm- has more power of the same kind ; but both are far weaker in this action than opium or chloral and their preparations. Hot Water. — Hot water, as a means of conveying heat to the interior of the body, is a stimulant to the stoniacli, to the great nci've centres back of the stomach, and to the general blood-circulation. Hence the efficacy of drinking a goblet of hot water at regular intervals, as preceding each meal. Like nebbing^ viitstard-plasters , or other stimulants applied to the outside of the body, such internal excitation may make a powerful and often serviceable alternative impression .