Whatever ratio is adopted, should be _accurately_ followed. Have true scales for weighing solids, and a graduated measure marked from ten drops up to one hundred for liquids; then _always_ weigh or measure _accurately_ the medicine, as well as the substance with which it is to be attenuated. The measure and mortar, after using them for one medicine, can be cleaned preparatory for another, with scalding water, rinsing them with purified Alcohol, then drying. Never smoke or chew Tobacco in any place, but if you are such a _slave_ to habit, that you must do it despite your good sense and better judgment, never do either, or have tobacco or any other odoriferous substance about your person when you are preparing medicines, or they are exposed to the air. Keep the medicines excluded from the light and air as far as practicable. Triturate the powders thoroughly for an hour or more upon each, and shake the dilution from fifty to one hundred times, more for the higher attenuations. It is better to medicate pellets in large bottles, filling them half or two-thirds full, put in just liquid enough to wet every one, but not so as to dissolve any. Shake them until all are equally wet, and let them stand for four or five days, if practicable, shaking them up two or three times a day until all are dry. INDEX. Administration of Remedies, 11 Ague, 22 Ague, preventive treatment of, 153 Asthma, 57 Aphthae, 90 Asiatic Cholera, 104 Amenorrhoea, 129 Ague in the breast, 135 Attenuation of medicines, 151 Bathing, 12 Bilious Fever, 26 Preventive treatment of, 153 Bronchitis, 51 Burns and Scalds, 64 Bilious Colic, 19 Brain Fever, 70 Bee stings, 75 Bite of Rattlesnake, 77 Bruises, 95 Cholera Case, 3 Colic, 18 Colic, Bilious, 19 Cholera Morbus, 21 Cholera, Asiatic, 104 Preventive treatment of, 153 Chill Fever, 22 Continued Fever, 28 Catarrhal Fever, 28 Cough, 52 Colds, 57 Colds, Preventive treatment of, 154 Croup, 55 Constipation, 62 Chilblains, 69 Convulsions of Children, 72 Crusta Lactea, 122 Carbuncle, 122 Diarrhoea, 14 Preventive treatment of, 154 Dysentery, 16 Preventive treatment of, 154 Diet, Rules for, 13 Dyspepsia, 58 Diseases of Females, 129 Dysmenorrhoea, 131 Enteritis, 53 Erysipelas, 62 Epistaxis, 81 Earache, 84 Foreign Substances in the Ear or Nose, 144 Fevers, 22 Intermittent, 22 Chill, 22 Fits of Children, 72 Felon, 126 Flowing, 132 Female weakness, 198 Gastritis, 54 Hooping Cough, 58 Heartburn, 62 Hoarseness, 70 Headache, 78 Sick, 80 Introduction, 5 Intermittent Fever, Ague, 22 Inflammation of the Lungs, 49 Inflammation of the Brain, 70 Inflammation of the Bowels, 53 Inflamed Eyes, 91 Incontinence of Urine, 117 Involuntary urination (nightly), 117