_Uses, &c._ It is highly prized for its odour, which is found greatly to improve and exalt that of other substances; hence its extensive use in perfumery. In _medicine_ it was formerly given as an aphrodisiac, in doses of 3 to 10 gr. “A grain or two, when rubbed down with sugar, and added to a hogshead of claret, is very perceptible in the wine, and gives it a flavour, by some considered as an improvement.” (Brande.) =Ambergris Facti′′tious.= An article of this kind, met with in the shops, is thus made:——Orris-powder, spermaceti, and gum-benzoin, of each, 1 _lb._; asphaltum, 3 or 4 _oz._; ambergris, 6 _oz._; grain-musk, 3 _dr._; oil of cloves, 1 _dr._; oil of rhodium, 1/2 _dr._; liquor of ammonia, 1 _fl. oz._; beaten to a smooth hard mass with mucilage, and made into lumps whilst soft. This fraud is readily detected. =AM′BREINE= (-bre-ĭn). _Syn._ AMBREI′NA, L.; AMBREINE, Fr.; AMBARSTOFF, Ger. The fatty, odorous principle of ambergris. _Prep._ Digest ambergris in hot alcohol (sp. gr. 0·827) until the latter will dissolve no more, then filter. The AMBREINE will be deposited as the solution cools, in an irregular crystalline mass, which may be purified by recrystallisation in alcohol. _Prop., &c._ Melts at about 90°; volatilises at 212° to 220° Fahr.; nitric acid converts it into AMBREIC ACID. It closely resembles cholesterine.——_Prod._ 85%. =AMBRETTE′= (-brĕt′). [Fr.] Musk-seed. =AMBROSIA, RING’S VEGETABLE= (Tubbs, Peterborg, U.S.). A liquid with a sediment, containing 1 per cent. of lead. (Chandler.) =AMEISEN BALSAM.= Von Dr Livingstone (Ahnelt, Charlottenburg). Balsam of ants. Castor oil, 72 grms.; balsam of Peru, 2 grms.; bergamot, 5 drops. (Hager.) =AMERICAN PILLS= (A. H. Boldt, Lexington). For full-blooded, corpulent persons, and for those of sedentary habits, for irregular menstruation, and against contagious diseases. Made of scammony, rhubarb, and soap. (Schädler.) =AMERICAN MEDICINES, Dr SAMPSON’S= (New York). Two kinds of pills of coca:——No. 1. 85 pills composed of coca extract and coca powder, and each pill containing about 0·006 grm. of a morphia salt. No. 2. 50 pills, also of coca, and each containing 0·05 grm. of powdered iron. Both kinds are rolled in lycopodium. (Hager.) =AMERICAN PILLS FOR ASTHMA.= Gilded pills made of gum ammoniacum. =AMERICAN SCHAMPOO-FLUID FOR PROMOTING THE GROWTH OF THE HAIR.= Spirit of wine and rum, with some carbonate of ammonia and potash. =AMERICAN DROPS FOR TOOTHACHE= (Majewsky, Warsaw) have been found of various composition. Some which profess to have taken a prize at the Vienna Exhibition were composed of French brandy, containing common salt, and coloured with cochineal. The first was a spirituous solution of an ethereal oil with some oil of cloves, coloured rather reddish; No. 2 was a similar solution with some oil of peppermint and tincture of rhatany; and No. 3 was merely a diluted solution of No. 2. (Hager.)