The best aperient for females is certainly a combination of castor oil. The following form is a very good one:— Form 63. Take of— Castor oil 1 oz. Mucilage of acacia 2 oz. Spirits of sweet nitre 1 drachm. Syrup of orange-peel ½ oz. Water 1 oz. Mix. Take half for a dose. Forms 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70 see pages 156–158. Forms 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79 see pages 158–161. FOOTNOTES [1] A wash composed of one part of the chloride of soda, with five of water, is as good as can be used; the same may be injected up the urethra. [2] Lining internal structures which have no outlet, as that in the abdomen, called the peritoneal. [3] To enter into a description of the pathological condition of the bladder in the several states of irritability, paralysis, and inflammation, would be to swell this article to an inordinate length, and serve no useful purpose—the symptoms and treatment comprising the most essential knowledge for the patient to possess. It may be briefly stated, that the bladder is less subject to become disorganized (the function being chiefly the disordered symptom), and sooner even regains its tone than other organs not less important to life. [4] Colles, Wallace, Ricord, of the Venereal hospital, Paris. [5] _Mercury._ The preparations of mercury are various: but those chiefly employed in the treatment of syphilis are the oxymuriate, or bi-chloride, the submuriate, or chloride, the red precipitate, or the hydrargyri nitrico-oxydum, the blue pill, the red sulphate for fumigations, and the blue ointment.