Aloes 0·7 grain. Jalap resin 0·2 ” Powdered cinchona bark 0·3 ” ” ginger 0·2 ” Oil of cloves Trace. In one pill. CHAPTER VI. REMEDIES FOR GOUT, RHEUMATISM, AND NEURALGIA. The medicines here described vary considerably in their nature, and to some extent in the complaints for which they are recommended, but no definite line can be drawn between them. Some are primarily for gout, but are recommended also for rheumatism; others are mainly for rheumatism, but are also recommended for gout and neuralgia; while others, again, are chiefly advertised for neuralgia and headache. BLAIR’S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS. These pills, which are a British product, are sold in boxes, price 1s. 1½d., and containing 14 pills. They were described in a circular accompanying the box as: The great and universal remedy for the immediate relief and cure of Acute and Chronic Gout, Rheumatism, Suppressed Gout, Rheumatic Gout, Gouty Skin Diseases, Bronchitis and Asthma, Sciatica, Lumbago, and Neuralgia, and as a preventive or prophylactic where the disease has a tendency to recur, or attacking any vital part, as the Stomach, Brain, or Heart. Other extracts from this circular are: In all cases of Gout, no matter of what length of standing, they not only give relief from the almost intolerable pain, but where the patient has kept his bed for months, _One Box will frequently carry off the attack_ in two or three days—in many cases of extreme torture relief has been obtained in two or three hours ... in those gouty skin affections, Psoriasis and Eczema, these Pills have no equal. Blair’s Gout and Rheumatic Pills are not only efficacious in curing Gout, but in all those diseases allied to it. They never fail. They always cure. Directions and Doses. For Gout and Rheumatic Gout.—Take two Pills three times a day, just after meals, and when it is very severe, take two during the night, and they should be persisted in until the swelling and stiffness have disappeared. In cases of long standing, where the tendency of the disease is to recur, it is advisable to take a short course of the Pills as a preventive. Dose.—Two twice a day for a fortnight.