The paste was a pink ointment, containing 93 per cent. of a fatty basis, 4·8 per cent. of a substance which agreed in its characters with dried bile, and was evidently ordinary “purified ox-bile,” and a little carmine, the remainder being moisture. Further examination of the fatty basis showed a considerable proportion of beeswax, and the analytical results obtained agreed with a mixture of: Beeswax 23 parts. Lard 46 ” Rapeseed (colza) oil 31 ” It is not possible, however, to assign an exact formula to a mixture of fatty substances like this. The composition of the paste was approximately: Purified ox-bile 5 per cent. Beeswax 22 ” Lard 44 ” Oil 29 ” Carmine q.s. A trace of perfume was also present. The estimated cost of ingredients (2 ounces) is 3d. The tablets are sold in boxes, containing 25, price, 2s. The directions were: Two at night dissolved in the mouth as an ordinary lozenge. The tablets were flat oval lozenges weighing 19 grains each. Analysis showed their composition to be as follows:— Sulphur 24 per cent. Ginger, about 4 ” Sugar 61 ” Acacia gum 8 ” Moisture 3 ” The estimated cost of the ingredients for 25 lozenges is ½d. XL REDUCING PILLS AND REDUCING LOTION. Hughes & Hughes’s XL Reducing Pills and Ointment are advertised from an address in a seaside town. The pills are sold in boxes containing 28, price 2s. 9d. a box. The preparation was described, in a circular enclosed with the box, as: A remedy at once safe, speedy, and efficacious, and of marked value from the health point of view, as it combats the special ills to which the corpulent have a liability. It is very easy to take, the pills being tasteless, and does not necessarily oblige any special course of diet. The directions were: 2 pills, twice a day, after principal meals. The pills were coated with French chalk, and coloured pink on the outside. After removal of the coating they had an average weight of 3 grains. Analysis showed them to contain a vegetable extract, powdered ginger, powdered liquorice, iron, potassium, phosphate, and iodide; in addition to the mineral constituents just named, the ash showed all the constituents of the ash of extract of bladderwrack; various other tests applied to the pills indicated this extract to be present, and failed to show any other ingredients. The quantities of the respective substances were determined as accurately as possible, and the formula found to be approximately: Potassium iodide 0·15 grain. Iron phosphate 0·35 ” Powdered ginger 0·2 ” ” liquorice 0·1 ” Extract of _Fucus vesiculosus_ 2·2 grains. In one pill.