This fruit very much resembles the nature of prunes, but is more acid, and enters as a useful ingredient into the lenitive electuary. It is found of the highest use in a sore throat, as a powerful cleanser; and, put into boiling water until moderately cold, is a delightful drink to persons parched under the heat of fever, and in the lowest state of putrid fever. WATER-CRESSES. Water-cresses act as a gentle stimulant and diuretic; for these purposes the expressed juice, which contains the peculiar taste and pungency of the herb, may be taken in doses of an ounce or two, and continued for a considerable time. It should be at the same time eaten at breakfast, also at dinner, and for supper, to experience benefit from the virtues of this herb. WHITE COUGH MIXTURE. Mix 1 dram of powdered spermaceti with the yolks of 2 eggs; then add 1 dram of tincture of opium, and 5 oz., of water. To be taken in the quantity of a wine-glassful when the cough is troublesome. FOR ALLAYING COUGH IN THE NIGHT, AND PROCURING REST. Mix together a dessert spoonful of syrup of poppies, and 15 drops of antimonial wine. To be taken at a draught, with or without a little warm water, either at bed-time, or in the middle of the night. Half this quantity may be given to a child under the same circumstances. _Another._ Mix together in a wine-glass, 30 drops of laudanum, 4 tea-spoonsful of vinegar, and 6 tea-spoonsful of water, sweetened with a little lump sugar. ALMOND MILK. Take of sweet almonds, blanched, 1½ oz. double-refined sugar, ¾ oz. distilled water, 2½ pints. Beat the almonds with the sugar; then rubbing them together, add by degrees the water, and strain the liquor. Almost any quantity may be taken as a frequent drink to soften coughs, and to assuage urinary disorders. MUCILAGE OF GUM ARABIC. Take of gum-arabic, in powder, 4 oz. boiling water, 8 oz. Triturate the gum with a small portion of the water until it be dissolved. It is necessary to pass the mucilage through linen, in order to free it from pieces of wood and other impurities, which always adhere to the gum: the linen may be placed in a funnel. Mucilage of gum-arabic is very useful in making up medicines, &c. it also possesses the powers of a _mucilaginous demulcent_ in a high degree; and is frequently given in _diarrhœa_, _dysentery_, _chin-cough_, _hoarseness_, _strangury_, _&c._ GUM-ARABIC EMULSION. Take of gum-arabic, in powder, 2 drams, sweet almonds, blanched, double refined sugar, each ½ dram, decoction of barley, 1 pint. Dissolve the gum in the warm decoction; and when it is almost cold, pour it upon the almonds, previously well beaten with the sugar, and at the same time triturate them together, so as to form an emulsion, and then filter.