The almonds are blanched by infusing them in boiling water, and peeling them. The success of the preparation depends upon beating the almonds to a smooth pulp, and triturating them with each portion of the watery fluid, so as to form an uniform mixture before another portion be added. DECOCTION OF MARSHMALLOWS Take of marshmallow roots, bruised, 4 oz. sun raisins, stoned, 2 oz. water, 7 pints. Boil down to five pints; strain the decoction, and after the grounds have subsided, pour off the clear liquor. Marshmallow roots contain nothing soluble in water except mucilage, which is very abundant in them. This decoction is therefore to be considered merely as an _emollient_, rendered more pleasant by the acidulous sweetness of the raisins. COMPOUND ALOETIC PILLS. Take of hepatic aloes, 1 oz. ginger powder, 1 dram, soap, ½ oz. essential oil of peppermint, ½ a dram. Let the aloes and ginger be rubbed well together, then add the soap and the oil so as to form a mass. These pills may be advantageously used for obviating the _habitual costiveness_ of sedentary persons. The dose is from 10 to 15 grains. LADY WEBSTER’S ANTIBILIOUS PILLS. Take of socotrine aloes, 6 drams, gum mastic, 2 drams. Reduce to powder separately; make into a mass with syrup of wormwood, and divide into one hundred pills, of which take one every night. COMPOUND SOAP LINIMENT. Take of camphor, 1 oz. soap, 3 oz. spirit of rosemary, 1 pint. Digest the soap in the spirit of rosemary until it be dissolved, and add to it the camphor. STEER’S OPODELDOC. Dissolve 2 lbs. of white soap, and 1 lb. of yellow ditto, in 3 pints of water. Now dissolve 4 oz. of camphor, 1 oz. of oil of rosemary, and 6 drams of oil of origanum, in 3 pints of spirit of wine. Mix both solutions, and then add 3 oz. of water of ammonia. This liniment is extensively used to allay the inflammation of _bruises_, _sprains_, &c. CAJEPUT OPODELDOC. Take of almond soap, 2 ounces, alcohol, 1 pint, camphor, 1 ounce, cajeput oil, 2 ounces. First dissolve the soap and camphor in the alcohol, and when the solution is about to congeal, or becomes nearly cold, add the oil of cajeput: shake them well together, and put it into bottles to congeal. This composition is a great improvement on the opodeldocs in general use, and in cases of _rheumatism, paralytic numbness, chilblains, enlargement of joints, and indolent tumours_; where the object is to rouse the action of absorbent vessels, and to stimulate the nerves, it is a very valuable external remedy. LINIMENT OF AMMONIA. Take of water of ammonia, ½ an ounce, olive oil, 1½ ounces. Shake them together in a phial till they are mixed.