Grey Powder 6 grains. Rhubarb 2 grains. Scammony 9 grains. Mix well, and divide into three powders. When the relaxation has been stopped, it is always advisable to take an aperient pill, in a day or two after, to restore the bowels to a healthy condition. In many simple cases of bowel complaint, a dose of castor oil is the only remedy required, and where resulting from improper food, by its aperient action it both removes the cause and the effect with it. The bowel complaint, or diarrhœa, that occurs as a critical symptom in fever, is on no account to be hastily or injudiciously checked; but when calling for treatment, the mixture No. 4 is the most advisable one to employ for that purpose. FLATULENCE. Unless in exceptional cases, such as from ill-cooked food, an excess of vegetable diet, &c., flatulence is always an indication of impaired functional action of the stomach, either proceeding from a disease of that organ or through sympathy with some other part; but by far the greater number of those who suffer from flatulence owe it to a weakened state of the stomach itself, often hereditary, frequently the result of an erroneous dietary, and sometimes from the injudicious habit of over-stimulating; besides these cases, it frequently proceeds from mental anxiety, imperfect mastication of the food, and a close sedentary habit. Flatulence is often completely cured by strict attention to dietetic rules, such as avoiding for a time all vegetables and fruits, making the breakfast and tea on hard crusts, biscuits, or dry toast, and _chewing_ these for a considerable time before _permitting_ the food to pass into the _stomach_; at the same time taking as small a quantity of fluid in the way of tea, coffee, or cocoa, as possible, and only sufficient to facilitate the descent of the solid food; meat and bread for dinner, with a sparing draught of cold gin and water, should constitute the meal. The tea should be a repetition of the breakfast, and a supper of biscuit and cheese with a small tumbler of cold spirits and water, the same as that for dinner; a system like this, with exercise, repose on a sofa for half an hour after each meal, and using the _flesh-brush_ night and morning _over the chest and shoulders_, and especially across the stomach, so as to excite the organ to increased action, will be found to yield the fullest advantage, and in many cases will supersede the necessity of any medicine whatever. When, however, there is much acidity in the stomach, it should be neutralized by a tea-spoonful of magnesia, or half a drachm of carbonate of soda, a short time before any one of the meals, and, when the bowels require it, a compound assafœtida pill at bed-time; the same regimen as to diet being persevered in, as that above. Where the stomach has become seriously enfeebled by a long-continued state of flatulence,