Preparations of them.--The following directions are of the utmost
value in connection with the DOMESTIC PHARMACOPOEIA, DISEASES,
PRESCRIPTIONS, and POISONS.
_They will be found most important to emigrants, attendants upon the
sick, and persons who reside out of the reach of medical aid, sailors,
&c., &c. They contain instructions not only for the compounding of
medicines, but most useful hints and cautions upon the application of
leeches, blisters, poultices, &c._