74. LIQUORICE LOZENGES.

Take of extract of liquorice,

double refined sugar, each 10 oz.

tragacanth, powdered, 3 oz.

Powder them thoroughly, and make them into lozenges with rose-water.

These are agreeable pectorals, and may be used at pleasure in

tickling coughs. The above receipt is the easiest and best mode of

making these lozenges. Refined extract of liquorice should be used:

and it is easily powdered in the cold, after it has been laid for

some days in a dry and rather warm place.