NITRE LOZENGES.

Take of nitre, purified, 3 oz.

double-refined sugar, 9 oz.

Make them into lozenges with mucilage of gum tragacanth.

This is a very agreeable form for the exhibition of nitre,

as a _diuretic or febrifuge_, though, when the salt is thus

taken, without any liquid (if the quantity be considerable),

it is apt to occasion uneasiness about the stomach, which can

only be prevented by a large dilution with aqueous liquors.