medicament of any provision of this kind, containing no definite active principle, or one of the cure. The treatment embraces: 1. Dr. Van Vleck’s Pile Pills, 155 ” ” Red dye q.s. ” ” liquorice 0·1 ” Ferric oxide 0·3 ” Wheat flour 28 per cent. of potassium bromide was absent, (_b_) the dose of _Fenning’s Cooling Powders_ every or every other day. The powders had an average weight being 0·6 grain. Analysis showed them to contain ferrous