AMERICAN  SCHAMPOO-FLUID  FOR  PRO-
MOTING THE  GROWTH  OF  THE  HAIR.
Spirit  of  wine  and  rum,  with  some  carbonate
of  ammonia  and  potash.
AMERICAN  DROPS  FOR  TOOTHACHE
(Majewsky,  Warsaw)  have  been  found  of
various  composition.  Some  which  profess  to
have  taken  a  prize  at  the  Vienna  Exhibition
were  composed  of  French  brandy,  containing
common  salt,  and  coloured  with  cochineal.  The
first  was  a  spirituous  solution  of  an  ethereal  oil
with  some  oil  of  cloves,  coloured  rather  rod-
dish  ;  No.  2  was  a  similar  solution  with  some
oil  of  peppermint  and  tincture  of  rhatany ;  and
No.  3  was  merely  a  diluted  solution  of  No.  2.
(Hager.)

AMERICAN  UNIVERSAL  BLOOD-PURIFY-
ING HERB  TEA  (Dr  Kuhr),  foi  women's  dis-
,  e.ises,  hysteria,  nervous  debility,  epilepsy,
stomachic  complaints,  asthma,  haemorrhoids,
gout,  rheumatism,  worms,  and  much  besides.
White  horehound,  marsh  mallow,  liquorice
wood,  and  sassafras,  of  each,  10  parts  j  anise,
oriauder  and  fennel,  of  each,  5  parts;  red


poppy  petals,  4  parts;  lavender  flowers,  2
parts;  senna,  peppermint,  millefoil  flowers,
and  valerian  root,  of  each,  1  part.  (Kuhr
and  Selle.)

AM'ETHYST  (-thist).  Syn.  PuEPLE  SOCK-
OBTSTAL  ;  Amethtste,  Fr.  J  Ambihxs'tus,  L.
A  beautiful  sub-species  of  quartz  or  rock  cry-
stal, of  a  violet- blue  colour  of  varying  inten-
sity,  in  great  request  for  cutting  into  seals,
brooches,  and  other  like  articles  of  ornament.
It  was  known  and  prized  in  the  earliest  ages
of  antiquity.  Among  the  ancients,  cups  and
vases  were  made  out  of  this  mineral ;  and  it
was  an  opinion  of  the  Greeks  and  Persians,
that  an  amethyst  bound  on  the  navel  would
counteract  the  effects  of  wine,  and  that  wine
drank  out  of  an  amethystine  vessel  would  not
intoxicate.    See  Gems.
Amethyst.  In  cAromation,  dyeing,  &c.,  a
rich  variety  of  deep  violet  colour.  Hence,
AMETHTST'INE  (iin),  &C.
