Ointment, Liniment and Cerate
| Camphorated Oil. | 1785 |
Rub an ounce of camphor, with two ounces of Florence oil, in a mortar, till the camphor be entirely dissolved.
| Emollient Ointment. | 1785 |
Take of palm oil, two pounds; olive oil, a pint and a half; yellow wax, half a pound; Venice turpentine, a quarter of a pound. Melt the wax in the oils over a gentle fire; then mix in the turpentine, ...
| Eye Ointments. | 1785 |
Take of hogs' lard prepared, four ounces; white wax, two drachms; tutty prepared, one ounce; melt the wax with the lard over a gentle fire, and then sprinkle in the tutty, continually stirring them ti...
| Issue Ointment. | 1785 |
Mix half an ounce of Spanish flies, finely powered, in six ounces of yellow basilicum ointment.
| Liniment for Burns. | 1785 |
Take equal parts of Florence oil, or of fresh drawn linseed oil, and lime-water; shake them well together in a wide mouthed bottle, so as to form a liniment.
| Liniment for the Piles. | 1785 |
Take of emollient ointment, two ounces; liquid laudanum, half an ounce. Mix these ingredients with the yolk of an egg, and work them well together.
| Mercurial Ointment. | 1785 |
Take of quicksilver, two ounces; hogs' lard, three ounces; mutton suet, one ounce. Rub the quicksilver with an ounce of the hogs's lard in a warm mortar, till the globules be perfectly extinguished; t...
| Ointment of Calamine. | 1785 |
Take of olive oil, a pint and a half; white wax, and calamine stone, levigated, of each half a pound. Let the calamine stone, reduced into a fine powder, be rubbed with some part of the oil, and after...
| Ointment of Lead. | 1785 |
Take of olive oil, half a pint; white wax, two ounces; sugar of lead, three drachms. Let the sugar of lead, reduced into a fine powder, be rubbed up with some part of the oil, and afterwards added to ...
| Ointment of Sulphur. | 1785 |
Take of hogs' lard prepared, four ounces; flowers of sulphur, an ounce and a half; crude sal ammoniac, two drachms; essence of lemon, ten or twelve drops. Make them into an ointment.
| Volatile Liniment. | 1785 |
Take of florence oil, an ounce; spirit of hartshorn, half an ounce. Shake them together.
| White Liniment. | 1785 |
This is made in the same manner as the white ointment, two thirds of the wax being left out.
| White Ointment. | 1785 |
Take of olive oil, one pint; white wax and sperma ceti, of each three ounces. Melt them with a gentle heat, and keep them constantly and briskly stirring together, till quite cold.
| Yellow Basilicum Ointment. | 1785 |
Take of yellow wax, white resin, and frankincense, each a quarter of a pound; melt them together over a gentle fire; then add, of hogs' lard prepared, one pound. Strain the ointment while warm.
Pill
| Composing Pill. | 1785 |
Take of purified opium, ten grains; Castile soap, half a drachm. Beat them together, and form the whole into twenty pills.
| Foetid Pill. | 1785 |
Take of asafoetida, half an ounce; simple syrup, as much as is necessary to form it into pills.
| Hemlock Pill. | 1785 |
Take any quantity of the extract of hemlock, and adding to it about a fifth part its weight of the powder of the dried leaves, form it into pills.
| Mercurial Pill. | 1785 |
Take of purified quicksilver and honey, each half an ounce. Rub them together in a mortar, till the globules of mercury are perfectly extinguished; then add, of Castile soap, two drachms, powdered liq...
| Mercurial sublimate Pill. | 1785 |
Dissolve fifteen grains of the corrosive sublimate of mercury in two drachms of the saturated solution of crude sal ammoniac, and make it into a paste, in a glass mortar, with a sufficient quantity of...
| Pills for the Jaundice. | 1785 |
Take of Castile soap, succotorine aloes, and rhubarb, of each one drachm. Make them into pills with a sufficient quantity of syrup or mucilage.
| Plummer's Pill. | 1785 |
Take of calomel, or sweet mercury, and precipitated sulphur of antimony, each three drachms; extract of liquorice, two drachms. Rub the sulphur and mercury well together; afterwards add the extract, a...
| Purging Pills. | 1785 |
Take of succotorine aloes, and Castile soap, each two drachms; of simple syrup, a sufficient quantity to make them into pills.
| Squill Pills. | 1785 |
Take powder of dried squills, a drachm and a half; gum ammoniac, and cardamom seeds, in powder, of each three drachms; simple syrup, a sufficient quantity.
| Stomachic Pills. | 1785 |
Take extract of gentian, two drachms; powdered rhubarb and vitriolated tartar, of each one drachm; oil of mint, thirty drops; simple syrup, a sufficient quantity.
| Strengthening Pill. | 1785 |
Take soft extract of the bark, and salt of steel, each half an ounce. Make into pills.