Cache-Control: public, max-age=1024000 Domestic Medicine Index: Ointments to Pills

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.