468.  Ointment for diseases of the skin

Take of citrine ointment 1-1/2 drm., sublimed sulphur 1 drm., lard 3 ozs.; make an ointment.  This is a good application for almost all affections of the skin.

469.  Emollient ointment

Take of palm oil 2 lbs., olive oil 1 pint, turpentine 4 oz., red beeswax 6 ozs.; melt the wax in the oils, and then add the turpentine and strain the ointment.  This is a most excellent application for inflamed parts, &c.

470.  Poke root ointment

Take of poke root 3 ozs., lard 1 lb., boil for a quarter of an hour and strain.  This ointment has quite a reputation in Virginia, with the old ladies, for all kinds of old sores and ulcers, and it is an excellent application to indolent and purulent ulcers and sores.

471.  Ointment for hydrocephalus

Take of iodide of mercury 2 parts, iodide of potassium 3 parts, camphor 2 parts, lard 32 parts; mix and keep well corked.  To be rubbed on the head in hydrocephalus or water on the brain in doses of half a drachm to a drachm.

472.  LINAMENT for burns

Take of olive oil 1 oz., linseed oil 1 oz., lime water 1 oz.; mix well.  This forms an excellent application for recent scalds and burns.

473.  Volatile LINAMENT

Take of olive oil 1 oz., aqua ammonia 1 oz.; mix.  To be applied to bruises, rheumatic parts, &c., and to the neck in inflammation of the throat.

474.  Alkaline cataplasm

Take of lye, rather weak, warm it and stir in of slippery elm bark or flaxseed, or meal sufficient to form a poultice.  This is a most excellent poultice, and should be used more than it is.  It is useful in inflammation of the breast and other parts, felons, wounds, fistula, &c.

475.  Anodyne fomentation

Take of laudanum 4 ozs., water 1 pint; mix.  For painful affections of the joints, as chronic rheumatism, &c., hops dipped in hot vinegar will answer as well.

476.  Common clyster

Take of flaxseed tea or cornmeal gruel, from one to two pints, sweet oil 2 or 3 ounces, common salt one teaspoonful, brown sugar two tablespoonsful; mix.

477.  Anodyne clyster

Take of a solution of starch in water, of jelly, or water half a pint, laudanum forty drops; mix.  The whole to be injected in cases of dysentery, violent purging and pain in the bowels.

478.  Injection for leucorrhoea

Take of sulphate of zinc 10 grs., tinc. of opium 1/2 drm., rose water 4 oz.; mix and dissolve.  To be injected several times a day.

479.  Another

Take of alum 10 grs., rose water 4 oz.; mix and dissolve.  To be used frequently.

480.  Essence of beef