573 
An ointment of tar is direded in both Pharmacopoeias, which has 
been chiefly employed in cutaneous diforders. Dr. Cullen lays, 
I 
have met with an emperical practice with refped to tar of a lingular 
kind. A leg of mutton is laid to roaft ; and whilft it continues 
roafting, it is balled with tar inftead of butter. Whilft the roafting 
goes on, a iharp Ikewer is frequently thruft into the fubltance of the 
mutton, to give occafion to the running out of the gravy ; and with 
the mixture of the tar and gravy to be found in the dripping-pan, 
the body is to be anointed all over for three or four nights fuccemvely ; 
whilft for the fame time the fame body-linen is to be worn. This is 
alleged to be a remedy in feveral cafes of lepra ; and I have had one 
inftance of its being employed in a lepra idhyofis with great fuccefs : 
but for reafons readily to be apprehended, I have not had opportu- 
nities of repeating the pradice. 
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354 
Park. Tbeat. p. 1538 
Abies mas Theophrafti. Rati Hift. p. 1 
es. Hud fon. Flor. Ang. ed. 1. p. 36 
Synop. p. 44 
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