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| This healing balsam is applied externally to heal recent wounds or 
bruises, and for that purpose is second to none. It is likewise em- 
Ployed internally to remove coughs, asthmas, and other complaints 
of the breast. It is said to ease the colic, cleanse the kidneys, and 
heal internal ulcers, &c._ ‘The dose is from twenty to. thirty. drops. 
An abridgment of Turlington’s balsam, and which perhaps answers 
all its purposes, is made by taking of Benzoin, three ounces ; balsam 
of Peru, two ounces ; hepatic aloes, half an ounce ; rectified spirits 
ced two pints. Digest with a gentle heat three days, and strain. 
i ions have, been celebrated under the different 
, balsam of Berne, Friar’s balsam, Je- 
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suit’s drops, &c. 
_ Balsam of Honey.—Take gum benzoin, one drachm; balsam 
- Tolu, two drachms ; saffron, eee ; honey, four ounces ; alco- 
hol, apint. Digest. Dose, one drachm three timesaday. This is 
very useful in cough. . : 
etable balsam.—A pound of sugar candy, dissolved 
intity of white wine vinegar, and then ev porated 
of a pint ; during which operation, as much garlic as 
ible is dissolved with it. 
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Carapiasms, &c. 
~ Discutient cataplasm.—Take of barley meal six ounces ; fresh 
hemlock or cicuta leaves, two ounces ; vinegar, a sufficient quantity 
Boil the meal and cicuta in the vinegar, and then add two ¢ 
sugar of lead. : 
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: Ripening Cataplasm.—Take of white lilly root, four ounces fat 
figs and_raw onions, bruised, of each one ounce; yellow basilicum ~ 
ointment, two ounces ; gum galbanum, half an ounce ; linseed meal 
as much as necessary. . Boil the roots and figs in water ; then bruise 
and add to them the other ingredients, so as to form the whole into 
-a soft cataplasm. ‘Che galbanum must be dissolved previously with 
‘the yolk of an egg. ui oe Sed x: 
Another, perhaps equally efficacious, and less expensive, is, a 
poultice of bread and milk, witha sufficient quantity of either boiled 
or raw onions in it, and softened with oil of fresh butter. 
~*_ Sinapisms.—Sinapisms are employed to recal the blood and spi- 
- kits to a part, as in the palsy and atrophy ; they are also applied to the 
feet in low fevers. The sinapism is only a poultice made with vine- 
gar instead of. milk, and rendered warm and stimulating by the ad- 
dition of mustard, horse radish, or garlic. ta: meee 
© Emollient Clyster-—Take of linseed tea and new milk, each six 
