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BOTANIC PHYSICIAN. 
. und oil, previously melted together, add the cantharides, care- - 
stirring the whole until cool. 
+ Blistering plasters prove highly disagreeable to some people, by 
occasioning strangury. Asa subStitute plaster, a small quantity of 
blistering boy, may be mixed with the Burgundy pitch plaster, and 
laid over the part affected, suffering it to remain as long as it will 
‘stick. This will act for many days, and seldom fails to remove pain, 
ht obstructions, - : —— | 
Me ne Plaster.—Melt an ounce of adhesive plaster, and. while 
‘it is cooling mix with it a drachm of powdered opium, and the same 
quantity of camphor, previously rubbed up with a little oil. 
This plaster will generally give ease in pain, especially of the ner- 
vous kind, : 
~ Compound Burgundy Pitch Plaster.—Take of Burgundy pitch 
: _ two pounds ; gum labdanum, one pound ; yellow resin and yellow wax, 
four ounces ; and oil of mace, one ounce. To the pitch, resin 
melted together, add first the labdanum, and then the oil of 
alone, worn continually upon the. 
reas ades, will be of more benefit in the 
uis plaster, or Burgundy pitch 
7» 0 pe veen the sho nide 
long continued winter coughs, than all other remedies. 
Gum. Plaster.—Take of the common plaster, four pounds ; gum 
_ ammoniac and galbanum, strained, of each half a pound. Melt to- 
gether, and add, of Venice turpentine, six ounces. : 
pony. plaster is used -as a digestive, and likewise for discussing in- 
ent tumors. a 
. 
; Stomach Plaster.—Take of gum plaster, half a pound ; campho- 
rated oil, an ounce and a half; Cayenne pepper, one ounce. Melt 
he plaster and mix it with the oil ; then sprinkle in the pepper, pre- 
An ounce or two of this plasier, spread upon soft leather, and ap- 
plied to the region of the stomach, will be of sérvice in flatulencies 
arising from hysteric and hypochondriac affections. 
Warm. Plaster.—Take of gum plaster, one ounce; blistering 
plaster, two drachms. Melt them together over a gentle fire. 
' _ This plaster is useful in the sciatica and other fixed pains of the 
leumatic kind: it ought to be worn some time, and renewed twice 
‘Sweek. sr ; bd 
4 Iron Strengthening Plaster.—Take of the common plaster, twen- : 
four parts ; pine resin, six parts ; yellow wax, and olive oil, each 
three parts ; red oxyde of iron, eight parts. Rub the red oxyde of iron 
with the oil ;.then add'the other ingredients, previously melted toge- 
This plaster, spread on leather, is used’as a common stren, heni 
laster in weakness of the large muscles, as of the loins, ~ = 
