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water, one ounce; mix, and apply with a camel's hair 

 pencil once in the day. 



Soothing Eye-wash. — Take extract of belladonna, 

 half a drachm ; rain-water or distilled water, six ounces 

 dissolve and strain. This is to be used warm, as a fomen- 

 tation to the eye. 



Mild Astringent Eye-water. — Alum, four grains 

 rain-water, one ounce ; mix. 



Sedative Eye-wash. — Take sulphate of atropine 

 three grains ; rain or distilled water, one ounce ; mix 

 and strain. The reader of this book will remember that 

 belladonna, or atropine, when applied to the eye, will cause 

 the pupil of the eye to dilate. 



Eye Salves. — Nitrate of Silver Oint^fent. — 

 Take nitrate of silver, twelve grains ; dissolve in as many 

 drops of water; simple cerate, one ounce; mix. 



Precipitate Oint^eent. — Take red precipitate of 

 mercury, three grains ; pure lard, two drachms ; mix, and 

 use when the eyelids are red and oozing. 



Freezing Mixtures. — Take sal ammoniac, five parts ; 

 nitre, five parts ; cold water, sixteen parts ; mix. Or, take 

 sal ammoniac, and nitre, of each five parts ; Glauber's salts, 

 eight parts; cold water, sixteen parts; mix. The article 

 to be cooled should be placed in a tin vessel, which should 

 be put in the mixture just as a butter kettle would be 

 placed in ice water. By throwing a handful of sal ammo- 

 niac, or coarse salt or nitre, upon ice or snow, a low degree 

 of cold will be produced, sufficient for all purposes. 

 Freezing mixtures are of much benefit applied to sprains, 

 when ice cannot be had. 



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