WOUNDS IN VARIOUS PARTS. I6l 



(RECIPE, No. 122.) 

 Caustic Oils. 



Take — Blistering ointment (No. 113, p. 151), one ounce ; 

 Digestive oils (No. 119, p. 157), two ounces; 

 Mix well together; then add, by degrees, 

 Oil of vitriol, half an ounce by weight; and, 



lastly, add 

 Oil of turpentine, one ounce : 

 And mix well. 



Let the wound be well dressed with this mix- 

 ture ; and afterwards take four ounces of the 

 digestive ointment (No. 118, p. 157), and two 

 drachms of cantharides, in powder ; melt the oint- 

 ment, and mix in the cantharides, and pour them 

 warm into the wound : then foment the part with 

 the following 



(RECIPE, No. 123.) 



Fomentation. 



Take — Camomile flowers, half a pound ; 



Poppy heads, twelve in number ; bruise them ; 

 Three gallons of ale dregs, or water : 

 Boil them, and foment the part with hot flannels 

 wrung out of it. 



After the part has been properly fomented, the 

 following bhstering oils may be well rubbed in on 

 the part affected. 



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