196 GREASE, CROWN-SCAB, &C. 



(RECIPE, No. 147.) 



Take — White ointment, eight ounces ; 



Sugar of lead, and white vitriol, of each half 



an ounce : 

 Mix well together on a marble slab. 



The above dressing must stay on twenty-four 

 hours ; at the end of that time repeat the astrin- 

 gent wash, with fresh pledgets of the ointment as 

 before. Three dressings, with these applications, 

 are, in general, sufficient to cure, though the case 

 be ever so bad. It sometimes may be necessary 

 to poultice the parts for two or three days be- 

 fore the above applications are resorted to, and for 

 this purpose the following will be found suitable. 



(RECIPE, No. 148.) 



Take — Of coarse flour, bread, or bran, a sufficient 

 quantity, and boil it in old milk to a proper 

 consistency; then add, 



Hog's lard, two ounces ; 



Venice turpentine, one ounce ; 



Alum, in fine powder, two ounces: 



Mix them all together, and apply the poultice 

 warm to the part. 



This will be found sufficient to cure the grease 

 in most recent cases. The following ointment 



