S60 USE OF IMERCURIAL OINTMENT. 



(RECIPE, No. 185.) 

 Mercurial Ointment. 



Take — Quicksilver, half a pound ; Venice turpentine, 



four ounces; 

 Spirit of turpentine, one ounce ; 

 Put them in a marble mortar, and rub them 



together till the globules entirely disappear; 



then add 

 Hog's lard, one pound and a half; 

 Bees' wax, four ounces : melt the wax and lard 



together, and add them to the former. 

 Let them be well stirred together until cold. 



Or the following 



(RECIPE, No. 186.) 



Take — Quicksilver, one pound ; 



Strained turpentine, four ounces ; 

 Oil of turpentine, two ounces ; 

 Hog's lard, five pounds : 



Triturate the quicksilver with the turpentines 

 in a marble mortar for three or four hours; 

 • then add the lard, previously melted, and stir 

 till cold. 



This is a very useful ointment for innkeepers, 

 and persons who keep horses to run post ; it ought 

 always to be kept ready prepared, as it requires a 

 person to work at it for nearly a whole day before 

 the silver is properly incorporated. It will be found 



