APP. — GREEN OINTMENT, &C. 28l 



GREEN OINTMENT. 



Take — Elder leaves, five handfuls; 



Wormwood, and plantain leaves, of each four 



handfuls ; 

 Cut them small, and bruise them in a mortar; 

 Then boil them in twelve pounds of hogs' lard, 



over a slow fire : 

 Stir them continually until the leaves grow 



crisp ; then strain, and press out the ointment 



for use. 



This ointment is very cooling and softening, 

 and excellent for all kinds of tumors, or swellings, 

 about wounds. See (No, 41, p. 66), (No. 65, 

 p. 92), (No. 69, p. 96), (No. 176, p. 247), 

 and in various other parts of this work. 



MARSH MALLOWS OINTMENT. 



Take— Linseed oil, and common salad oil, of each a 



pint and a half; 

 Bees' wax, one pound ; 

 Yellow resin, half a pound ; 

 Common turpentine, two ounces : 

 Melt them altogether over a slow fire; 

 When dissolved, strain it, and put the whole 



in a pot for use. 



This, like elder ointment, is useful for all kinds 

 of morbid sweelings, and is frequently prescribed, 

 or mixed, with other articles of the same nature 

 in many of the recipes in this treatise. 



