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made in the following manner : Take of fragrant sesamiim oil, 

 sixteen ounces ; peach twigs, willow twigs, Sophora japonica 

 twigs, mulberry twigs, cinnamon twigs, and Allium fistulosum, 

 of each one ounce ; male hair (?, ^ ^), four ounces ; Zan- 

 thoxylum bungei, half an ounce; castor oil bean, two ounces ; 

 Strychnos nux vomica (? ^ ||^), four ounces ; Chavica rox- 

 burghii, half an ounce ; and Angelica anomala, two ounces. 

 Soak the drugs in the oil in the winter seven days, in the 

 summer three days, and in the spring or autumn five days. 

 Then boil until the drugs are withered and dry, when the oil 

 should be drained off and boiled until it is reduced to eight- 

 tenths of its volume. It is then ready for use. 



Baroos Camphor Plaster; ^ ^ ^ |^ (Ping-p'ien-kao- 

 yao). This is an expensive warm plaster, at present in much 

 repute among the Chinese. Its composition is not given in 

 the books. 



Dissolving Abscesses Plaster ; \^ -^ ^ (Hsiao-chii-kao). 

 This is made by crushing nine kernels of the castor oil bean, 

 and beating up with this three-tenths of an ounce each of pine 

 resin, white lead, and finely powdered Luan tea leaves. If it 

 is too dry, a little sesamum oil is added, and it is then spread 

 on a piece of cloth, applied to the abscess and the whole covered 

 with a layer of cotton paper. It is said to heal in seven days. 



Four Perfection Plaster or Ointment ; Q ^ :f3* (Ssu-sheng- 

 tan). Incinerate forty-nine peas, three-hundredths of an ounce 

 of hair, and fourteen real pearls. Beat up the ash with oily 

 cosmetic to a paste. This is for vicious smallpox eruption in 

 children, in those cases in which eight or nine out of ten die. 

 Use a hair-pin and press out the bad blood ; and then apply a 

 little of the paste to the sore, when it will turn red and healthy 

 in appearance. 



Healing Ringworm Plaster ; ^ ^ % — ^ J5*(Chih- 

 hsien-ti-i-ling-tan). Crush to a pulp three-hundred day lilies 

 (Funkia subcordata), and add cloves, six ounces ; lign aloes, 

 four ounces ; Baroos camphor and musk, of each three-tenths 

 of an ounce ; pulverized city wall brick from Shansi, twelve 

 ounces. Boil all in three and a half catties of sesamum oil. 

 Mix with charcoal dust, and drop into water to form pellets. 

 Place in a porcelaiu jar and seal with yellow wax, and then 



