530 ON GREASE. 



powder, three drachms. Or. Black fnails, 

 burdock-root, yellow foap, honey, and fugar of 

 lead ; beat well, and mix thoroughly. For an 

 occafional emollient wafh, warm fldm-milk and 

 water, with a little aqua-vegeto. When from 

 the inveterate foulnefs of the ulcers, the moft 

 powerful reftringents and deficcatives are de- 

 manded, the following forms are proper. A 

 DRYING Water. White vitriol and burnt 

 allum, two ounces each ; ^gyptiacum, one 

 ounce ; lime-water, two or three pints ; wafli 

 two or three times a day. Or. Diflblve half 

 an ounce of Roman vitriol in one pint of water, 

 decant into a quart bottle, adding half a pint of 

 fpirits doubly camphorated, fame quantity of 

 diflilled vinegar, and two ounces asgyptiacum. 

 Or. The following drying unguents. Honey, 

 four ounces ; white or red lead, powdered, two 

 ounces ; verdigreafe in fine powder, one ounce. 

 Or, orpiment, one ounce ; verdigreafe, three 

 ounces ; foot, five ounces ; honey, one pound; 

 foft foap, and a fmall quantity of unflacked 

 lime; mix thoroughly over a flow fire, and ufe 

 once a day. The objeftions of St. Bel and 

 others to the ufe of flrong reftringents and de- 

 ficcatives, from the danger of a retropulfion of 

 the morbid humour, muft be underftood as ap- 

 plicable only to the earlier ftages of the difeafp, 

 and the pra6lice of common farriers, who are 

 in the habit of an exclufive exhibition of thofe, 



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