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Repellent and Restringent. DifTolve 

 alum in vinegar, or verjuice, add half the 

 quantity of oil, with red wine lees, or ftale 

 beer grounds, and bean meal. Or. Old ver- 

 juice or diftilled vinegar, one quart; alum, 

 one ounce; currier's (havings, or oak-bark, 

 boil to a poultice, with or without faturmne 

 ointment, and apply warm twice a day. 



Unguents, Emollient and Sup'pura- 

 TiVE. Elder ointment. Or. Neat's-foot oil, 

 three pints ; yellow wax, nine ounces ; yellow 

 rdfin, half a pound; turpentine, two ounces; 

 ground ginger, two ounces. Melt the rofm 

 and wax in the oil, take off the fire, and add 

 the turpentine; ftrain hot, and mix in the 



ffinser. 



Stimulant and Discutient. Flanders 



oil of bays, half a pound ; goofe greafe, four 

 ounces; quickfilver, one ounce; turpentine, 

 one ounce. Mix the quickfilver and turpen- 

 tine thoroughly, then adding the reft, work 

 well half an hour. A quantity of digitalis, or 

 fox glove flowers, fufBcient to impregnate the 

 whole mafs, may be beat up with it, the oint- 

 ment being kept two or three weeks previous 

 to ufe. To diffolve tumours on the glands, or 

 kernels, either in the brute or human fpecies. 



Blistering. Nerve, and ointment of 

 marlhmallows, each two ounces, quickfilver, 

 one ounce, rubbed in a mortar with one 



ounce 



