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rub them well together, until the salt is reduced to a 

 powder ; then add half a pint of vinegar, two ounces of 

 brandy, and one quart of water. Bathe the parts fre- 

 quently with this. It is good for cattle, horses, and 

 men, when the skin is not broken. Fomentation with 

 hot water should precede the application. Bay salt is 

 made naturally in the bays of St. Ubes, at high tides in 

 spring and fall. It is the purest and best for medical 

 and culinary purposes, containing 960 parts of chloride 

 of sodium in 1000. 



A Stronger Embrocation for deeply-seated strains. 

 Spirits of turpentine, half a pint ; oil of origanum, half 

 an ounce ; olive oil, a pint and a half ; cantharides, one 

 ounce. Mix together ; shake often ; keep in a bottle. 

 Rub it in, morning and night. This is not intended to 

 blister, and should it produce redness and tenderness, 

 reduce it by adding olive oil. 



Hheuaiatic Embrocation. Neat's foot oil, four ounces ; 

 camphorated oil, spirits of turpentine, and laudanum, 

 one ounce each ; oil of origanum, one drachm. Mix. 



Camphorated Oil, or Stimu^lating Embrocation. 

 Camphor broken into small pieces, two ounces; olive 

 oil, or spermaceti, one pint. Put them into a bottle ; 

 cork tight ; set it in a warm place, and shake it daily, 

 until the camphor is dissolved. This is good for stiff- 

 ness and swelling of the joints, rheumatism, &c. 



Cooling Ointment. Melt lard five or six times, and 

 cool, by pouring each time into a fresh pailful of water. 

 Then simmer it with sliced onions, and it will make an 

 excellent cooling salve, almost infallible for inflamma- 

 tions from taking colds in wounds. 



Blistering Ointment. One part of cantharides, 

 (Spanish flies,) finely powdered; three of lard, and one 

 of yellow rosin. Melt the lard and rosin together, and 

 add the flies when the other ingredients begin to cool. 

 To make it more active, add one pint of spirits of tur 

 pentine. 



Another. Yellow basilicon, one ounce ; powdered 

 cantharides, three drachms ; spirits of turpentine, two 

 drachms. This is applied to setons, to cause a more 

 speedy operation, and a more powerful effect. 



Another. Melt together four ounces palm oil, and 



