530 APPENDIX. 



FOR RHEUMATIC PAINS, OR THE LUMBAGO. 



Dissolve as much salt in water as will make it swim an egg, 

 rub it in with your hand on the part afflicted before a fire, for 15 

 or 20 minutes, just before going to bed. It is uncommonly effec- 

 tive.//. V. 



No. XI. 



BURDON's HORSE OINTMENT. 



Into a a clean pipkin that holds about a quart, put the bigness of 

 a pullet's egg of yellow resin ; when it is melted over a middling 

 fire, add the same quantity of bees-wax : when that is melted, 

 put in half a pound of hog's lard ; when it is dissolved, put in two 

 ounces of honey ; when that is dissolved, put in half a pound of 

 common turpentine : keep it gently boiling, stirring it with a stick 

 all the time : when the turpentine is dissolved, put in two ounces 

 of verdegrea^e, finely powdered, but, before you put in the ver- 

 degrease, you must take off the pipkin (else it will rise into the 

 fire in a moment) ; set it on again, and give it two or three wam- 

 bles, and strain it through a coarse sieve into a clean vessel, for 

 use, and throw away the dregs. 



This is an extraordinary ointment for a wound or bruise in flesh 

 or hoof, broken knees, g tiled backs, bites, cracked heels, mallen- 

 derse, or, when you geld a horse, to heal, and keep the flies away. 

 Nothing takes fire oat of a burn or scald in oilman flesh so soon : 

 I have had personal .experience of it. I had it out of De Grey j 

 but finding it apt to heal a wound at the top before the bottom was 

 sound, I improved it by adding nn ounce of verdegrease. 



FOR THE SCAB IN SHEEP. 



Take one pound o. quicksilver ; half a pound of Venice turpen- 

 tine ; half a pint of oil of" turpentine ; four pounds of hogVlard : 

 Let them be rubbed in a mortar, till the quicksilver is thoroughly 

 incorporated with the other ingredients. To be applied along the 

 back on the skin, in two lines on e.^ch sidej in one down the shoul- 

 der, and between the legs. The operation not to l?e later than 

 Michaelmas. Sir Joseph Banks. 



