178 WOUNDS INT VARIOUS PARTS. 



Recipe — Digestive Oils. 



Add blue vitriol, in powder, four ounces ; 

 Wheat en flour, two ounces ; 

 Wine vinegar, two ounces ; 

 Oil of vitriol, half an ounce : 

 Beat them all together into a paste. 



Let the wound be filled up with this paste, 

 and a proper pledget of tow laid over the mouth, 

 in order to prevent it from falling out, and then 

 bandage it on with a strong roller. This dressing 

 must remain in the wound ten or twelve hours, 

 then remove it, and dress with one of the follow- 

 ing digestive oils, or the ointment. 



(RECIPE, No. 118.) 



Digestive Oils. 



Take— Red lead, half a pound ; 



Common salt, four ounces ; 



Powder them well together ; 



Add the yolks of three eggs, and incorporate 



them with the powders; then gradually 



add^ 



