184; WOUNDS IX VARIOUS PAUTS. 



Recipe — Caustic Oils, an;l Fomentation. 



acquiring a putrid smell, it may be concluded that 

 a complete mortification has taken place. Under 

 circumstances of this kind the most powerful 

 medicines must expeditiously be applied. 



(RECIPE, No. 122.) 



Caustic Oils, 



Take — Spirits of turpentine, one ounce ; 

 Oil ot* vitriol, half an ounce : 

 Mix them gradually together till united. 



Let the wound be well dressed with this mix- 

 ture; and afterwards take four ounces of the 

 digestive ointment (No. 121, p. 182), and two 

 drachms of cantharides, in powder ; melt the oint- 

 ment, and mix in the cantharides, and pour them 

 warm into the wound : then foment the part with 

 the following 



(RECIPE, No. 123.) 

 Fomentation. 

 Jake— Marsbraallow root, half a pound ; 



