WOUNDS IX VARIOUS PARTS. 185 



Recipe — Blistering Oils, to be ii.sed after Fomentation. 



Linseed, bruised, onr* pound ; 

 Camomile flowers, ludf i pound ; 

 Poppy heads, twel ve in number ; bruise them; 

 Three (gallons of ale drei's : 

 Boil them, and foment the part with hot flan- 

 nels wrunop out of it. 



After the part has been properly fomented, the 

 following blistering oils may be well rubbed in oq 

 the part affected. 



(RECIPE, No. 124.) 



Take — Linseed oil, half a pint; 



Spirit of turpentine, two ounces; 

 Cantharides, in powder, half au ounce; 

 Eiiphorbium, in powder, two drachms: 

 Mix, and shake them in a bottle for use. 



These blistering oils are excellent for inflam- 

 matory swellings, and external wounds, for the 

 prevention of mortification. They may be rub- 

 bed on (after the part has been fomented) twice a 



