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USE OF MERCUBIAL OINTMENT. 



Recipe, and in what Cases serviceable. 



(RECIPE, No. 186.) 

 Mercurial Ointment 



Take — Quicksilver, half a pound; Venice turpenine, 



four ounces ; 

 Spirit of turpentine, one ounce ; 

 iPutthem in a marble iiioHar, and rub them 



together till the globules entirely disappear ; 



then add 

 Hog's lard J one pound and a half; 

 Bees' wax, four ounces : melt the wax and 



lard together, and add them to the former. 



Let them be well stirred together until cold. 



This is a very useful ointment for innkeepers, 

 and persons who keep horses to run post; it 

 ought always to be kept ready prepared, as it re- 

 quires a person to work at it for nearly a whole 

 day, before the silver is properly incorporated. 

 It will be found a speedy and effectual cure for 

 3ore shoulders and backs, bruises, scratches, 

 mange, mallenders and sallenders, the poll-evil 

 before it breaks out, and likewise for greasy heels. 

 A little of the ointment may be rubbed on the 



