338 APPENDIX. 



Oxycroccum Plaster. 



sift out ten ounces with the mixed powder ; boil 

 the remainder with the iigs and liquorice in four 

 pounds of water to one-half; then strain and press 

 out the liquor, and evaporate it to the w^eight 

 of a pound and a half; dissolve the sugar in 

 it ; add this syrup by degrees to the pulps ; 

 and, lastly, mix in the powders. This electuary 

 may be given to the quantity of six or eight ounces 

 once a day, and is very useful in fevers, when 

 combined with other articles of a cooling nature, 

 to loosen the belly. See its use described in 

 many parts of this work. 



PLASTERS. 



OXYCROCCUM PLASTER. 



Take — Burgundy pitch ;► and yellow wax, of each one 

 pound ; 

 Galbanura, and tar, of each half a pound; 

 Dragon's blood, in powder, fotrr ounces : 

 Let them all be melted together over a slow 

 iire; when dissolved, pour them into a pot, 

 or bucket, half filled with water; and when 

 the ingredients begin to stiffen, roll the mass 

 'iivto plasters of a proper size^ 



