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Parace^«5us Plaster, and Compound Diachylon Plaster. 



This plaster is in constant use with most far- 

 riers; it is mixed with other plasters in charges 

 of different kinds. 



PARACELSUS PLASTER. 



Take — Diachylon plaster, eight pounds ; 



Yellow resin, one pound and a half; 

 Frankincense, half a pound ; 

 Gum galbanuni, four ounces ; 

 Melt them all together over a slow fire ; and, 

 ■when properly united, form them into 

 plasters. 



This, as well as the preceding plaster, is in 

 constant use ; and though it varies from the ori- 

 ginal, in leaving out several of the articles, yet, in 

 quality, it is equal in point of strength and utility. 



COMPOUND diachylon PLASTER. 



Take — Strained galbanum, eight ounces ; 

 Diachylon plaster, three pounds ; 

 Common turpentine, two ounces ; 

 Frankincense, four ounces ; 

 Powder the frankincense, and dissolve them 

 together over a slow fire ; then form them 

 into plasters according to art. 

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