S?-! ELDER. 



ELDER OINTMENT*. 



Take of Elder flowers one pound ; 



Prepared lard one pound. 



Boil the elder-flowers in the lard until they become crisp, then strain the 

 ointment through a linen cloth. An ointment may be made with the leaves 

 in the same manner. 



This is a useful emollient application to benign ulcers, &c. 



There is another British species, the Dwarf Elder or Dane- 

 wort, (^Sambucus Ebvlus,) occurring in waste places and by way- 

 sides, flowering in July. It may be easily discriminated from 

 the above by its low herbaceous stem, lanceolate leaflets, fo- 

 liaceous stipulae, cymes with three principal branches, and pur- 

 plish flowers. It is more purgative in all its parts than the 

 common Elder ; the inner bark is powerfully drastic and emetic, 

 and has sometimes produced dangerous eftects. Its sudorific 

 and diuretic properties are likewise more evident. 



• Unguentum Sambuci. — Pharm, Lond, et Dubl. 



