240 PIIARMACOPCCIA. 



Boil for two hours gently in six quarts of 

 water. 



No, 2. Wormwood dried, and chamomile 

 flowers, of each four ounces. 

 Hue, three ounces. 

 Bay leaves two ounces. 



Boil them for one hour in a gallon of wa- 

 ter, 



Eeyiiark — The efficacy of a fomentation 

 depends on its being properly applied, 

 therefore we have to observe, that the liquid 

 should be as liot as the hand can bear ; or to 

 be more accurate, a thermometer may be 

 used, and then the proper temperature will 

 be about 120. Lar'j;e flannel cloths are to 

 be dipped into the fomentation, then lightly 

 wrung out, and spread over the affected 

 part; by the time this gets a little cool, 

 another cloth should be got ready, and ap- 

 plied in the same manner : this operation 

 ought to be continued for half an hour at 

 least, a'.id repeated three or four times a 

 day. The emollient fomentation is adapted 

 to inflamed swellings, from whatever cause 

 they may arise ; and when it cannot be pro- 

 cured, warm water alone will be found an 

 useful substitute. The anodyne fomenta- 



