256 PHARMACOPOEIA. 



No. 1. Spermaceti ointment, four ounces, 

 Olive oil, one ounce. 

 • Sugar of lead, two drams. 

 Flowers of zinc, one ounce. — Mix. 

 No. 2. Ointment of althea, four ounces. 

 Extract of saturn, three drams. 

 Oil of elder, half an ounce. 

 Lapis calaminaris, finely levigated, 

 one ounce.— Mix. 



SATURNINE OINTMENT. 



Spermaceti ointment, four ounces. 

 Cold drawn linseed oil, one ounce. 



Melt them slowly, by placing the gaily- 

 pot in boiling water, and when the mixture 

 is cooling, add of Goulard's extract, o!ie 

 ounce. Continue stirrins^ until the mixture 

 is cold. 



li^mark — There are various other oint- 

 ments used by farriers, but the formulse, or 

 receipts we have given here, and in other 

 places, will answer every purpose. There 

 is an ointment termed cegyptiacuvi, much 

 used by farriers, which is made by simmer- 

 ing over a slow fire, four ounces powdered 

 verdigris, four oudces of honey, and eight 

 ounces of strong vinegar ; this is a detergent 

 ointment, and the receipts we have given. 



