OIL. 
agreeable flavour: when expofed to the air, in an open 
bottle or cafk, a white fibrous albuminous matter is depofited, 
and the sa _ becomes clear and of a dilute yellow 
eolour : when 
time, without undergoing an 
allowed to ftand on the white matter, it becomes in a few 
year and a ha The {pecific 
gravity of olive i is .915 33 3 it boils at about yo0° Fahren- 
8° Helios 
Olive-oil is often fophifticated by a mixture of po 
oil, which renders it drying, a quality which the genuine oil 
doce not poffefs. In countries that produce it, it is ufed 
for food, as butter is i us; that of the inferior kinds is 
burnt in lamps, or emplo n the manufacture of foaps, 
which are of a finer quality aa thofe that are compofed of 
animal oils, The beit oil is made in 
whi country is brought ucca and 
It is imported in jars . half-j -jars, and half-chetts, 
which are wooden packages containing flafks. 
Olive-oil is ufed in medicine, internally, as a demulcent 
in catarrh and other pulmonary affections, diffufed in water 
poifons 
Ropping up the cutaneous exhalants, appe 
we: which 
e peeve 
The body is ordered to be very brifkly rubbed al over with 
a clean ip tia in warm olive-oil, and the operation 
is repeated once a day until fymptoms “of oo appear. 
Mr. Jackfon rer that the coolies, who a 
rictions 
alfo aed as an injection on as adjun 
glyfters in dyfentery and inteftinal abeahcens aa ete 
in pharmacy, in the compofitions of ointments and platters. 
The dofe of olive oil is from f.2fs to f.3j, triturated with 
mucilage, or mixed with water by means of a few drops of 
folution of potafs. In cafes of poifons and worms, as much 
ay iven as the ftomach can bear. he officinal pre- 
efides cerates and ointments, are Oleum 
inimentum ammoniz fortius, L. E. D. 
- ammoniz eat bonatic, L. m. calcis, D. 
capo L.E.D. Emplaftrum oaks mp. 
hydrargyri, E. Emp. oxidi rubri ferri, E. Enema cathar- 
ticum, D. 
For the « oleum fulphuratum,”’ fee preparations of Sux- 
PHuR. For the liniments, fee Liniment. For the ae 
fee EmpiastruM and Prasrer. Aikin. Thomfon 
O1t of Orange-peel. See oo. Cortex. 
Ou of Origanum. See Marsoram. 
Ou, Palm, or Oil o 
Linim, 
ruit 
in Senegal. 
Many of the palms produce nuts, which abound in oil. 
t of the 
Florentine i iris; by long keeping it saa nc, and is 
then aa! white, and almoft without odeu 
ricans and the Negroes in the Welt Indies ufe 
this oil as we do butter; and burn it in their lamps when 
old. With us, it is only ufed in fome external applications, 
for pains and weaknefs of the nerves, cramps, {prains, and 
other fuch complaints. The common people fometimes 
apply it to chilblains ; “and when ufed early, not without 
enefit. 
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panel fire changes the counterfeit, but does not alter the 
O1L ~, Penny-royal, (See Mentua Pulegium.) This oil, 
which is of a reddifh-yellow colour, refembles in its other 
qualities the oil of pepper-mint. Its {pecific gravity is .978. 
is ftimulant and antifpaf{modic, but feldom ufed. T 
e 
eavier 
re water. It has the fame properties ie the all- iLipice but 
ina greater degree: it is given in dy{peptic affeétions, colic, 
and tympanitis, in dofes of frem 1 ij to m v, rubbed with 
fugar, or in any proper velticle. Its officinal preparation 
is emplaftrum aromaticum of the Dublin college. See 
a ER. 
rg 
of 
L of sce neg Mentua.) Thisis a commo 
en rem of the ftomach, flatulent colic, 
and anorexia; of ‘ufually rubbed up with fugar or mucilage. 
The dofe is from 1 Lj to Ny iij. The officinal oo” are 
ard thet camp. E. Pilu'e aloes cum viet Sooe 
Or of Petrol, See NapuTua and Petr 
OIL of Pimento. See Pimento, and O11 f Jamaica pep- 
per, 
Supr 
Gin ie Blak Pitch. See Pir 
arge e white p poppy ( Papover oe 
i in 
any. 
ed down to 0° of Fahr. with- 
a ie ple is as food, it is {c ad, to 
be ditinguifhed fom, ae oil, often adulterated 
with it. The quantity of oil acd by a given weight of 
the feeds depends partly on the country and "feafon in which 
the feeds are produced, and partly on the mode of extra@ting 
the oil. From roolbs. of frefh feeds, fome ad the pro- 
duce of oil at 25lbs., and others at 58lbs. It is ufed as an 
article . diet, and in the compofition of varnifhes, but it is 
ry unfit for burning in a lamp. See Papaver and 
L of Rape feed. See Rare, and On of Cole-feed. 
On,’ Red, in the Porcelain Manufadure, a name given to 
9 a peculiar 
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