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milk) in a very shallow small iron vessel with a pestle, a very shallow 

 iron pestle and mortar. The alum should be well pulverised alone 

 first, and then the two rubbed together for a couple of hours. 



The first ointment should continue to be rubbed three or four hours. 



The goodness of both will depend on their being thoroughly pul- 

 verised, &c. as directed. 



No. 2. will generally be found sufficient, but should it not, then 

 No. 1. must be had recourse to. 



We add the recipe for one other native ointment^ which 

 Professor Webb has found to be very efficacious among the 

 children of the Lower Orphan School. From our own expe- 

 rience of its use in the epidemic ophthalmia at present pevail- 

 ing among the Men of the 18th R. I. in the fort^ we are 

 inclined to think its use to be only advantageous in slight 

 cases. We cannot say that the formula is a very pharmaceu- 

 tical one. 



Recipe for Eye Ointment. 



Suth-ka-kharoo, or a piece of a bangle worn by the women of 

 Chittagong, equal quantities of the leaves of Thoolsee, woodapple, 

 and Bhungralah, to be bruised in a mortar, and the juice strained 

 through a muslin rag. Two or three cloves, one grain of opium, 

 about two drachms of Rasout, a few grains of lamp-black burnt, a few 

 grains of metea sandhoor, two or three yellow cowries, some honey 

 or burnt butter, two drachms of alum. 



All these to be ground with the palm of the hand on the back of 

 a bell-metal chillumchee or thallee. The juice to be added gradu- 

 ally while grinding, and when it becomes thick, to be strained through 

 muslin. 



N.B. — Suth-ka-kharoo is a species of shell used by the natives for 

 bangles. 



Thoolsee is the Ocimum sanctum. 



Woodapple is the Feronia elephantum. 



Bhungralah, a common herb growing in abundance everywhere, 

 Corchorus olitorius ? 



Metea sandhoor, red oxide of lead. 



