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Externally, lint soaked with, it is an efficient dressing for wonnds and 
sores. When first applied it causes a good deal of smarting, but this 
soon passes off. 
Gall and opium ointment is a useful application for piles. 
Ginger, essence of .—Dose, five to twenty drops. It is useful in cases 
of cramp, colic, and indigestion, especially if combined with five or ten 
grains of bicarbonate of soda and two or three drops of chloroform. 
If there is much pain, ten drops or more of chlorodyne or laudanum 
may be added. 
* Goa powder.—See Araroba. 
* Goulard water .—Eor external use only. Is astringent, and may be 
used as a lotion for inflamed joints. Is also useful as an injection in 
gonorrhoea, and gleet, as a soothing lotion in herpes, shingles, eczema, 
discharge from the ear, and itching and chafes of all kinds. It should 
not be used as an eye lotion. 
Goulard water is made by adding one part of Liquor Plumbi 
Subacetatis Eortis, or Goulard Extract, and one of alcohol to seventy-eight 
of water. 
One of the soloids of the subacetate of lead added to a quarter of a 
pint of water (distilled when convenient) makes a solution similar to 
Goulard water. 
Gum acacia is used for forming a mucilage with which to suspend such 
drugs as carbonate of bismuth. One part of gum to three of water should 
be made and strained before use. Starch may be used for the same 
purpose. 
Gum water may be very freely given in cases of irritable bladder. 
Hazeline .—Dose, thirty to one hundred and twenty drops. It is a 
powerful astringent, very useful in spitting of blood. May be applied 
freely to bleeding parts, such as the nose, gums, piles, or small wounds. 
One tablespoonful of hazeline to five of water may be injected into the 
bowel for bleeding piles. 
Ichthyol .—An ointment containing twenty per cent, of ichthyol is 
very soothing inmost skin diseases, such as eczema and psoriasis. The 
ointment is of service in reducing the pain and swelling of mosquito 
bites. 
* Iodine , tincture of .—Dose, two drops in a teaspoonful of water; given 
every hour, is most valuable for obstinate vomiting. 
