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DESCHAMPS ON POMMADES. 
OINTMENT OP RED OXIDE OP MERCUR3T. 
(Pommade de Lyon.) 
Red oxide of Mercury, - - 2.00 grms. 
Benzoated grease, - - 32.00 " 
Ess. oil of roses, - - - 2 drops. 
This may also be prepared with butter, but it does not 
keep so well as when prepared with Benzoated grease. 
MERCURIAL OINTMENT. 
Eleven months have transpired since the preparation of 
this ointment with the populinated grease, and it is not 
rancid. 
Lip Salve as commonly made, soon becomes rancid, loses 
color, and granulation ensues. Made by the following for- 
mula, it does not become rancid, or produce any disagree- 
able impression upon the lips. 
Populinated grease, - 120.00 gOTs7~™~ 
Newly melted suet, or populinated 
suet, 40.00 " 
Alkanet, - - - - 8.00 " 
Place the whole in a tinned skillet, heat at a low temper- 
ature, pass through linen, and aromatize with 
Ess. oil of roses, - - - 10 drops. 
Mix and cool quickly, stirring in the mean time. 
From the exposition of these facts it results: — 
That the ointment ofiodid. potassii can only be prepared 
with benzoated or populinated grease, or else butter. 
That the ointment of red oxide of mercury and mercurial 
ointment, made with the grease thus prepared, may be kept 
a year without any sign of rancidity. 
That the benzoated grease, by reason of its whiteness, 
should be preferred when the ointments are intended to be 
