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ON UNGUENTUM TABACI. 
On the suggestion and by the prescription of Dr. Joseph 
Parrish, I have recently kept an "Unguentum Tabaci 
Composita," for which I offer the following formula: 
Take of Basilicon ointment, - §xiij. 
Powd. camphor, gj. et 3v. 
Extract of belladonna, - - gij, 
Fluid ext. of tobacco, (made as above,) fgvj. 
Dissolve the extract of belladonna in the fluid extract of 
tobacco, and add to the melted ointment, in which the 
camphor should be previously dissolved. Stir constantly 
till cool. 
Dr. Parrish, in the late number of his " New Jersey 
Medical Reporter," in an article on "Milk Abscess,*' after 
referring to the employment of warm vinegar by the late 
Dr. Dewees, speaks favorably of the tobacco ointment pre- 
pared as above, and states that "after repeated trials, with 
a variety of unguents and liniments,"* he had abandoned 
them all except the above compound ointment, which, says 
he, " I use in nearly every case of mammary abscess, and 
generally with entire satisfaction."* 
I may remark that I have not known of a single case of 
disappointment from the use of the simpler ointment. I 
conclude with extracting'the following passages from Dr. 
Parrish's Essay : 
"The Belladonna is not always used, though I do not 
know that it is ever inadmissible. The tobacco ointment 
wds first introduced to my notice by Wm. J. Allinson, an 
apothecary of this city,* who makes it in a manner some- 
what different from the officinal formula: the menstruum 
used by him being vinegar instead of alcohol, as directed 
by the U. S. Dispensatory, thus meeting in some measure 
the suggestion of Dr. Dewees.*' * * * * * 
"It frequently affords relief even after the acute, lanci- 
* Burlington, N. J. 
