Ointments. — For Old Sores. — Red precipitate, 1-2 ounce; sugar of lead, 1-2 ounce; burnt alum, i ounce; white vitriol, 1-4 ounce, or a little less; all to be very finely pulverized; have mutton tallow made warm, 1-2 pound; stir all in, and stir until cooL MEDICINAL. 393 Judkins Ointment. — Linseed oil, i pint; sweet oil, i ounce; and boil them in a kettle on coals for nearly 4 hours, as warm as you can; then have pulverized and mixed borax, 1-2 ounce; red lead, 4 ounces; and sugar of lead, i 1-2 ounce; remove the kettle from the fire, and thicken in the powder; continue the stirring until cooled to blood-heat, then stir in i ounce of spirits of turpentine; and now take out a little, letting it get cold, and, if not then sufficiently thick to spread upon thin, soft linen, as a salve, you will boil again until this point is reached. It is good for all kinds of wounds, bruises, sores, burns, white swellings, rheumatisms, ulcers, sore breasts; and, even when there are wounds on the inside, it has been used with advantage by applying a plaster over the part. Green Ointment. — Honey and bees-wax, each 1-2 pound; spirits of turpentine, i ounce; wintergreen oil and laudanum, each 2 ounces; verdigris, finely pulverized, 1-4 ounce; lard, i 1-2 pounds; mix by a stove fire, in a copper kettle, heating slowly. Mead's Salt-Rheum Ointment. — Aqua fortis, i ounce; quick- silver, I ounce; good hard soap dissolved so as to mix readily, 1 ounce; prepared chalk, i ounce; mixed with i pound of lard; incorporate the above by putting the aqua fortis and quick- silver into an earthen vessel, and, when done effervescing, mix with the other ingredients, putting the chalk in last, add a little spirits of turpentine, say 1-2 tablespoonful. Itch Ointment. — Unsalted butter, i pound; burgundy pitch, 2 ounces; spirits of turpentine, 2 ounces; red precipitate, pul- verized, I 1-4 ounces; melt the pitch and add the butter; stir- ring well together; then remove from the fire, and, when a little cool, add the spirits of turpentine, and lastly the precipitate, and stir until cold. Jaundice. — Dr. Peabody's Cure. — In its Worst Forms. — Red iodide of mercury, 7 grains; iodide of potassium, 9 grains; aqua dis (distilled water) i ounce; mix. Commence by giving 6 drops three or four times a day, increasing i drop a day until 12 or 15 drops are given at a dose. Give in a little water, immediately after meals. If it causes a griping sensa- tion in the bowels, and fullness in the head, when you get up to 12 or 15 drops, go back to 6 drops, and up again as before. Inflammatory Rheumatism. — Wright's Cure. — Sulphur and salt-petre, of each i ounce; gum guaiac, 1-2 ounce; col- chicum root, or seed, and nutmegs, of each 1-4 ounce; all to be pulverized and mixed with simple syrup, or molasses, 2 ounces. Dose, I teaspoonful every two hours until it moves the bowels rather freely; then 3 or 4 times daily until cured. Asthma Remedies. — Elecampane, angelica, confrey, and spikenard roots with hoarhound tops, of each i ounce; bruise &U Medicinal. and steep in honey, i pint. Dose, a tablespoonful, taken hot every few minutes until a cure is affected.

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Ointments. — For Old Sores. — Red precipitate, 1-2 ounce; sugar of lead, 1-2 ounce; burnt alum, i ounce; white vitriol, 1-4 ounce, or a little less; all to be very finely pulverized; have mutton tallow made warm, 1-2 pound; stir all in, and stir until cool. Judkins Ointment. — Linseed oil, i pint; sweet oil, i ounce; and boil them in a kettle on coals for nearly 4 hours, as warm as you can; then have pulverized and mixed borax, 1-2 ounce; red lead, 4 ounces; and sugar of lead, i 1-2 ounce; remove the kettle from the fire, and thicken in the powder; continue the stirring until cooled to blood-heat, then stir in i ounce of spirits of turpentine; and now take out a little, letting it get cold, and, if not then sufficiently thick to spread upon thin, soft linen, as a salve, you will boil again until this point is reached. It is good for all kinds of wounds, bruises, sores, burns, white swellings, rheumatisms, ulcers, sore breasts; and, even when there are wounds on the inside, it has been used with advantage by applying a plaster over the part. Green Ointment. — Honey and bees-wax, each 1-2 pound; spirits of turpentine, i ounce; wintergreen oil and laudanum, each 2 ounces; verdigris, finely pulverized, 1-4 ounce; lard, i 1-2 pounds; mix by a stove fire, in a copper kettle, heating slowly. Mead's Salt-Rheum Ointment. — Aqua fortis, i ounce; quicksilver, I ounce; good hard soap dissolved so as to mix readily, 1 ounce; prepared chalk, i ounce; mixed with i pound of lard; incorporate the above by putting the aqua fortis and quicksilver into an earthen vessel, and, when done effervescing, mix with the other ingredients, putting the chalk in last, add a little spirits of turpentine, say 1-2 tablespoonful. Itch Ointment. — Unsalted butter, i pound; burgundy pitch, 2 ounces; spirits of turpentine, 2 ounces; red precipitate, pulverized, I 1-4 ounces; melt the pitch and add the butter; stirring well together; then remove from the fire, and, when a little cool, add the spirits of turpentine, and lastly the precipitate, and stir until cold. Jaundice. — Dr. Peabody's Cure. — In its Worst Forms. — Red iodide of mercury, 7 grains; iodide of potassium, 9 grains; aqua dis (distilled water) i ounce; mix. Commence by giving 6 drops three or four times a day, increasing i drop a day until 12 or 15 drops are given at a dose. Give in a little water, immediately after meals. If it causes a griping sensation in the bowels, and fullness in the head, when you get up to 12 or 15 drops, go back to 6 drops, and up again as before. Inflammatory Rheumatism. — Wright's Cure. — Sulphur and salt-petre, of each i ounce; gum guaiac, 1-2 ounce; colchicum root, or seed, and nutmegs, of each 1-4 ounce; all to be pulverized and mixed with simple syrup, or molasses, 2 ounces. Dose, I teaspoonful every two hours until it moves the bowels rather freely; then 3 or 4 times daily until cured. Asthma Remedies. — Elecampane, angelica, confrey, and spikenard roots with hoarhound tops, of each i ounce; bruise &U Medicinal. and steep in honey, i pint. Dose, a tablespoonful, taken hot every few minutes until a cure is affected.

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