Saturnine Cerate

Ingredients

• Powdered acetate of lead, a drachm
• white wax, 2 ozs.
• olive oil, half a pint

Method

1. 1

   Melt the wax in the oil, and add gradually the acetate of lead, separately rubbed down with a portion of the oil reserved for that purpose.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Consult me (1902) by Robert Kemp Philp, page 503. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

saturnine cerate, described hereafter. Poultices made of the oak bark, sumach bark, may be used alternately. Sometimes ulcers are very irritable, tender, and painful. They discharge a thin acrid fluid. They should be steamed every night with a bitter decoc- tion, and occasionally washed with an infusion of camomile flowers, or a strong decoction of wild cherry bark, with a little spirit. Poultice with slippery elm, mixed with a strong decoction of poplar bark, and a trifle of salt. Repeat, as required. If the ulcer or ulcers are indolent, steam as before, and apply the Cancer Plaster, with only a trifle of the white vitriol mixed with it; or, sprinkle the ulcer with powdered blood-root. Sometimes ulcers become very much inflamed, and assume a livid colour ; they are covered with small vesicles or blisters, as in mortification. Wash the ulcer with tincture of myrrh, and apply a poultice made of charcoal, yeast, slippery elm, ginger, and a minute por- tion of tincture of cayenne. Bear it as long as possible. Then apply the saturnine cerate. The following is recommended by Dr. Beach : — Take sweet clover tops and stalks, burdock leaves, and parsley, a handful of each ; get the strength out by boiling ; strain, and add i lb. of resin, and % lb. of fresh butter ; sim- mer until of a proper consistence. A cold water cloth constantly applied is a good remedy. Put a little cerate on the ulcer previously. Attend to the general health, by cleansing the stomach and bowels, and then giving tonics. Saturnine Cerate. Powdered acetate of lead, a drachms ; white wax, a ozs. ; olive oil, half a pint

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.