Common Plaster

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Source: Domestic medicine. A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners by Buchan, William, 1729-1805. n 82060399 (1824), paragraph-5227.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Common Plaster. — Take of common olive oil, six pints; litharge, reduced to a fine powder, two pounds and a half

Method as extracted

1. Boil the litharge and oil together over a gentle fire, continually stirring them, and keeping always about half a gallon of water in the vessel : after they have boiled about three hours, a little of the plaster may be taken out and put into cold water, to try if it be of a proper consistence : when that is the case, the whole may be suffered to cool, and the water well pressed out of it with the hands.

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