Emollient Ointment

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Source: Domestic medicine : or, 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. To which are added, observations on the diet of the common people; recommending a method of living less expensive, and more conducive to health, than the present by Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1800), paragraph-5530.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• of palm oil, two pounds ; olive oil, a pint and a half; yellow wax, half a pound
• of hogs’ lard prepared, four ounces ; white wax, two drachms; tut ty prepared, one ounbe; melt the wax with the lard over a gentle fire, and then fprinkle in the tutty, continually ftirriug them till the ointment is cold
• This ointment will be more efficacious, and of a better Confiftence, if two or three drachms of camphor be rubbed up with a little oil, and intimately mixed with if
• of camphor, and calamine ftone levigated, each fix drachms; verdegrife well prepared, two drachms; hogs’ lard, and mutton fiiet, prepared, of each two ounces

Method as extracted

1. Take of palm oil, two pounds ; olive oil, a pint and a half; yellow wax, half a pound;
2. Melt the wax in the oils over a gentle fire; then mix in the turpentine, and ftrain the ointmenf.
3. Take of hogs’ lard prepared, four ounces ; white wax, two drachms; tut ty prepared, one ounbe; melt the wax with the lard over a gentle fire, and then fprinkle in the tutty, continually ftirriug them till the ointment is cold.
4. Take of camphor, and calamine ftone levigated, each fix drachms; verdegrife well prepared, two drachms; hogs’ lard, and mutton fiiet, prepared, of each two ounces..
5. Rub the camphor well with the powder ;' aftertvards mix in the lard and fuet, continuing the triture till they be perfeftly united.

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