EMP 5S7

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Source: Lexicon medicum, or, Medical dictionary [electronic resource] : containing an explanation of the terms in anatomy, botany, chemistry, materia medica, midwifery, mineralogy, pharmacy, physiology, practice of physic, surgery, and the various branches of natural philosophy connected with medicine by Hooper, Robert, 1773-1835; University of Glasgow. Library; University of Glasgow. Library (1831), paragraph-12930.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• of purified ammoniacum, a pound; purified mercury, three ounces ; sulphuretted oil, a fluid drachm
• of plaster of semi-vitrified oxide of lead, assafce- tida, each two parts ; galbanum, yellow wax, each one part
• of blistering flies, in very fine powder, a pound • wax plaster, a pound and a half; prepared tat, a pound
• of yellow wax prepared suet, of each three pounds; yellow res.n, a pound

Method as extracted

1. Take of purified ammoniacum, a pound; purified mercury, three ounces ; sulphuretted oil, a fluid drachm.
2. Rub the mercury with the sulphuretted oil, until the globules dis- appear; then add by degrees the ammoniacum, previously melted, and mix the whole toge- ther.
3. Take of plaster of semi-vitrified oxide of lead, assafce- tida, each two parts ; galbanum, yellow wax, each one part.
4. Take of blistering flies, in very fine powder, a pound • wax plaster, a pound and a half; prepared tat, a pound.
5. Take of yellow wax prepared suet, of each three pounds; yellow res.n, a pound.
6. Melt them together and strain.

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