Ointment for Diseases of the Shin

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Historical use wording: Diseases of the Shin

Source: Buchan enlarged. Domestic medicine; or, The family physician, 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 is added ... rules and regulations to be observed ... in the management of infants, etc by Buchan, William, 1729-1805. n 82060399 (1818), paragraph-4960.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• of the ointment commonly called unguent-um citrinumi a dram and a half; flour of brimstone, and powder of hellebore, of each an ounce ; hogs- lard, three ounces ; essence of lemon, or oil of thyme, from twenty to thirty drops, to correct the ofi'ensiveness of the smell
• of olive-oil, one pint; white wax and spermaceti, of each three ounces
• It two drams of camphor, previously rubbed with a small quantity of Oil, be added to the above, it will make the Whiit camphorated Ointment

Method as extracted

1. Take of the ointment commonly called unguent-um citrinumi a dram and a half; flour of brimstone, and powder of hellebore, of each an ounce ; hogs- lard, three ounces ; essence of lemon, or oil of thyme, from twenty to thirty drops, to correct the ofi'ensiveness of the smell.
2. Take of olive-oil, one pint; white wax and spermaceti, of each three ounces.
3. Melt them with a gentle heat, and keep them constantly and briskly stirring together till quite cold.

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