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Source: Buchan's Domestic medicine modernized; or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicine : containing, ... observations on the comparative advantages of vaccine inoculation, ... an essay, enabling ruptured persons to manage themselves ... a family herbal: and such useful discoveries in medicine and surgery as have transpired since the demise of the late William Buchan by Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1809), paragraph-4979.
Ingredients or materials as extracted
- Ointment of Acetated Cernfe. — Take of olive oil, half a pint ; white wax, two ounces; aeftated cerui'e, three drachms
- OinLmenl of Cluickfi/ver.-^-'l'a.ke of quickdlver,two ounces; hogs’ lard, three ounces ; mutton fuet, one ounce
Method as extracted
- Let theace- tated cerufe, reduced. into a fine po'-vder, be' rubbed up with fome part of the oil, -and afterwards ' added to the other ingredients, previoudy melted together, continually dirring them till quite cold. — This cool- ing and gently adringent ointment may be ufed in all cafes where the intention is to dry and Ikin over the part, as in fcalding, &c.
- Rub the quickfilver with an ounce'of hogs’ lard in a v.’arm inortar, till the globules be perfe6lly exlinguidied ; then rub it up with the red of the lard aiid fuet, previoudy melted together. — The principal intention of this ointment is to convey mercury into th« body by being rubbed upon the (kin.
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Primary and supporting references
- Buchan's Domestic medicine modernized; or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicine : containing, ... observations on the comparative advantages of vaccine inoculation, ... an essay, enabling ruptured persons to manage themselves ... a family herbal: and such useful discoveries in medicine and surgery as have transpired since the demise of the late William Buchan — Buchan's Domestic medicine modernized; or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicine : containing, ... observations on the comparative advantages of vaccine inoculation, ... an essay, enabling ruptured persons to manPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-4979.