Ointment of Calamine

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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 by Buchan, William, 1729-1805 (1797), paragraph-6485.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• of olive oil, a pint and a half; white wax, and calamine ftone, levicated) af each half a pound
• of palm oil, two pounds ; olive oil, a pint and a half} yellow wax, half a pound’

Method as extracted

1. Take of olive oil, a pint and a half; white wax, and calamine ftone, levicated) af each half a pound.
2. Let the caiamine flone, reduced into a fine powder, be rubbed with fome part ef the oil, and afterwards added to the reit of the oil and wax, pres vioufly melted together, continually firring them till quite cold, This ointment, which is commoniy known by the name of Turzer’s Cerate, is art exceeding good application Re and excoriations, from whatever canfe, Bi | ~ i “ifs | BY Ge if Emollient Orntment.
3. Take of palm oil, two pounds ; olive oil, a pint and a half} yellow wax, half a pound’;
4. Melt the wax in the oils over a gentle fire ; then mix in the turpentine, and firain the ointment. , , This fupplies the place of Alibea Ointment. it may be ulcd for anointing inflamed parts, &c. ee

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