Ointment of Elder

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Source: The dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in London: [translated] with some notes relating to manner of composition, and remarks on the changes made in most of the officinal medicines, from their first prescribers down to the present practice by Quincy, John, -1722 (1727), paragraph-1609.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• of the Elder Leaves, gathered in May, tern Handsful; of the young Shoots, growing about the bottom of the Tree, two Pounds; of the in¬ ner Bark of the fame, one Pound
• of prepared Tutty two Ounces; of Cala- i mine burnt and quenched rwro or three times in Plantain Water, one Ounce:

Method as extracted

1. Take of the Elder Leaves, gathered in May, tern Handsful; of the young Shoots, growing about the bottom of the Tree, two Pounds; of the in¬ ner Bark of the fame, one Pound.
2. Take of prepared Tutty two Ounces; of Cala- i mine burnt and quenched rwro or three times in Plantain Water, one Ounce:
3. Let them be reduced to a very fine Powder, and mixed with one Pound and an half of the 'Unguentum Rofaceum , fo as to make them into an Ointment. <c Nicolaus was the firft who gave a Prefcripti- u on under this Tide, and which is in the Au- “ gufiane Difpenfatory, but that is loaded with a “ great many unnecelfary Ingredients, and differs *f but little from the Diapompholygos : but the V College at firft received ir in this more compen-

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