Ointment of elder four ounces

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Source: Pharmacopoeia hippiatrica: or, The gentleman farrier's repository, of elegant and approved remedies for the diseases of horses; in two books; 1764 by John Bartlet (1716?-1772) (1764), narrative-offset-79974.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• elder four ounces: TAKE of ointment of elder four ounces, oil of turpentine two ounces, fugar of lead half an ounce, white vitriol powder’d two drams, mix to- pether, REMARK. After bleeding, cooling phyfic, and giving nitre thrice a day for fome time, the buds fhould be anointed with the above night and morning: which when the farcy affects only the fmaller veffels, they are fome- times by this method alone difperfed ; but in order to'

Method as extracted

1. Mix according to the source passage: TAKE of ointment of elder four ounces, oil of turpentine two ounces, fugar of lead half an ounce, white vitriol powder’d two drams, mix to- pether, REMARK. After bleeding, cooling phyfic, and giving nitre thrice a day for fome time, the buds fhould be anointed with the above night and morning: which when the farcy affects only the fmaller veffels, they are fome- times by this method alone difperfed ; but in order to'confirm the cure, ’tis proper to give two ounces of liver of antimony finely powder’d Praétical FARRER Y, $3 powder’d for a fortnight, and then an ounce a day for a fortnight longer.

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