Ointment of quicksilver not only near

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Historical use wording: are to take off the spasmodic symptoms and to throw the insidious poison out of the habit

Source: Domestic medicine. Or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines : containing observations on the comparative advantages of vaccine inoculation, with instructions for performing the operation an essay, enabling puptured [sic] persons to manage themselves, with engravings of bandages, which every person may prepare for himself and a family herbal. To which are added, such useful discoveries ... as have transpired since the demise of the author by Buchan, William, 1729-1805. n 82060399 (1813), narrative-offset-968133.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• quicksilver not only near: solid opium and vitriolated quicksilver-of each one grain and a half to two grains, camphor three, tartarized antimony half a grain; let them he well rubed together in a glass mortar, and with conserve of roses form a bolus, to be given at bed- time

Method as extracted

1. Mix according to the source passage: The indications of cure are to take off the spasmodic symptoms and to throw the insidious poison out of the habit : this is to be at- tempted by alow diet; by bleeding freely; by vomiting with the vitriolated quicksilver ; by rubbing' in the ointment of quicksilver not only near the place where the bite was received, but along the spine of the back ; by the use of the warm hath ; by oil thrown into the body by frictions frequently repeated; by the mouth, as often and as much as can be got down, and injected by the anus in the form of a lavement ; in line, by speedily exciting a salivation by the internal and external use of the preparations of quicksilver, of which the vitriolated, for internal use, has in these cases been deemed the most useful. Take solid opium and vitriolated quicksilver-of each one grain and a half to two grains, camphor three, tartarized antimony half a grain; let them he well rubed together in a glass mortar, and with conserve of roses form a bolus, to be given at bed- time.

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