Ointment of Y a

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Historical use wording: are to take off the fpafmodic fyinpioms, and to throw the infidious poifon out of the habit

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), narrative-offset-1006689.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Y a: folid opium and vitriolated quickfilver of each one grain and a half to two grains, camphor tliree grains, tartarized antimony half a grain ; let them be well rubbed together in a glafs mortar, and with conferve of rofes 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 fpafmodic fyinpioms, and to throw the infidious poifon out of the habit; this is to beat- tempted by a low diet by bleeding freely ; by vomiting with the vitriolated quickfilver ; by rubbing in the ointment of «rjuickfilver not only near the place where the bite was received, but along the fpine of the back ; by the ufe of the warm bath ; by 'oil thrown into the body by friftions frequently repeated ; by the mouth, as often and a» much as can be got down, and injefted by the anus in the form of a lavement ; in fine, by fpeedily exciting a falivation by the internal and external ufe of the preparations of quickfilver, of which the vitriolat- ed, for internal ufe, has in thefe cafes been deemed the mod ufeful. Take folid opium and vitriolated quickfilver of each one grain and a half to two grains, camphor tliree grains, tartarized antimony half a grain ; let them be well rubbed together in a glafs mortar, and with conferve of rofes form a bolus, to be given at bed-time.

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