order improperly called the heart- burn, &c

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Source: Pharmacopoeia officinalis et extemporanea: or, a compleat English dispensatory. In two parts. Theoretic and practical. Part I in two books ... Part II in five books ... by Quincy, John, -1722. n 85067259 (1782), paragraph-6676.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• of drawing plafter, two pounds ; cantharides, one pound ; vinegar, half a pint
• of yellow wax, two pounds ; white refin and hogs lard, of each one pound ; olive oil, eight ounces* and powdered cantharides, a pound and a half

Method as extracted

1. Take of drawing plafter, two pounds ; cantharides, one pound ; vinegar, half a pint.
2. Melt the drawing plafter, and a little before it grows ftiff, mix in the cantha- rides, reduced into a moil fubtile powder ; then add the vinegar, and work them well together.
3. Take of yellow wax, two pounds ; white refin and hogs lard, of each one pound ; olive oil, eight ounces* and powdered cantharides, a pound and a half.
4. Mix the powdered flies with the oil, then gradually add the mixture to the other ingre- dients previoufly melted, but re- moved from the fire.

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