The Edinburgh white Ointment with Camphire

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Source: The plain English dispensatory; containing the natural history and medicinal virtues of the principal simples now in use. Also all the compositions in the three dispensatories of London, Edinburgh, and Dr. Fuller; the history of the incorporation of the College of Physicians of London: of the principal chymists; of the venereal disease; of the circulation of the blood; and other important subjects by Colborne, Robert, active 1753 (1753), paragraph-3279.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• This is made by mixing with the foregoing, when taken from the Fire, one Ounce of Camphire , firft ground with a few Drops of Oil of Almonds
• Oil- olive, a Pint and a half ; and white Wax, half a Pound:
• Litharge, and Armenian Bole, of each four Ounces, and Camphire, three Drams, firft ground with a little Oil of Al¬ monds ; ftir them well together
• Oil-olive, a Pint ; white Wax, three Ounces, and Sugar of Lead, half an Ounce:
• Sugar of Lead, two Ounces, and Oil- olive, a Pint

Method as extracted

1. Take Oil- olive, a Pint and a half ; and white Wax, half a Pound:
2. Melt them to¬ gether, and having taken them from the Fire, gradually mix in of Cala- mine-ftone, fix Ounces;
3. Take Oil-olive, a Pint ; white Wax, three Ounces, and Sugar of Lead, half an Ounce:
4. Rub the Sugar of Lead, firft made into a fine Powder, with fome Part of the Oil ; then add this to the Wax melt¬ ed with the reft of the Oil, and ftir it till it is quite cold.
5. Take Sugar of Lead, two Ounces, and Oil- olive, a Pint.

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