The Edinburgh white Ointment with Camphire

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Source: A complete English dispensatory: containing the general nature and medicinal virtues of all the simples now in use. With the prescriptions of the most approved authors, as well as of the London and Edinburgh dispensatories ... To which is prefix'd, the history of the ... College of Physicians, London; of the principal chymists; of the venereal diseases; of the circulation of the blood; and other ... subjects by Colborne, Robert (1756), paragraph-3243.

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, firh ground with a little Oil of Al¬ monds ; hir 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-hone, lix Ounces;
3. Take Oil-olive, a Pint ; white Wax, three Ounces, and Sugar of Lead, half an Ounce :
4. Rub the Sugar of Lead, firh made into a fine Powder, with fome Part of the Oil ; then add this to the Wax melt¬ ed with the reh of the Oil, and hir it till it is quite cold.
5. Take Sugar of Lead, two Ounces, and Oil- olive, a Pint.

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