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Mix from one to four drachms of bruised gall-nuts with a pint of boiling water, and infuse for two hours, then strain and sweeten.

523. Tonic and Stimulant.

Mix six ounces of decoction of bark with two ounces of tincture of myrrh, and half a drachm of diluted sulphuric acid.

_Use_ in s...o...b..tic affections.

524. Alum.

Dissolve one drachm of alum in fifteen ounces of water, then add half an ounce of treacle, and one drachm of diluted sulphuric acid.

_Use_ as an astringent.

525. Myrrh.

Add six drachms of tincture of myrrh to seven ounces of infusion of linseed, and then add one drachm of diluted sulphuric acid.

_Use_ as a detergent.

526. For Slight Inflammation of the Throat.

Add one drachm of sulphuric ether to half an ounce of syrup of marsh-mallows, and six ounces of barley water. This may be used frequently.

527. Lotions.

Lotions are usually applied to the parts required by means of a piece of linen rag or piline, wetted with them, or by wetting the bandage itself.

They are for _outward application only_.

528. Emollient.

Use decoction of marsh-mallow or linseed.

529. Elder Flowers.

Add two drachms and a half of elder flowers to one quart of boiling water, infuse for one hour, and strain.

_Use_ as a discutient.

530. Sedative.

Dissolve one drachm of extract of henbane in twenty-four drachms of water.

531. Opium.

Mix two drachms of bruised opium with haif a pint of boiling water.

_Use_, when cold, for painful ulcers, bruises, &c.

532. Stimulant.

Dissolve one drachm of caustic potash in one pint of water, and then gradually pour it upon twenty-four grains of camphor and one drachm of sugar, previously bruised together in a mortar.

_Use_ for fungoid and flabby ulcers.

533. Ordinary.

Mix one drachm of salt with eight ounces of water.

_Use_ for foul ulcers and flabby wounds.

534. Cold Evaporating.

Add two drachms of Goulard's extract, and the same quant.i.ty of sulphuric ether to a pint of cold water.

_Use_ as lotion for contusions, sprains, inflamed parts, &c.

535. Hydrochlorate of Ammonia.

Dissolve two drachms of sal ammoniac in six ounces of water, then add an ounce of distilled vinegar and the same quant.i.ty of rectified spirit.

_Use_ as a refrigerant.

536. Yellow Lotion.

Dissolve one grain of corrosive sublimate in an ounce of lime water, taking care to bruise the crystals of the salt in order to a.s.sist its solution.

_Use_ as a detergent.

_Note_, that corrosive sublimate is a _violent and deadly poison_.

537. Black Wash.

Add half a drachm of calomel to four ounces of lime water, or eight grains to an ounce of lime water; shake well.