This section is from the book "The Druggist's General Receipt Book", by Henry Beasley. Also available from Amazon: The druggist's general receipt book.
1. Resin cerate 1 oz., cantharides finely powdered 3 drs., oil of turpentine 2 drs.; for setons. - Clater.
2. Lard 12 oz., resin 4 oz.; melt together, and when sufficiently cool, add oil of turpentine 4 oz., powdered cantharides 5 oz.; stir till cold: to be rubbed in after removing the hair. - Clater.
(See also Lotions, above.)
1. Sulphur 1 ft, common turpentine 4 oz., mercurial ointment 2 oz., linseed oil a pint. Melt the turpentine with the oil, and when nearly cold, stir in the sulphur, and afterwards the mercurial ointment. - Youatt,
Note. - Cattle are easily salivated, and greatly weakened by it. Mercurials should therefore he used with great caution.
2. Sulphur 1
strong mercurial ointment 2 oz., common turpentine 1/2
lard 1 1/2
- Clater.
3. French Liniment. Olive oil a pint, sulphur 4 oz., heat till the oil becomes coloured by the sulphur; remove from the fire, and when nearly cold, add 4 oz. of oil of turpentine, apply with a feather.
4. Lard 2
; melt and add oil of turpentine 8 oz., sulphuric acid 2 oz., sulphur vivum 8 oz.; stir till cold.
5. Mange Liniment. Sulphur vivum finely powdered 4 oz., train oil 12 oz., oil of turpentine 4 oz.; mix. - White.
 
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