Hargyri composita aqua. See Lotio hydrargyri Acetati.

Ceratum saponis is, strictly speaking, a preparation of litharge, and is made by boiling a pound of litharge with a gallon of vinegar over a slow fire, constantly stirring it till it thickens; then adding ten ounces of yellow wax, eight ounces of soap, and a pint of olive oil. Collyrium lithargyri acetati. - 1. Let ten drops of the water of acetated litharge be added to four ounces of rose water; 2. To the above let twenty drops of camphorated spirit be added; but mix the spirit with the acetated litharge before the water, which must be added afterwards, to prevent the camphor from separating.

Linimentum lithargyri compositum.- Unguenti lithargyri cum aceto ss. camph. gr. viij. cerussae acetatae gr. xvi. opii pulverizati gr. viij. m. with this the inflamed edges of the eye lids are sometimes ordered to be anointed at bed time.

Lotio lithargyri acelati camphorati. See Ambusta.

Emplaxtrum lithargyri. See Emplastrum Commune, and Emplastrum.

Lotio lithargyri acetati, is made by adding one ounce of rectified spirit of wine, to two pints of distilled water, mixed with two drachms of the water of acetated litharge; two drachms of proof spirit, added to the same quantities of the other ingredients, forms the aq. lithargyri acetati composita of the London Pharmacopoeia.

Cataplasma lithargyri acetati. See Plumbum.

Ceratum lithargyri.- Emplastri lithargyri; adipis suillae aa iv. cerae flavae 3 ss. colliquantur, et quando fere frigida fiat mixtura, adjiciantur aquae lithargyri acetati ij. agitentur simul donec frigescant. For superficial sores, or ulcers whose edges are inflamed, this application is much recommended.

Unguentum lithargyri acetati, made by adding half a drachm of the aqua lithargyri acetati to an ounce of unguentum cerae, is applied to small ulcers, whose edges are in a state of inflammation, and preferred to the unguentum cerussae acetatae, because it is more readily made, and does not soon grow rancid. See Nutritum Unguentum.

Unguentum lithargyri compositum.- Emplast. li-tharg. lb ss. adipis suillae pp. iv. olei olivae, unguenti cerae, aa vi. aceti uncias quatuor; aquae lithargyri acetati j. After the unctuous ingredients are melted together and suffered to cool, the water of acetated litharge, and the vinegar, are to be gradually incorporated. This ointment is applied with great effect in inflammations of the skin.

Ceratum lithragyri acetati.-take water of acetated litharge, two ounces and an half by measure; yellow wax, four ounces; olive oil, nine ounces by measure; camphor, half a drachm: rub the camphor with a little of the oil: melt the wax with the remaining oil; and, as soon as the mixture begins to thicken, pour in by degrees the water of the acetated litharge, and stir constantly till it is cold: then mix the camphor previously rubbed with oil. Ph. Lond. 1788.