4935. Family Salvo

4935.    Family Salvo. Take tho root of yellow dock and dandelion, equal parts; add good proportion of celandine and plantain. Extract tho juices by steeping or pressing. Strain carefully, and simmer tho liquid with sweet cream, or fresh butter and mutton tallow, or sweet oil and mutton tallow. Simmer together until no appearance of the liquid remains. Before it is quite cold, put it into boxes. This is one of tho most soothing and healing preparations for burns, scalds, cuts, and sores of every every description.

4936. Salve for All Wounds

4936.    Salve for All Wounds. Take 1 pound hog's lard, 3 ounces white lead, 3 ounces red lead, 3 ounces bees' wax, 2 ounces black resin, and 4 ounces common turpentine; all these ingredients must bo put together in a pan, and boil 3/4 of an hour; the turpentine to bo put in just before it is done enough, and give it a gentle boil afterwards. This is an excellent cure for burns, sores, or ulcers, as it first draws, then heals afterwards; it is excellent for all wounds.

4937. Lard Ointment

4937.    Lard Ointment. Melt 2 pounds pure lard, add 3 fluid ounces rose-water, and beat them well together while hot. When cold, separate the congealed fat from tho water. This is simple lard ointment.

4938. Savine Ointment

4938.    Savine Ointment. Savine tops, dried and in fine powder, 1 drachm; ointment of white wax (simple ointment), 7 drachms; mix by trituration.

4939. Simple Ointment of White Wax

4939.      Simple Ointment of White Wax. Olive oil, 5i fluid ounces; white wax, 2 ounces; melted together and stirred while cooling.

4940. Spermaceti Ointment

4940.      Spermaceti Ointment. Melt together 5 ounces spermaceti, 14 drachms white wax, and about 1 pint olive oil. The article commonly sold as spermaceti ointment is composed of 1 pound spermaceti, 1/2 pound white wax, and from 3 to 6 pounds pure lard.

4941. Camphor Ointment

4941.    Camphor Ointment. Camphor, finely powdered, 1 ounce; lard, 2 ounces. Mix. It is designed to ripen indolent tumors.

4942. Compound Iodine Ointment

4942.     Compound Iodine Ointment. Mix 1 drachm iodide of potassium in very fine powder, with 2 ounces lard; then add 1/2 drachm iodine dissolved in 1 fluid drachm rectified spirit.

Fresh lard cannot always bo got, and as long as simple cerate is directed to bo made with white wax, an already rancid body, it happens very often that an ointment of iodide of potassium gets yellow, instead of being perfectly white. A few grains of hyposulphite of soda dissolved in a little water, added to such ointment, will have the effect of turning it snow-white.

4943. Compound Belladonna Ointment

4943.      Compound Belladonna Ointment. Mix 1 drachm fresh extract of belladonna with 7 drachms of compound iodine ointment. (See No. 4942 (Compound Iodine Ointment).) For dispersing glandular tumors, etc., which it is not desirable to mature.