4961. Tobacco Ointment

4961.     Tobacco Ointment. Fresh tobacco leaves, chopped small, 1 ounce; lard, 1 pound; boil till crisp, and strain through lime. Used for ringworm, irritable ulcers, and other diseases of the skin. It should bo used with caution.

4962. Salt Rheum Ointment

4962.   Salt Rheum Ointment. Mix in an earthen vessel, 1 ounce aqua-fortis, with 1 ounce quicksilver; when effervescence has ceased, incorporate with it 1 pound lard and 1 ounce dissolved hard soap; then work into the mixture 1 ounce prepared chalk and £ table-spoonful spirits of turpentine.

4963. Magnetic Ointment

4963.     Magnetic Ointment. Lard, raisins cut in pieces, and fine-cut tobacco, equal weights; simmer well together, then strain and press out all from the dregs. This is an excellent ointment for salt-rheum and other skin diseases. It is also good for piles, bruises, and cuts.

4964. Basilicon Ointment

4964. Basilicon Ointment. Take 10 ounces resin, 4 ounces yellow wax, and 16 ounces lard; melt them together, strain through muslin, and stir constantly until cool. This is the resin ointment of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia. The British officinal preparation contains only 8 ounces resin, and substitutes simple ointment for the lard.

4965. Yellow Basilicon Ointment

4965.     Yellow Basilicon Ointment. Yellow wax, 8 ounces; burgundy pitch, 3 ounces; Venice turpentine, 4 ounces; linseed oil, 10 ounces. First melt the resin, to which add the wax and the burgundy pitch. When the whole is melted, remove from the fire, and slowly put in the oil, stirring well till it is cold. For healing cuts, abscesses, etc..

4966. Black Basilicon Ointment

4966.     Black Basilicon Ointment. Black basilicon, yellow wax, and yellow resin, 10 ounces; common pitch, 5 ounces. Melt as before, and add 10 ounces linseed oil when taken from the fire.

4967. Green Basilicon Ointment

4967.      Green Basilicon Ointment. Yellow wax and yellow resin, of each 3 ounces ; Venice turpentine, 6 ounces; powdered verdigris, 1 ounce; lard, 6 ounces. Melt first the resin, etc., as before. Very efficacious in healing cuts, abscesses, and local affections of any kind.

4968. Saturnine Cerate

4968.      Saturnine Cerate. Powdered acetate of lead, 2 drachms; white wax, 2 ounces ; olive oil, 1/2 pint. Melt the wax in the oil, and add gradually the acetate of lead, separately rubbed down with a portion of the oil reserved for that purpose.

4969. Hemlock Salve

4969.    Hemlock Salve. Hemlock ointment, 12 ounces; spermaceti, 2 ounces; white wax, 3 ounces; melt the last two, then add them to the first, softened by a gentle heat. Used for inveterate cancerous, scrofulous, and other sores.

4970. Green Stick Salve

4970.   Green Stick Salve. According to the American Dispensatory, this is prepared by taking white gum turpentine, bayberry wax, of each 2 ounces; melt together, strain, and stir till cold; adding olive oil will give it the consistence of an ointment.