4989. Pile Salve

4989.    Pile Salve. Take 1 scruple pow dered opium, 2 scruples flour of sulphur, and 1 ounce of simple cerate. (See No. 4932 (Simple Cerate).) Keep the affected parts well anointed. Be prudent in your diet.

4990. Salve for Sore Breasts

4990.    Salve for Sore Breasts. Take 1 pound tobacco, 1 pound spikenard, 4 pound of cumfrey, and boil them in 3 quarts chamber-lye till almost dry; squeeze out the juice, add to it pitch and bees' wax, and simmer it over a moderate heat to the consistence of salve. Apply it to the part affected.

4991. Iodide of Lead Ointment

4991.    Iodide of Lead Ointment. An ointment of iodide of lead composed of 4 parts iodide of lead, 4 parts chloride of ammonium, and 50 of lard, is either of a yellow or white color, according to the manner in which these ingredients are brought together. When rubbed together dry, the color of the mixture is yellow; but when the chloride of ammonium, in order to facilitate the mixing, is first liquefied in a small quantity of water before being added to the iodide of lead, the yellow color of the latter disappears, owing to the formation of two colorless salts, the chloride of lead and iodide of ammonium. It is well in cases like these to adhere strictly to the directions of the prescription. (Eymael.)

4992. Ingall's Iodoform Ointment

4992.     Ingall's Iodoform Ointment. Dissolve 4 drachm iodoform in sufficient rectified alcohol, and make into an ointment with 71/2 drachms lard. Iodoform is extensively and successfully used in the treatment of syphilitic ulcers and rupia. The above formula is the one adopted by Dr. Ingalls, attending surgeon of the Boston city hospital.

4993. Carbolic Cerate

4993.    Carbolic Cerate. Melt together 5 ounces lard, and 24 ounces white wax; add 4 ounce balsam of fir, and when it begins to cool, stir in 4 ounce carbolic acid. The addition of balsam fir to this preparation corrects the disagreeable odor of the acid, and renders it slightly adhesive, which is quite desirable when used as a dressing for burns, old sores, etc.. (See No. 4996 (Carbolic Salve).)

4994. Ointment of Tannate of Manganese

4994.    Ointment of Tannate of Manganese. Mix 3 grains tannate of manganese with 1 troy ounce cold cream. {See No. 1125 (Cold Cream).) This is a good application for bad wounds.

4995. Tartar Emetic Ointment

4995.    Tartar Emetic Ointment. Take 2 drachms potassio-tartrate of antimony, and rub it well into 1 ounce lard. This will produce an eruption on the skin very similar to small-pox in appearance.

4996. Carbolic Salve

4996.     Carbolic Salve. There are different formulae recommended for this salve, containing different amounts of carbolic acid; the character of the disease will determine which to use. The carbolic acid employed is the crystallized article, sold in bottles, and taken out by wanning the latter in hot water, or the fluid resulting from the crystals, which are melted in warm weather, or are dissolved by absorbing a little water, when the bottles are not perfectly stoppered.

I.  Take carbolic acid, 1/2 fluid drachm, and lard, 1 ounce. Triturate together in a porcelain mortar.

II.  Take carbolic acid, 1 fluid drachm, and lard, 3 ounces. Melt the lard at a gentle heat, add the carbolic acid, and triturate until the mixture is cold.

III.   Take carbolic acid, 1 fluid drachm, and ointment of white wax (see No. 4939 (Simple Ointment of White Wax)), 7 drachms. Prepare as No. II. (See No. 4993 (Carbolic Cerate).)