5295. Berthold's Chilblain Wash

5295.  Berthold's Chilblain Wash. Boil for 15 minutes 1$ ounces bruised nut-galls in £ pint water, and strain. Apply to the chilblains 2 or 3 times a day. Tannic acid dissolved in glycerine has a very similar effect, but in a neater form for application.

5296. Lapis Divinus

5296.    Lapis Divinus. This preparation, called also cuprum aluminatum, is the pierre divine of the French codex. It is made by mixing in powder, 3 ounces each of sulphate of copper, nitrate of potassa, and alum; heating the mixture in a crucible so as to produce watery fusion; then mixing in 1 drachm powdered camphor; and finally pouring out the whole on an oiled stone to congeal. The mass, when cold, is broken into pieces, and kept in a well-stopped bottle. "When this preparation is used as an eye lotion, a filtered solution is made, of the average strength of 30 grains to a pint of water.

5297. Lapis Miraculosus

5297.    Lapis Miraculosus. Fuse together sulphate of copper, 3 parts; sulphate of iron, 6 parts; verdigris and alum, of each 1 part; sal-ammoniac, 1/2 part. It is used for ulcers only.

5298. Biett's Solution

5298.    Biett's Solution. This is a solution of 1 grain of arseniate (not arsenite) of ammonia in 1 troy ounce of water. It is not as safe a preparation as either Fowler's or Pearson's solution, owing to the ready decomposition of the ammonia salt.

5299. Pearson's Arsenical Solution

5299.    Pearson's Arsenical Solution. This is an aqueous solution of arsenite of soda, containing 1 grain of the salt in a fluid ounce.

5300. Sampson's New York Pills

5300.    Sampson's New York Pills. The 11/2 grain pills consist of powdered coca, 25; extract of coca, 30; powdered iron, 35 parts.

5301. Oil of Stone

5301.    Oil of Stone. Take crude American petroleum, and Barbadoes petroleum, of each 2 pints; oil of turpentine, 6 pints.

5302. Chelsea Pensioner

5302.    Chelsea Pensioner. Take powdered rhubarb, 2 drachms; cream of tartar, 1 ounce; guaiacum, 1 drachm; sulphur, 2 ounces; 1 nutmeg grated fine; clarified honey, 16 ounces. Mix. Dose, 2 tea-spoonfuls night and morning. A very good remedy for chronic rheumatism.

5303. Indian Cathartic Pills

5303.    Indian Cathartic Pills. Reduce to a fine powder, 1 ounce each aloes and gamboge; 1/4 ounce each mandrake, blood-root, and myrrh; 11/2 drachms camphor {see No. 4358 (To Pulverize Camphor)) and cayenne; with 4 ounces ginger. Mix thoroughly and make into ordinary-sized pills with thick mucilage. Dose, 2 to 4 pills.

5304. Turlington's Balsam

5304.    Turlington's Balsam is much like the compound tincture of benzoin of the Pharmacopoeia of the U. S., though it is somewhat more complicated. To make it, take benzoin, 12 ounces; liquid storax, 4 ounces; balsam of Peru, 2 ounces; myrrh and aloes, each 1 ounce; balsam of tolu and extract of liquorice, each 4 ounces; angelica root, 1/2 ounce; alcohol, 8 pints. Digest for 10 days, and strain.