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934. These remedies are used externally as local stimulants, to relieve deep-seated inflammations when other means cannot be employed, as they are more easily applied locally.
Take two drachms of scraped white soap, half a drachm of extract of henbane, and dissolve them by a gentle heat in six ounces of olive oil. Used in doses of two or three drachms at a time, for glandular enlargements which are painful and stubborn.
Add one ounce of strong liquid ammonia (Li-quoris ammo nice fortis) to two onnces of olive oil; shake them well together until they are properly mixed. Use. Employed as a stimulant in rheumatic pains, paralytic numbness, chronic glandular enlargements, lumbago, sciatica, etc.
Add six teaspoonfuls of oil of turpentine to the strong ammoniated liniment above. Use, for the diseases mentioned under the head of strong ammoniated liniment, and chronic affections of the knee and ankle-joints.
938. Lime and Oil. Take equal parts of common linseed-oil and lime-water (Liquor calcis), and shake well. Use. Applied to burns, scalds, sun-peelings, etc.
Take half an ounce of camphor, and dissolve it in two ounces of olive oil. Use, as a stimulant, soothing application in stubborn breasts, glandular enlargements, dropsy of the belly, and rheumatic pains.
Take three ounces and a half of soap-liniment, and half an ounce of tincture of Spanish flies: mix and shake well. Use, as a stimulant to chronic bruises, sprains, rheumatic pains, and indolent swellings.
Take two ounces and a half of resin cerate (ceratum re-sinae), and melt it by standing the ves-sel in hot water; then add one ounce and a half of oil of turpentine, and mix. Use, as a stimulant application to ulcers, burns, scalds, etc.
 
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