5278. Devil Plaster

5278.    Devil Plaster. Cases of severe wounds are said to have healed without suppuration after 17 or more days by the use of this plaster. It has also been successfully applied to fractures and tumors. Take 15 drachms black pitch, 15 drachms dry resin, 21/2 drachms dried earth-worms in powder, 8 drachms essential oil of turpentine, and 1 scruple crude alum. Mix well. This plaster was much used by an old surgeon of Morello, and by his sons, for the cure of wounds without the loss of substance. The composition, which they kept secret, is now published to the world by M. Escorihuela. He obtained the secret from one of the heirs.

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5279. Wallace's Pills

5279.    Wallace's Pills. Take socotrine aloes, scammony, and soap, all in powder, blue mass and compound extract of colocynth, 1 scruple each, to make 20 pills.

5280. Canada Liniment

5280.    Canada Liniment. Take water of ammonia, olive oil, oil of turpentine, and alcohol, of each 1 ounce; oil of peppermint, 1/2 ounce. Mix.

5281. St. John Long's Liniment

5281.      St. John Long's Liniment. White and yolk of 1 egg; oil of turpentine, 6 ounces; acetic acid, 1 ounce; oil of lemon, 12 drops; and rose-water, 5 ounces. Mix.

5282. Brodie's Liniment

5282.    Brodie's Liniment. Take of sulphuric acid, 1 drachm; olive oil and oil of turpentine, of each 1 ounce. Add the acid gradually to the olive oil, stirring it in a mortar ; when cool, add the oil of turpentine and mix.

5283. Good Old Samaritan Liniment

5283.    Good Old Samaritan Liniment. Mix together 2 gallons alcohol, 12 ounces oil origanum, 4 ounces oil hemlock, and 2 ounces each of oil of cedar, balsam of fir, spearmint, balsam of life (see No. 5112 (Hoffmann's Life Balsam)), oil of sassafras, oil of wintergreen, spirits of turpentine, and sulphuric ether. Mix.

5284. Physic's Issue Ointment

5284. Physic's Issue Ointment. Powdered cantharides, 1/2 ounce; rose water, 2 fluid ounces; tartar emetic, 15 grains. Apply heat and evaporate the rose-water one-half; strain, and add olive oil, 3 ounces; white wax, 11/2 ounces; spermaceti, 1 ounce. Mix, and apply a gentle heat until all the water has been driven off. "When the manipulations have been conducted with care, the cerate is light in color.

5285. Beach's Black Plaster or Healing Salve

5285.    Beach's Black Plaster or Healing Salve. Take of olive oil, 3 quarts; common resin, 3 ounces; bees'-wax, 3 ounces. Melt these articles together, and raise the oil almost to boiling heat; then gradually add of pulverized red lead 21/2 pounds, if in the summer; if in the winter, 1/4 pound less. In a short time after the lead is taken up by the oil, and the mixture becomes brown or a shining black, remove from the fire, and, when nearly cold, add 1/2 ounce pulverized camphor.