Domestic medicine : or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners. ... To which are now added, some important observations concerning sea-bathing, and the use of the mineral waters; with many other additions / by William Buchan.

  • Buchan William, 1729-1805.
Date:
1803
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Credit: Domestic medicine : or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners. ... To which are now added, some important observations concerning sea-bathing, and the use of the mineral waters; with many other additions / by William Buchan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Mercurial Ointments Take of quickfilver, two ounces; hogs’ lard, three ounces; mutton fuet, one ounce. Rub the quickfilve'' with an ounce of the hogs’ lard in a warm mortar, till the globules be perfedily extinguiflied ; then rub it up with the reft of the lard and fuet, previoufly melted together. T he principal intention Of this ointment is to convey mer- cury into the body by being rubbed upon the fkin. Ointment of Sulphur. Take of hogs’ lard prepared, four ounces; flowers of ful- phur, an ounce and a half; crude fal ammoniac, two drachms ; efl'ence of lemon, ten or twelve drops. Make them into an ointment. This ointment, rubbed upon the parts afFe£fed, will generally cure the itch. It is both the fafeft and beft application for that purpofe, and, when made in this way, has no difagreeable fmell. Ointment fr Difeafes of the Skin. Take of the ointment, commonly called unguentum citrinunty a drachm and a half ; flour of brimftone and powder of helle- bore, of each an ounce; hogs’lard, three ounces; clTcnce of lemon, or oil of thyme, from twenty to thirty drops,, to corredl the ofFenfrvenefs of the fmell. Make them into an ointment. I have not only known many ordinary aftedlions of the fkin cured by this ointment, but even fome of a very malignant na- ture, and approaching to leprofy. White Ointment. Take of olive oil, one pint; white wax and fpermaceti, of each three ounces. Melt them with a gentle heat, and keep them conftantly and bnfkly ftirring together, till quite cold. If two dracbms of camphor, previoufly rubbed with a fmall quantity of oil, be added to the above, it will make the pyhita camphorated Ointment. Liniment for Burns. Take equal parts of blorence oil, or of frelh drawn linfeed oil, and lime water ; fhake them well together in a wide mouth- ed bottle, fo as to form a liniment. This is found to be an exceeding proper application for recent fcalds or burns. It may either be fpread upon a cloth, or the parts afie£led may be anointed with it twice or thrice a-d.iy. fi hits