A treatise on gonorrhoea virulenta, and lues venerea ... / [Benjamin Bell].

  • Benjamin Bell
Date:
1795
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    may be added to the fame quantity of water. Inftead of forty drops, forty-eight or fifty may be added to ten ounces of. water. 16: sh No, 33..R..Aq. fontan. 3 x. ~ es Tinétar. cantharid. gutt. Xx- ad xxx. M. The three following are prefcriptions for bougies. . No. 34. R. Emplaft. diachyl. fimpl. 3 iv. Cer. purifs. 3 ifs. Ol. oliv. op*. 3 iil. No. 35- R. Emplaft. commun, Spermat. cat. a a 3 1V. Ol. oliv. op’. 3 fs. Minii. 3 fs. M. No. 36. R Emplaft. commun, 3 vi. Cerz flave puriff. Spermat, cet. aa 3 ii. Ol. oliv. op’. 31. Antimon. crud. pp“. 3 fs. M. S. A. Any of thefe prefcriptions afford a good compofition for bougies. They require tobe flowly melted, and the different articles to be well mixed together. No. 34. isthe fimpleft and perhaps the beft, the red lead in No. 35. and antimony in No. 36, being added chiefly for the purpofe of afford- ing variety of colour, No. 37. is acompofition for bougies recommended by Mr, John Hunter*, and No- 38. by Mr. Sharpt. * No. 3. Take oil of olives three pints, Bees wax one pound, Red | lead a pound and a half. Let them be boiled together on a flow fire for fix hours. No. 38. R. Diachyl. cum pice burgund. 3 ii. Argent. viv. 3 i. Antimon. crud. pp“. 3 fs. The quickfilver to be previoufly diffolved in balfam.of fulphur, or in honey; and added to the plafter when melted in a moderate heat. Any of thefe compofitions, when boiled to a proper confiftence, will anfwer forthe formation of bougies, which is done in the following man- ner: While the liquid ftill continues warm, let a piece of fine old linen be dipped in it, taking care with a fpatula to cover the whole of it. If the melted liquor be of aproper heat, no more of the plafter will adhere to the linen than is neceflary ; but as air bubbles are apt to rife and pro- duce inequalities on the furface of the cloth, the fpatula made ufe of fhould be fomewhat warmer than the plafter, and by meansoft it the whole fhould be made as fmooth as poffible. The plafter might indeed be fpread entirely with the fpatula ; but this is not only atcended with more trouble, ‘but it does not cover the cloth with fufficient equality. * See Treatife om the Venereal Difeafe, p. 137. es + See Critical Enquiry by Samuel Sharp, F.. R. S. &e.