Pharmacopoeia chirurgica, or, Formulae for the use of surgeons : including, among a variety of remedies adopted in the private practice of the most eminent of the profession, all the principal formulae of the different hospitals.

  • Houlston, William, 1755-1815
Date:
1794
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    [ 74] This liniment and its ufes have been long known. The greateft obje&ion to it is the un- cleanlinefs attending its application. LINIMENTUM AMMONIdE FOR- TIUS. (L) R Aqua: ammoniac purac unc. j. Olei olivae unc. ij. mifee. This differs from the foregoing in no refpeff, but in point of flrength. LINIMENTUM AMMONI/E OPIATUM. R Opii purificati unc. ifs. Spiritus vinofi tenuioris lib. j. Aqua: ammonia: purae unc. ij. Thefe ingredients are to be digefled together in a gentle heat till the opium is diffolved. This is a valuable remedy in rigid and painful fwellings of the articulations. LINIMENTUM BITUMINIS AMMONIA- TUM. R Petrolei barbadenfis unc. ifs. Aqua: ammonia pura: unc. fs. mifee. This is a remedy employed by Dr. Kirk- land in difeales of the hip and other joints. He confiders the petroleum as “ a mod pow- erful difl'olver of thickened lymph,^ and, as a