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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    [84] from five to ten grains night and morning. There is no reafon why this formula, which is given us by Mr. Bell of Edinburgh, fhould be preferred to any other, in which the quickfil. ver is merely divided by triture. MISTURA COPAIB.E CUM OLIBANO. R Balfami copa ba? unc. fs. Olibani drach. ij. Mucilaginis arabici gummi unc. ifs. Mellis defpumati unc. j. Aquae cinnamomi unc. v. The olibanum, powdered and mixed \vith the copaiba, is to be incorporated with the honev and mucilage, and the cinnamon water afterwards added. In the dofe of two or three table-fpoonfuls twice or thrice a day, this will be found of confiderable fervice in gleets, and in the latter ftage of gonorrhoea. In like manner the Canada balfam, balfam of tolu, and other fimilar remedies, may be advantagooufly compounded. MISTURA MYRRH/E COMPOSITA. Be Mellis rofae. Tin&uraj myrrh to fing. drach. ij. Aquae calcis unc. ifs. mifee. This mixture is chiefly calculated as an ap- plication to ulcers within the mouth, in which