The Edinburgh new dispensatory : ... Being an improvement upon the new dispensatory of Dr Lewis.

  • Lewis William, 1708-1781.
Date:
1789
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    was much more the efFedl of the To the melted litharge-plafter ad<l I Burgundy pitch than of any other the reft, powdered. • part of the compofition ; for when applied to very tender ll<in, it often This plafter had formerly in the produces even vefication, and in I.ondon pharmacopoeia the title of ; moft inftances operates as a rube- Emplajirum roborans, facient or emplaftrum callidum: mation of the complicated and ia^ and as far as it has any good effect judicious compofition deferibed in in headach, it is probable that its former pharmacopoeias, under the ] influence is to be explained on this title of Emplajlrum ad hetniam. | ground. Though far the moft elegant and | fimple, it is as effeftual for that pur- < EMPLASTRUM SAPONIS. Land. Soap-plajier. Take of Soap, half a pound ; Litharge-plafter, three pounds ; Mix the foap with the melted li- tharge-plafter, and boil them to the thicknefs pf a plafter. EMPLASTRUM SAPONA- CEUM. Edin. Saponaceous plajier. Take of Common plafter, four parts ; Gum plafter, two parts ; Caftile foap, fliced, one part. To the plalters, melteft together, add the foap; then boil for a little, fo as to form a plafter. 'T'hese plalters have been fuppo- fed to derive a refolvent power from the foap ; and in the laft, the ad- dition of the gums is fuppofed to promote the refolvent virtue of the foap : but it is a matter pf great doubt, whether they derive any ma- terial advantage from either addi- tion. EMPLASTRUM THURIS. Lend. Frankincettfe-plafler. Take of Erankincenfe, half a pound ; Dragon’s blood, three ounces ; Litharge-plafter, two pounds. pofe as any of the medicines of this kind. If conftantly worn with a proper bandage, it will, in children, frequently do fervice ; though, per- haps, not fo much from any ftrength- ening quality of the Ingredients, as from its being a foft, clofe, and ad- hefive covering It has been fup- pofed that plafters compofed of ftyptic medicines conftrlnge and ftrengthen the part to which they are applied, but oh ho very juft foundation ; for platters in general relax rather than aftringe, the unftu- ous ingredients necelTary in their compofition counterafting and de- stroying the effedl of the others. EMPLASTRUM DEFENSI- yUM, five ROBQRANS. Edin. DefenfivSi or Sirenglhening plajier. Take of Common plafter, twenty-four parts; White refin, fix parts; Yellow wax, Oil olive, each three parts ; Colcothar of vitriol, eight parts. Grind the colcothar with the oil, and then add it to the other in- gredients when they are melted. This plafter Is laid round the lips of wounds and ulcers over the other dreffings, for defending them frorq inflammation and a fluxion of hu- mours ; ■ which, however, as Mr ^harp very juftly obierves, plafters, oq