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

  • Lewis William, 1708-1781.
Date:
1789
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    UNGUENTUM ADIPIS SU- It Is alfo frequently ufed with ad- I ILL^. Lend. Ointment of hofs lard. Take of Prepared hog’s lard, two pounds; Rofe-water, three ounces. Beat the lard with the rofe-water until they be mixed ; then melt the mixture with a flow fire, and fet It apart that the water may fubfitie; after which, pour off the lard from the water, conftantly ftirring until it be cold. In the laft edition of the London pharmacopoeia, this was llyled Un- guentum fimplsx, the name given by the Edinburgh college to the follow- ing UNGUENTUM SIMPLEX. ^ Edin. Simple ointment. Take of Olive oil, five parts ; White wax, two parts. Both thefe ointments may be ufed for foftening the fl<In and heal- ing chaps. The lall is, however, preferable, as being more fteadily of one uniform confillence. For the fame reafon it Is alfo to be preferred as the bafis of other more compound- ed ointments. UNGUENTUM ex AERU- GINE. Edin. Ointment of verdegris. Take of Bafilicon ointment, fifteen parts; Verdegris, one part. This ointment Is ufed for clean- fing fores, and keeping down fun- gous flefh. Where ulcers continue .to run from a weaknefs in the vefltls of the part, the tonic powers of cop- per promii’e confiderable advantage. vantage In cafes of ophthalmia, de- '1 pending on fcrophula, where the ] palpebrte are principally affefted; 1 but when it Is to be thus applied, it 1 is in general requilite that it fliould 1 be fomewhat weakened by the ad- 1 ditlon of a proportion of fimple oint- I ment or hog’s lard. An ointment J fimilar to the above, and celebrated for the cure of fuch inftances of . ophthalmia, has long been fold under the name of Smellom's eye-falve. UNGUENTUM CALCIS HY- DRA RGYRI ALBiE. j Land. i Ointment of the nuhite calx of quick~ j fliver. Take of The white calx of quickfilver, one dram; Ointment of hog’s lard, one ounce and a half. Mix, and make an ointment. This Is a very elegant mercurial ointment, and frequently made ufq of in the cure of obftinate cutaneous aflPedlions. It is an Improvement of the Unguentum e mercurlo precipi- tate of the lafl. London pharmaco- poeia ; the precipitated fulphyr being thrown out of the compofitlon, and the quantity of mercury increafed. UNGUENTUM e QALCE ZINCI. Edin. Ointment of calx of zinc. Take of Simple liniment, fix parts ; Calx of zinc, one part. This ointment Is chiefly ufed in affeftions of the eye, particularly in thofe cafes where rednefs arifes ra- ther from relaxation than from active inflammation. UNv