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The Edinburgh new Dispensatory : containing 1. The Elements of pharmaceutical Chemistry ; 2. The Materia Medica; or the natural, pharmaceutical and medical History, or the Substances employed in Medicine ; 3. The pharmaceutical Preparations and Compositions ; including Translations of the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia published in 1805, of the Dublin Pharmacopoeia in 1807, and of the London Pharmacopoeia in 1815
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Preparations and Compositions. Part III.

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combines much more easily and intimately with the oil thanthe carbonate of ammonia used in the last. If the carbonatebe employed with the view of rendering the preparation lessstimulating, the same end will be more scientifically obtain-ed, by increasing the proportion of oil mixed with pure am-monia. The two first of these liniments differ greatly inpoint of strength, the proportion of water of ammonia in thefirst being as 1 to 8, and the second as 1 to 2.

Medical use. —They are frequently used externally as sti-mulants and rubefacients. In inflammatory sore throats, apiece of flannel moistened with these soaps, applied to thethroat, and renewed every four or five hours, is one of themost efficacious remedies. By means of this warm stimula-ting application, the neck, and sometimes the whole body, isput into a sweat, which, after bleeding, either carries oft' orlessens the inflammation. When too strong, or too liberallyapplied, they sometimes occasion inflammation, and even ex-cite blisters. Where the skin cannot bear their acrimony, alarger proportion of oil may be u>ed.

But the first of these preparations is even sometimes usedinternally, made into a mixture with syrup and some aromaticwater. A drachm or two taken in this manner, three or fourtimes a-day, is a powerful remedy in some kinds of catarrhand sore throat.

LlNIMENTUM AQUJE CALCIS, Sive OLEUM LINI CUM CALCE.

Ed.

LlNIMENTUM CALCIS. Dub.

Liniment of Lime Water , or Linseed OH with Lime.Take of

Linseed oil (olive oil, Dub.),

Lime-water, of each equal parts (three ounces by measure,Dub.).Mix them (by shaking them together, Dub.)

This liniment, commonly called Carron Oil, is extremelyuseful in cases of scalds or burns, being singularly efficaciousin preventing, if applied in time, the inflammation subsequentto these; or even in removing it, after it has come on.

It is also a species of soap, and might be called Soap ofLime, although it probably contains a great excess of oil.

Oleum camphoratum. Ed. Dub.Camphorated Oil.Take of

Olive oil, two ounces, (by measure, Dub.) ..

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