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The London Dispensatory, containing : 1. the Elements of Pharmacy ; 2. the botanical Description, natural History, chemical Analysis, and medicinal Properties of the Substances of the Materia Medica ; 3. the pharmaceutical Preparations and Compositions of the Pharmacopoeias of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Colleges of Physicians ; the Whole forming a Practical Synopsis of Materia Medica, Pharmacy, and Therepeutics
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PART III.

Plasters.

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Officinal preparation. Emplastrum Lyttcs. L.

EMPLASTRUM CUMINI. Lond. Cumin Plaster.

" Take of cumin seeds, carraway seeds, laurel berries, ofeach three ounces ; dried pitch, three pounds; yellow wax, threeounces. Melt the pitch and the wax together, then add theother ingredients in powder, and mix."

This plaster is stimulant and discutient. It is applied to thehypogastric region in flatulence and a cold feeling of the bow-els, and to indolent tumours.

EMPLASTRUM GALBANI COMPOSITUM. Lond.Compound Galbanum Plaster.

" Take of purified galbanum, eight ounces; plaster of lead,three pounds ; common turpentine, ten drachms ; resin of thespruce-fir powdered, three ounces. Having melted the galba-num and the turpentine together, mix in first the resin, andthen the plaster of lead previously melted by a slow fire, andmix the whole together."

Emplastrum gummosum. Edin. Gum Plaster.

" Take of plaster of semivitreous oxide of lead, eight parts ;ammoniac gum-resin, galbanum, yellow wax, of each one part.Add the gum resins to the melted plaster and wax, and mix."

Emplastrum Galbani. Dub. Plaster of Galbanum.

" Take of litharge plaster, two pounds ; galbanum, half apound ; yellow wax sliced, four ounces. To the galbanummelted by heat add the litharge plaster and the wax; then meltthe whole together by a gentle heat."

These plasters are stimulant and suppurative. They are ap-plied with advantage to scrophulous tumours; to joints whichhave been long affected with arthritic pains; and to the loinsin rickets. As a suppurative they are applied to indolent tu-mours; and to reduce the induration which often remainsaround abscesses, after they are discharged.

EMPLASTRUM HYDRARGYRI. Lond. MercurialPlaster. 1

" Take of purified mercury, three ounces ; sulphureted oil,a fluid drachm,■ plaster of lead, a pound. Rub the mercurywith the sulphureted oil until the globules disappear; then addby degrees the lead plaster melted, and mix the whole."

Edinburgh.

" Take of olive oil, resin, of each one part ■, mercury, threeparts ; plaster of semivitreous oxide of lead, six parts. Rubthe mercury with the oil and the resin previously melted to-gether and cooled, until the globules disappear ; then addgradually the plaster of semivitreous oxide of lead melted, andlet the whole be carefully mixed together."

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