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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.

Liniments.

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This liniment is stimulant and discutient. It is employedas an embrocation to parts affected with chronic venereal pains,nodes, and tophi; to indolent swellings, and to discuss morbidcollections of fluid. One drachm should be rubbed on the af-fected part night and morning. When largely used, it sali-vates sooner than mercurial ointment.

LINIMEN'TUM SAPO'NIS COMPOS'ITUM. Lond.Compound Soap Liniment. \

" Take of hard soap, three ounces ; camphor, an ounce; spiritof rosemary, a pint. Dissolve the camphor in the spirit, thenadd the soap, and macerate in the heat of a sand-bath, untilthey be dissolved."

TlNCTURA SAPONIS CaMPHORATA ; VulgO, LlNIMENTUM

saponaceum. Edin. Camphorated Tincture of Soap : com-monly called, Liniment of Soap.

"Take of hard soap sliced, four ounces; camphor, two ounces-,volatile oil of rosemary, half an ounce; alcohol, two pounds.Digest the soap in the alcohol for three days, then add thecamphor and the oil, frequently shaking the mixture."

These preparations are stimulant and anodyne, and may beadvantageously applied against local pains, and in bruises rub-bed upon the parts.

TlNCTURA SAPONIS ET OPII; vulgo, LlNIMEN-TUM ANODYNUM. Edin. Tincture of Soap and Opium;commonly called Anodyne Liniment.

" Take of hard soap sliced 5< /cw ounces; opium, one ounce;camphor, two ounces ; oil of rosemary, half an ounce; alcohol,two pounds. Digest the soap in the alcohol for three days, thento the strained solution add the camphor and the oil, frequentlyshaking the mixture."

The addition of the opium to the soap liniment, renders it,in many cases of rheumatism and local pains, more useful thanihe simple liniment.

LlNIMENTUM TEREBINTHINiE. Lond. lurpentmeLiniment.

" Take of cerate of resin, a pound; oil of turpentine, half apint. Melt the cerate, then add to it the oil of turpentine, andmix thein."

This liniment was introduced into practice by Dr. Kentish,at that time a surgeon in Newcastle, as a dressing to burnsimmediately alter they happen, and until the loosening of theeschars. Dr. Kentish's plan was first to bathe the parts withwarm oil of turpentine, and then to apply over them plasters,thickly spread, of this liniment; at the same time that he sup-

1 L'i.'iiincntum saponaceum, P. L. 1745. Kampferliiiijnent (<?4S B

 
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