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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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Liniments.

part III.

ported the strength with wine, opium, and cordials. After thelife of the parts appeared to be restored, purges were given, thecordials omitted, and mild emoliient dressings applied.' Wehave had several opportunities of witnessing the good effects ofthis plan of treatment.

CATAPLASMATA.

Cataplasms.,

Cataplasms are in general extemporaneous preparations:but the two following formulas are introduced into the Phar-macopoeias to fix the proportions of the ingredients.

CATAPLASMA FERMENTI. Loud. Yeast Cataplasm.

" Take of flour, a pound ; yeast of beer, half a pint. Mix,and expose the mixture to a gentle heat, until it begins toswell.", .

The inflation is produced by the extrication of carbonicacid gas, on which the efficacy of the cataplasm depends; andwhich is evolved by the heat applied to the mixture excitingthe fermentative process. In this state it is applied to painful,gangrenous, or foul ulcers; and soon corrects thefcetor of thedischarge, while at the same time it hastens the sloughing ofthe sores "

CATAPLASMA SINAPIS. Lond. Cataplasm of Mus-tard.

" Take of mustard seed, linseed, of each in powder half apound; hot vinegar, a sivfficient quantity. Mix them to thethickness of a cataplasm."

Cataplasma Sinapeos. Dub. Mustard Cataplasm.

" Take of mustard seed in powder, crumb of bread, of eachhalf a pound; vinegar, a sivfficient quantity. Mix them, so asto make a cataplasm. This preparation may be rendered moreacrid by adding two ounces of horse-radish finely scraped."

These cataplasms are powerful local stimulants, and robe-,facients. They are to be spread on cloths to the thickness ofabout half an inch, and applied to the soles of the feet, in thelow stage of typhus fever, particularly when stupor or deliriumis present; and in apoplexy, coma, and other cases in whichthere is a great determination to the head. Their rubefacienteffects are very quickly produced, and often so powerfully, as toraise blisters on the part.

» Essays on Burns, &c. by Edward Kentish, 1797 and 1800.

 
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