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formed of uric acid. This is certainly ex-ceedingly doubtful. But even supposingthat a uric concretion might be eventuallydissolved by it, no human stomach couldendure the enormous quantity that wouldbe necessary to be taken to produce anysensible effect upon it.

The usual dose of it is from two to fourounces, containing from two grains and ahalf to five or six grains of oxide. It istaken alone or with milk. Repeated toofrequently, it irritates and enfeebles the di-gestive organs.

It is also employed in injections, in chro-nic uretritis ; in lotions, to sluggish ulcers;in fomentations, to cancer, itch, tinea, andother diseases of the skin.

ABSORBENT MIXTÜRE. (BoRIES ; ELLIS)

of each, one ounce.

ter, 1Cow's Milk, JMix. — For one dose, to be taken everytwo hours.

Lime Water,Mix.

eight ounces.

lime water with cinchona.(Swediaur)

Lime Water,Infusion of Cinchona,

one pound,one ounce.

Mix.

This is a bad preparation. It is proposedas an application to ulcers and aphtha?.

ASTRINGENT FOMENTATION. (AUGUSTIN')

R. Quick Lime, two drams.

Myrrh.Boiling Water,

Digest for several days, and strain

one ounce,one pound.

LOTION FOR TINEA. (SPIELMANN)

R. Quick Lime, twelve ounces.

Ship-builder's Pitch (Poix navale),

eight ounces.Spring Water, seventy-two ounces.Boil together down to one half.

STIMULANT INJECTION.

Injeetio ad Fistulas, Lotio alcoholisata,(Swediaur)

R. Lime Water, \ ofeacl e i g ht ounces.

Alcohol, J

Mix.

The same author also gives another for-mula for eight ounces of lime water andfour of alcohol.

antacid elixir. (Hamb.)R. Extract of Quassia, one dram.

LINIMENT OF LIME WATER.

Linimentum Calcis seu calcicum seu ad Com-bustiones seu ex Aqua Calcis. (Dubl. ;Edinb. ; Amer.; Ant. ; Mil. Copen. ;Gall.; Ferr. ; Sard.; Suec ; Wur-ceb. ; Brugnatelli ; Coxe ; Cadetde Gassicourt ; Niemann ; Ellis ;Swediaur; Van Mons)

Linimentum Aquœ Calcis she OleumLini cum Calce. (Edinb.)

R

Lime Water,Linseed OilMix.

er, 7¡I. 1

of each,an equal part.

Linimentum Calcis. (Dubl.)

R. LimeAVater, } of each,

Olive Oil, j three fluid ounces.Mix.

R. Lime Water, three parts.

Olive Oil, one part.

Mix, and preserve from the contact ofair. (Van Mons)

Sard.; Wurceb. ; and Ellis prescribeone part of oil and four parts of limewater. — Gall. ; and Ferr. — one of oil andeight of lime water. — Niemann ; and Ca-det de Gassicourt — an equal part of each.— Ameb. ; Mil. Copen. ; Suec ; andCoxe — the same as Edinb. — Swediaur —one half of oil.

R. Quick Lime, one ounce.

Linseed Oil, three ounces.

Mucilage of Quince Seeds, two ounces.Mix. (Niemann)

This is a species of soap or oleo-uiarga-rate of lime. It has been extolled as an ap-plication to burns, and to certain obstinateherpetic; eruptions.

liniment of lime water with opium.

Linimentum ad Ambustiones cum Opio.(Mil. Copen.; Gall.; Ferr.; Suec ,Augustin)

R. Oil of Almonds, 1 f „„„, ■ ,<■ ,

Lime Water, ' | of each, half apound.

Sydenham's Laudanum, two drams.Mix. (Gall. ; Ferr.)R. Lime Water, of each

Linseed Oil, > „„ _„„ , ' .

Tincture of Opium, j an e 1 ual P art 'Mix. (Augustin)R. Lime Water, "1

Linseed Oil, j

Tincture of Opium, one dram.

Spirit of Turpentine, two drams.

Mix. (Mil. Copen. ; Suec.)

of each, one ounce.