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POTASSIUM.

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Emplastrum saponaceum. (Edinb.)

R. Semiviireous Oxide of Lead,

four parts.

Gum Plaster, two parts.

Soap, one part.

Mix the soap with the piasteis

melted together, and boil so as to

form a plaster.

Suec. pi'escribes eight parts of diachylonplaster, and one part of soap. — Lusit. — oneof plaster, and three of soap. — Coxe — sixof plaster, and one of soap. — Van Mons —ten parts of gum plaster, one half part ofolive oil, one part of white wax, and fourparts of white soap. — Lipp. — two parts ofgum plaster, and one part of Spanish soap.

CAMPHORATED SAPONACEOUS PLASTER.

Emplastrum saponatum seu Saponis campho-raium seu resolvens cum Sapone et Cam-phora. (Amst. ; Ant. ; Batav. ; Ba-var. ; Belc. ; Dan. ; Gall. ; Form.Hop. Fr. ; Fuld. ; Hann. ; Hass. ;Lipp. ; Olden. ; Pol. ; Borus. ; Ross. ;Sax. ; Brera ; Brugnatelli ; Piderit ;Spielmann ; Swediaur ; Van Mons)

R. Oil of Roses, twelve ounces.

Deutoxide of Lead, 1 of each,Subcarbonate of Lead, J six ounces.Boil, and add

Soap, four ounces.

Stir till cold, then add

Camphor triturated with a little Oil,

half an ounce.Mix. (Spielmann)R. Simple Diachylon Plaster,

three pounds.Yellow Wax, half a pound.

Soap, three ounces.

Melt together, and add

Camphor, half an ounce.

Mix. (Bata v. ; Belg.; Dan. ; Hann. ;Olden. ; Pol. ; Borus.)

Ant. directs ten grains of camphor to beadded to each ounce of simple saponaceousplaster. — Lipp. — one twenty-fourth. —Form. Hop. Fr. — one twenty-fifth and onefiftieth. — Van Mons — one forty-eighth. —Sax. — one part of camphor, two parts ofsoap, four of wax, and twenty-four of sim-ple plaster.R. Simple Diachylon Plaster,

one pound and a half.

Melt it over a slow fire, and add, con-stantly stirring,

Spanish Soap, scraped, four ounces.Camphor, triturated with a little Oil,half an ounce.Mix. (Hass. ; Piderit)

Amst. prescribes three pounds of plaster,half a pound of soap, and six drams of cam-phor. — Ross. — three pounds of plaster, halta pound of soap, and one ounce of camphor.— Fuld. — two ounces of plaster, one ounceof soap, and one dram of camphor. — Brug-natelli — six ounces of plaster, one ounceof soap, and one dram of camphor to eachpound. — Swediaur — one pound of plaster,one ounce of soap, and one dram of cam-phor. — Gall. — one pound of plaster, fiveounces of wax, and one ounce of camphor.— Brera — half a pound of plaster, fourounces of soap, and half an ounce of cam-phor.

>- of each, four parts.

Melt, and add

Soap, four parts.

Add to the mass when nearly cold

Camphor, triturated with an equalquantity of Oil,

one ninety-sixth part.Mix. (Bavar.)

R. Yellow Wax,Resin,

BALSAMIC plaster.

(Swediaur)five pounds.

R. Diachylon Plaster,Melt, and add

White Soap, one pound.

Camphor, three ounces.

Castor, triturated with Alcohol,

one ounce and a half.Mix.

OIL OP SOAP.

Oleum Saponis. (Bruns. ; Hisp. ; Fuld. ;Palat. ; Sard. ; Wirtem.)

R. Soap, one part.

Washed Sand, three parts.

Distil from a retort placed in a sand-bath,and rectify the oil upon ashes of vinetwigs. (Bruns. ; Fuld. ; Palat. ; Sard ;Wirtem. J

Hisp. directs one part of soap to be dis-tilled with one of pounded brick, and theoil to be re-distilled twice or thrice to ob-tain it limpid.

It is excitant, and was formerly extolledas a resolvent to ecchymoses, to appeasepain, and as a detergent to sordid ulcers.