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the turpentine, and mix. It is applied after bathing the parts withwarm oil of turpentine to recent burns, till the eschars loosen.(Kentish.)

Linimentum TuTia:. Tutty Liniment. Take Jj of prepared tutty,and enough of honey of roses to make it of the consistence of treacle.

Linimentum Volatile. See Linim. Amjion.

Linimentum Zinci Sulphatis. Take 9j of sulphate of zinc in finepowder, ~ss of prepared lard ; mix, and apply to the eyelids in in-dolent ophthalmia.Or, Take jss of the oxide of zinc, §j of spermaceti ointment, 3j ofcalomel j mix. (Ware.)

Lini Usitatissimi Semina. L. E. D. P. Linseed, or Flax-seed. Ithas little taste or smell, and gives out oil on pressure, and mucilageby decoction. It is ground into the form of meal, which is used incataplasms to allay inflammation and recent wounds. (JohnHunter.)Enters into Ol. Lini. L. E. D.

Linum Catharticum. L. P. Purging Flax. Laverock Lint. A na-tive plant, common on dry and barren pastures. It is somewhatacrid and bitter, and is purgative and diuretic in doses of ^j or moreof the powder in nephritis, ascitis, &c, or in form of infusion, Jij toOj of water.

Lipsalve. Put ^viij of good olive oil into a wide-mouthed bottle, and§ij of the bloomy parts of alkanet root; stop the bottle, and set it inthe heat of the sun till it be of a fine crimson colour; strain the oilclear into a pipkin with §iij each of fine white wax, and fresh well-cleaned mutton or lamb suet; melt the whole by a slow fire, andwhen taken off add 40 drops of oil of rhodium or lavender, and pourit into small pots.White Lipsalve is made the same way by leaving out the alkanet root.

Liqueurs are sweet drams prepared with sugar, spirit, and flavouringingredients, sometimes distilled, sometimes mixed, and in almostendless variety. See Anisette, Cedrat, Eau, Huile, Kirch-wasser, Ratafia, &c.

Liqueur de Pressarin, a foreign nostrum, prepared by taking §jeach of supertartrate of potass and of the precipitate arising fromadding carbonate of potass to mercury dissolved in nitrous acid, anddissolving these in Oijss of distilled water. Dilute 5J of this withOj of distilled water, and take Jij for a dose thrice a day.

Liquid Amber. See Styrax Liquida. P.

Liquid Soap. Take ftij of the best Alicant or Joppa soap, scrape itvery fine, and put it into a gallon of the best spirits of wine, withhalf an ounce of good rosemary or lavender oil. Set the bottle in