Pharmacopoeia chirurgica, or, Formulae for the use of surgeons : including, among a variety of remedies adopted in the private practice of the most eminent of the profession, all the principal formulae of the different hospitals.

  • Houlston, William, 1755-1815.
Date:
1794
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    it of a fuitable confiflence. It is fometimes employed as a flimulant, but moll eommonly as an antifeptic to mortified parts^ I CATAPLASMA CICUT^E., To the fomentum cicutae add as much oat- meal as will fufficiently thicken it. This poul- tice is employed in cancerous and fcrofulous cales and in moll ulcers of an inveterate cha- racter, to diminifh their fenfibility and amend the difcharge. The frefh herb, bruifed, was preferred for thefe purpofes, by Mr. Jultamond, and is perhaps more to be relied on. CATAPLASMA CUMINI. (Lj R Scminum cumini lib. j. Baccarum lauri. ■> Foliorum fcordii exficcatorum. Radicis ferpentarias virginianse fing^ unc. iij. Caryophyllorum aromaticorum unc. j'. Thefe ingredients are directed by the Col- lege to be powdered and formed into a cata- plafm with thrice their weight of honey. This remedy is feldom ufed at prefent, but was for- merly confidered as a ufeful antifeptic, and ap- plied, with that view, to mortified parts.