Directions for the medicine chest.

Date:
1795
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Directions for the medicine chest. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or tow—proper to drefs wounds, fores, &c. and upon rag for blitters. No. XIV. CERATE. Spread upon lint, tow, or rag—proper to fkin wounds, fores, broken fhins, fcalds, and burns. No. XV. WHITE OINTMENT. Spread upon fine rag—proper for burns, fcalds, and inflammations of the fkin. No. XVI. ITCH OINTMENT. Rub the body all over at bed-time, let it remain three days, wafli all clean off with foap and warm water, and change the linen ; the bignefs of a nut of No. XVII. added to it makes it more effe&ual. / No. XVII. MERCURIAL OINTMENT. The bignefs of a nut rubbed upon the infiide of the thighs every night at bed time—proper in pox, mixed with pomatum, it kills vermin, &c. No. XVIII. CORDIAL ELECTUARY. The bignefs of a nutmeg taken off the point of a knife—proper in aggies after vomits, in fever when refi is wanting, in gripes, or loofenefs. No. XIX. CONSERVE. A tea-fpoonful of this and No. 11. mixed and taken, fwallowing it