and let it repose for some minutes; decant the clear liquor. Add a nev water to the residue, triturate, and after suniciunu rest, again draw of the clear liquor. Repeat this washing and decanting a third time; add all the clear solutions together, and filter. To the liquid running through, add 2 oz. alcohol, 36°, in which 4 drops oil of rose and 4 drops of any other desired oil are dissolved. The solution, thus prepared, removes the fetid odor of diseased gums. The dose is half a tablespoonful in a tumbler of water, with which the gums are moistened daily by means of a sponge or brush. Keep the bottle always closely stoppered to retard decomposition. Pastilles for bad breath. Chloride of lime Vanilla candy Gum Arabic 5 drms. 3 drms. 5 drms. Make the lozenges into weights of 10 or 15 grains, and take one or two after smoking. The chloride of lime is used in solution (made as before), and the candy and gum are rubbed up with it. An addition of starch will rectify any excessive liquidity. CHAPTER LIX. SUNDRY REMEDIES FOR TRIFLING ACCIDENTS. Nipple liniment, by DR. SIGERBUNDI, Doruston. Aqueous extract of opium Fresh limewater 1 grain. 3 drms. Oil sweet almonds, fresh and cold pressed, 3 drms. Mix the whole, and preserve in a covered pot. The label should direct the application of this liniment by means of very fine lint, and that the nipples be covered with a piece of skin spread with wax, a hole being left open in the centre to permit the free passage of the milk. Pomade (for healing slight tumors). Spread upon sheepskin, and apply the plaster to the sore. Pomade souveraine, by LAFORET (for the cure of corns). Take 1 oz. black pitch, 1⁄2 oz. galbanum, and one scruple of sal ammoniac, dissolved in vinegar; add 11⁄2 drm. diachylon. Take only sufficient to cover the corn, and spread it upon a piece of sheepskin. After some days remove the plaster, and the corn comes with it. Céra fortifant (for the nails). Huile de Léontine (for the nails). Mix together Oil of bitter almonds Oil of tartar Essence of lemon drm. 1 scruple. 1 scruple. 1 scruple. 2 oz. 2 drms. 6 drops. Put up in small vials, and let the label direct a frequent application when the nails are weak or loosened. ENGLISH COURT-PLASTER. 1st Process.-Stretch upon a frame a piece of thin black silk, and with a camel's-hair brush pass over it three or more coats of isinglass, dissolved in boiling water. To give the silk an agreeable odor, when applying the last coat mix in a little compound tincture of benzoin with the isinglass. The color can be varied by taking silk of any desired shade. The intervals between the application of the coats should be sufficiently long to permit a thorough drying of each. 2d Process.-Upon silk stretched as above apply five coats of solution of gelatine, and then two of tincture of benzoin, mixed with a little tincture of fresh and pure turpentine, to give it pliancy. 3d Process.-Apply, as before, three to five priming coats, either of isinglass, fish-sound, or gelatine. The remaining layers are with a solution of black Peru balsam in alcohol. The silk thus prepared, though more liable to peel off, is much the most preferable. Collodion. This is a liquid adhesive plaster, to be applied with the brush upon sores and cuts. It rapidly loses its fluidity by evaporation, and forms an artificial cuticle, which renders it very useful for surgical purposes. It is made by dissolving gun-cotton in rectified ether, mixed with one-eighth its bulk of strong alcohol. A slight addition of Venice turpentine increases its adhesiveness. |