Ching’s Worm Lozenges.—Each lozenge contains 1 grain of calomel; the rest white sugar and tragacanth, with saffron as a colouring matter.
Storey’s Worm Cakes.—Each cake 2 grains of calomel, 2 grains of cinnabar, 6 grains of jalap, 5 grains of ginger, and the remainder sugar and water.
Wright’s Pearl Ointment is said to be made up of 8 ozs. of white precipitate rubbed to a cream in 1 pint of Goulard’s extract, and to the mixture is added 7 lbs. of white wax and 10 lbs. of olive oil.
Keyser’s Pills.—The receipt for these pills is—red oxide of mercury 11⁄2 oz., distilled vinegar (dilute acetic acid) 1 pint; dissolve, add to the resulting solution manna 2 lbs., and triturate for a long time before the fire, until a proper consistence is attained; lastly, divide the mass into pills of 11⁄2 grain each.
Mitchell’s Pills.—Each pill contains aloes ·8 grain, rhubarb 1·6 grain, calomel ·16 grain, tartar emetic ·05 grain.
Many Antibilious Pills will be found to contain calomel, a few mercury in a finely divided state.
§ 833. Mercury in Veterinary Medicine.—Farmers and farriers use the ointment (blue ointment) to a dangerous extent, as a dressing for the fly, and wholesale poisoning of sheep has been in several instances the consequence.[912] Ethiops mineral and Turpeth mineral are given to dogs when affected by the distemper, worms, or the mange. Mercury, however, is not very frequently given to cattle by veterinary surgeons, ruminants generally appearing rather susceptible to its poisonous effects.
[912] Twenty-five tons of blue ointment are said to have been sold to farmers by a druggist in Boston, Lincolnshire, in the course of a single year.—Taylor’s Medical Jurisprudence, vol. i. p. 279.