3. (Wholesale.) From lead plaster, 42 lbs.; yellow resin, 12 lbs.; strained galbanum, 3 lbs.; strained assafœtida, 1 oz.
Obs. Galbanum plaster is stimulant and resolvent, and is much used in indolent, scrofulous, and other tumours, painful gouty and rheumatic joints, in rickets, &c.
Plaster, Gaulthier’s. Prep. (Guibourt.) Palm plaster, 12 parts; olive oil and white wax, of each 1 part; melt, and add of Venice turpentine,
2 parts. More adhesive than the simple PALM PLASTER.
Plaster of Gin′ger. Syn. Emplastrum zingiberis, L. See Ginger.
Plaster, Gout. Syn. Emplastrum Antarthriticum, L. See Plaster of Galbanum, Pitch, &c.; Paper, Gout.
Plaster of Gum. See Plaster of Galbanum.
Plaster of Hem′lock. Syn. Emplastrum conii, E. cicutæ, L. Prep. 1. Wax, 1 part; Burgundy pitch, 9 parts; melt them together, and add of extract of hemlock, 3 parts.
2. (Ph. Bat.) Lead plaster and beeswax, of each 1 lb.; olive oil, 6 fl. oz.; melt, and add of powdered hemlock (recent), 1 lb.
Obs. Hemlock plaster is occasionally used as an application to painful and malignant ulcers and tumours, painful joints, &c. A spread plaster of it, with 6 or 8 gr. of tartar emetic (in very fine powder) sprinkled over its surface, has been highly extolled as a counter-irritant in hooping-cough, phthisis, &c.