Oleum e vitellis, Oil of Eggs. Obtained by boiling the yelks, and then submitting them to pressure; fifty eggs yield about 5 oz. of oil. It is introduced into the Paris Pharmacopœia, being much employed on the Continent for killing mercury.
Albumen. Used principally for clarifying turbid liquors.
Testa. Similar to other absorbents.
OXYMEL SIMPLEX. L.D. Mel Acetatum. P.L. 1787.
Simple Oxymel.[[595]]
This composition of honey and acetic acid has been long valued on account of its detergent qualities, and has accordingly been much used as the basis of gargles, and expectorant remedies.
OXYMEL SCILLÆ. L. D. Oxymel Scilliticum. P.L. 1720. 1745.
Oxymel of Squills.
This preparation certainly possesses considerable powers as an expectorant; especially if allowed to pass slowly over the fauces, as when applied in the form of a linctus, (Form: 135,) which by stimulating the top of the trachea may possibly act, by a kind of “contiguous sympathy,” upon the pulmonary structure,[[596]] and thereby increase the activity of the exhalant vessels, and so dilute the mucus contained in the follicles as to cause it to be poured out in a less viscid form, and consequently in a state to be more easily brought up by expectoration. Its action will also admit of another explanation, but for this see page 102. Dose from fʒss to fʒij. In larger doses it is given for the purpose of exciting vomiting, especially in hooping cough.
PAPAVERIS CAPSULÆ. L.E.D.