This supplies the place of Althæ Ointment. It may be used for anointing inflamed parts, &c.
Eye Ointment.
Take of hogs’ lard prepared, four ounces; white wax, two drachms; tutty prepared, one ounce; melt the wax with the lard over a gentle fire, and then sprinkle in the tutty, continually stirring them till the ointment is cold.
This ointment will be more efficacious, and of a better confidence, if two or three drachms of camphor be rubbed up with a little oil, and intimately mixed with it.
Another.
Take of camphor, and calamine stone levigated, each six drachms; verdegrise well prepared, two drachms; hogs’ lard, and mutton suet prepared, of each two ounces. Rub the camphor well with the powder; afterwards mix in the lard and suet, continuing the triture till they be perfectly united.
This ointment has been long in esteem for diseases of the eyes. It ought, however, to be used with caution, when the eyes are much inflamed or very tender.
Issue Ointment.
Mix half an ounce of Spanish flies, finely powdered, in six ounces of yellow basilicum ointment.
This ointment is chiefly intended for dressing blisters, in order to keep them open during pleasure.