1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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No. 460. Bracing Mixture for Sprains.

After the above embrocation the following bracing n^ixture must be rubbed on the part once a day. Take of Egyptiacum, 2 ounces; oil of turpentine, 1 ounce. Shake well together; then add cam- phorated spirits of wine and compound tincture of benzoin, each 1 ounce, and vinegar, 11 ounces. Mix, and shake well together every time it is used.

No. 461.

jPasie to stop Bleeding.

Take of fresh nettles, 1 handful, and bruise them in a mortar. Add blue vitriol, in powder, 4 ounces; wheat flour, 2 ounces ; wine vinegar, J ounce ; oil of vitriol, J ounce. Beat them all together into a paste. Let the wound be filled up with this paste, and a proper pledget of tow laid over the mouth, in order to prevent it from falling out, and then bandage it on with a strong roller. This dressiiig must remain on the wound 10 or 12 hours.

No. 462. Ointment for Scratched Heels.

Take of hog's lard, 1 pound ; alum, in fine powder, 2 ounces ;

white lead, 4 ounces • white vitriol, 1 ounce;

«ugar of lead, | ounce; olive-oil, 3 ounces. Grind all the pow|lers in a marble mortar with the oil, or on a marble slab ; then add the lard, and work the whole together till united. This is a neat composition, and very proj^er to 2G