Equal parts of tar, lard, and resin, melted together.

Ointment For Ulcers About The Joints

Equal parts of basilicon and citrine ointments. - Clater.

Healing And Cleansing Ointment

Lard 2 ., yellow resin 1/2 ; melt together, and when it begins to cool, add calamine in powder 1/2 APPLICATION TO WOUNDS. Mix the whites of eggs with flour to a proper consistence. Applied over the part, it soon dries, and shields it from the air.

Digestive Ointment

1. Lard, common turpentine, of each 4 oz.; melt, and add 1 oz. powdered verdigris. - White.

2. Boil leaves of black hellebore with an equal weight of lard, until the leaves are crisp; strain, and add an equal weight of common turpentine. [A similar ointment made with ivy leaves is likewise very stimulating.]

Ointment For Foul In The Foot, Or Low

1. Melt 4 oz. of lard with 4 oz. of common turpentine, and add 1 oz. of finely powdered sulphate of copper, stirring until cold. - White.

2. Melt together equal weights of soft soap and common turpentine. - Skereet.

Ointment For Cancerous Tumours

Iodide of potasium 1/4 oz., hot water 1/4 oz.; dissolve, and mix with 2 oz. of lard.

Charge For Old Strains

Burgundy pitch 4 oz., common pitch 4 oz., wax 2 oz., tar 6 oz.; apply hot, and cover with cut tow.