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Anodyne Plaster

Melt an ter. For chronic inflammation, colds, sore ounce of adhesive plaster, or diachylon (see throats, inflammations of the lungs, liver, and No. 5043), and, whilst cooling, add a drachm bowels, sprains, &c. Take 1 part by measure of powdered opium, and the same quantity of of mustard; 5 parts flour; and 5 of Indian camphor, previously dissolved in a small meal. Mix the mustard in a little hot water, quantity of olive oil. Spread on leather. and, when smooth, add about 2 parts boiling This soon relieves an acute local pain. Or: water, and when all is dissolved stir in the Powdered opium, & ounce; resin of the spruce fir, powdered, 3 ounces; lead plaster, 1 pound.

Melt the plaster and resin together, then add the opium and mix the whole. Useful for rheumatic pains. $5049. Strengthening Plaster. Litharge plaster, 24 parts; white resin, 6 parts; yellow wax and olive oil, of each 3 parts; red oxide of iron, 8 parts. Let the oxide be rubbed with the oil, the other ingredients added, flour, and then the meal, thoroughly; adding more boiling water if necessary. Spread on a thick cloth double folded, to retain heat and moisture. Cover with mosquito netting, or lace, and nothing closer, sew around the edges, apply to the painful spot; fasten with bandages, and wear till dry, or for 24 hours, and then put on a fresh one. Continue to renew these for 1 or 2 weeks. When the skin becomes too tender, add 1 more spoonful of melted, and mix the whole well together. flour and meal each. When these plasters This is an excellent plaster for relaxation of can no longer be borne, use powdered ginger the muscles and weakness of the joints arising instead of mustard, and then finish with plain from sprains and bruises. The plaster spread Indian meal poultice alone. (Leggett.) over leather should be cut into strips 2 inches 5057. The Best Mustard Plaster. wide, and strapped firmly round the joints, Take a piece of waste linen, and, if crumpled,