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Beyran's Wash
Dissolve chloride of zinc in 100 times its weight of pure water. This solution is used as a wash for may be made by pouring boiling water, 8 parts, on rhubarb, 3 parts, and carbonate of potash, 1 part. 5357. Brandish's Alkaline Solution, or Caustic Alkali. American pearl-ashes, 6 pounds; quicklime, 2 pounds; wood ashes prepared by burning the branches of the ash, 2 pounds; boiling water, 6 gallons; slack the lime, add the rest of the water and the pearlashes, and lastly stir in the wood-ashes; let chancres, and spontaneously or artificially it stand in a covered vessel for 24 hours, and opened buboes that are extending both in decant. To each pint add 1 drop of true oil size and depth, and show no signs of cicatri- of juniper berries. Keep it in stoppered zation. It is applied twice a day by means of lint moistened with it. As soon as the vitality of the parts becomes favorably modified, Dr. Beyran replaces this wash by Ricord's wine of cinchona or aromatic wine. (See No. 5348.) bottles of green glass. The common liquor of potassa is usually sold for the above solution.