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Burgundy Pitch Plaster
Melt together 2 pounds strained burgundy pitch, 1 pound prepared frankincense, and 4 ounces each yellow resin and bees'-wax; add 2 fluid ounces each olive oil and water, and 1 ounce expressed oil of nutmeg; stir constantly until evaporated to a proper consistence. 5053. Blister or Cantharides Plaster. Melt together 7½ ounces each yellow tensively used for protecting raw surfaces, wax and suet; 6 ounces lard, and 3 ounces supporting parts, dressing ulcers, retaining resin; when mixed, remove from the fire, and, the lips of recent cuts and wounds in contact, a little before they concrete, sprinkle in and &c. It is gently stimulant, and is thought to mix thoroughly 1 pound very finely powassist the healing process; it is also employed dered cantharides. as a basis for other plasters. Mix by a mod- 5054. Strong Blistering, or Cantharierate heat, 1 ounce resin with 5 ounces des Plaster. Mix at a heat below 2120 litharge plaster. (See No. 5043.) Or: 4 ounces Fahr., 4 ounces Venice turpentine, 3 ounces resin, and 2 ounces powdered castile soap, each of burgundy pitch and cantharides, 1 with 2 pounds litharge plaster. ounce bees'-wax, 4 ounce finely powdered