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James' Oil of Gladness
Take drops; spirit of sal-volatile, 24 drachms; oil of hemlock, 1 ounce; linseed oil, 1 quart. laudanum, 1 drachm; syrup of safiron, 1 5345. Green Mountain Salve. Take ounce; caraway water to make a pint. 2 pounds resin, 1 pound Burgundy pitch, 5353. Boyle's Fuming Liquor. Take pound bees'-wax, 1 pound mutton tallow; inelt them slowly. When not too warm, add 1 ounce oil hemlock, 1 ounce balsam fir, 1 ounce oil origanum, 1 ounce oil of red cedar, 1 ounce Venice turpentine, 1 ounce oil wormwood, ounce verdigris. The verdigris must be very finely pulverized and mixed with the oils, then add as above and work all in cold quicklime and sulphur, each 3 parts. Triturate together, adding water sufficient to form a paste, and incorporate 7 parts sulphate of ammonia dissolved in water; let the whole stand, then decant, wash the residuum, rubbing it with a small portion of water, unite the solutions, and filter. This is the sulphuretted hydrosulphate of ammonia, and is used tutional diseases. water until cold enough to roll. This salve in medicine as a powerful alterative in constihas no equal for rheumatic pains or weakness in the side, back, shoulders, or any place where pain may locate itself. Where the skin is broken, as in ulcers, bruises, &c., use without the verdigris.