Take two poppy heads, boil them in a quart of milk, and use this as a fomentation. It is excellent in _inflamed eyes_, also to relieve the pain of inflammation from a blister or other cause. MUSTARD CATAPLASM. Take of mustard-seed, powdered, ½ lb. crumb of bread, ½ do. vinegar, as much as is sufficient. Mix, and make a cataplasm. Cataplasms of this kind are employed as _stimulants_: they often inflame the part, and raise _blisters_, but not so perfectly as cautharides. They are frequently applied to the soles of the feet, in the low state of acute diseases, for _raising the pulse_ and relieving the head. SIMPLE OINTMENT. Take of olive oil, 5 ounces, white wax, 2 ounces. This is an useful emollient ointment for _softening the skin_. OINTMENT OF HOG’S LARD. Take of prepared hog’s lard, 2 lbs. rose water, 3 oz. Beat the lard with the rose-water until they be mixed; then melt the mixture with a slow fire, and set it apart that the water may subside; after which, pour off the lard from the water, constantly stirring until it be cold. This ointment may be used for _softening the skin_, and _healing chaps_. WAX OINTMENT. Take of white wax, 4 oz. spermaceti, 3 oz. olive oil, 1 pint. Mix them together over a gentle fire, and then stir them very briskly, without ceasing, till they are cold. SPERMACETI OINTMENT. Take of spermaceti, 6 drams, white wax, 2 do. olive oil, 3 oz. Melt all together over a gentle fire, stirring briskly, without intermission, till the ointment becomes cold. These two ointments are supposed only to supple the parts, and hinder the rag or lint from sticking to the granulating flesh, and they also keep the air from wounds, which is known to irritate them, from the oxygen in the atmosphere; but they have, otherwise, no peculiar healing virtue. LIP SALVE. Melt together 2½ oz. of white wax, 3 oz. of spermaceti, 7 oz. of oil of almonds, 1 dram of balsam of Peru, and 1½ oz. of alkanet root, wrapped up in a linen bag. Pour the salve into small gallipots or boxes, and cover with bladder and white leather. COURT PLASTER. Bruise a sufficient quantity of isinglass, and let it soak for twenty-four hours in a little warm water; expose it to heat over the fire, to dissipate the greater part of the water, and supply its place by colourless brandy, which will mix the gelatine of the glue. Strain the whole through a piece of open linen: on cooling, it will form a trembling jelly.