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OXYCROCEUM

Volume 3 · 52 words · 1771 Edition

in pharmacy, &c., a preparation much used in plasters for fractures, &c., made as follows: Take yellow wax, one pound; pitch and galbanum, each half a pound; melt them over a gentle fire; and then add of venice-turpentine, myrrh, and olibanum, each three ounces; saffron, two ounces; make them into a plaster.