1 administered in veterinary medicine, but limited to external use
2 in men. Palmwris tinctura lit/ outriptica is a compound of tar
3 and ■ brimstone. The following ointment is now hutch used in
4 France, against itch. Hog 1 s-lard eight parts; Hour of sulphur
5 two parts ; carbonate of potash one part. Previous to the appli¬
6 cation of this ointment, the patient is put into a svunn bath, tod
7 rubbed for an hour with yellow soap, etc. 11 is asserted, tn.-l by
8 this plan a patient is cured (?) of the itch in two hours. Sul
9 phuretted copper treated by nitric acid, etc., yields a brown
10 adhesive brimstone, resembling gutta percha, which is said to be
11 preferable in medicine to common yellow brimstone.
12 Sulph. Autya&qr (I.) Psoriasis tropicus.
13 Sulph . citrinum (b) Pyrosis. (Alternately nitric'
14 acid) Syphilis.
15 Sur.i’m liicuM, Aiini'M- we made at Lahore, on a small scale,
16 before the English took possession of the country ; now there are
17 several Soda-writer manufactories which use this acid, procuring
18 it from Hindostun, where it is prepared at trifling expense. It. is
19 also used by the shawl-manufacturers of Umritsir and (‘ushmery,
20 for the solution of Indigo. The price was upwards of a shilling
21 a pound. Sulphuric acid has lately been recommended in epi¬
22 demic diarrhoea, even in cholera, and Elivuittm acidu-m 11 alteri
23 in vertigo and faintness.
24 Sulph. arid, conccntratum (III.) Epiphora.
25 Scmbc t, v. Nardostachi/s .
26 Sc kg F, Busrbe— is an officinal article at Lahore. It. is a
27 compound earthy mas- of a greyish color, occasionally varying
28 (from the different composition or manipulation ?) sometimes it
29 is to be met with in small pieces, at other times, in a tubular
30 form, as thick as a finger. If the derivation of its name, Sung
31 (stone) ha.sreo is from fiassorn, or, from vision (as formerly the
32 lapU divinus was used) I cannot say. It is certain that no.
33 Zinc is in it. See Ainslie’s Mat. Indica, Vol. I, p. 573, where
34 Sungbusrie is erroneously stated to be Zinc. According to
35 the analysis made by the Professor of Chemistry, I)r. Joseph
36 Jlcdter.baclv. in the Chemical Laboratory at the Theresianum