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2 administered in veterinary medicine, but limited to external use
3 in men. Palmieris tinctura lithontriptica is a compound of tar
4 and brimstone. The following ointment is now much used in
5 France, against itch. Hog1 s-lard eight parts; flour of sulphur
6 two parts; carbonate of potash one part. Previous to the appli-
7 cation of this ointment, the patient is put into a warm bath, and
8 rubbed for an hour with yellow soap, etc. It is asserted, that by
9 this plan a patient is cured (?) of the itch in two hours. Sul-
10 phuretted copper treated by nitric acid, etc., yields a brown
11 adhesive brimstone, resembling gutta percha, which is said to be
12 preferable in medicine to common yellow brimstone.
13 Sulph. Auliasar (I.) Psoriasis tropicus.
14 Sulph. citrinum (I.) Pyrosis. (Alternately nitric
15 acid) Syphilis.
16 Sulphuricum, acidum — we made at Lahore, on a small scale,
17 before the English took possession of the country ; now there are
18 several Soda-water manufactories which use this acid, procuring
19 it from Hindostan, where it is prepared at trifling expense. It is
20 also used by the shawl-manufacturers of Umritsir and Cashmere,
21 for the solution of Indigo. The price was upwards of a shilling
22 a pound. Sulphuric acid has lately been recommended in epi-
23 demic diarrhoea, even in cholera, and Eliocirium acidum Halleri
24 in vertigo and faintness.
25 Sulph. acid, concentratum (III.) Epiphora.
26 Sumbul, v. Nardostachys.
27 Sung e Busree— is an officinal article at Lahore. It is a
28 compound earthy mass of a greyish color, occasionally varying
29 (from the different composition or manipulation ?) sometimes it
30 is to be met with in small pieces, at other times, in a tubular
31 form, as thick as a finger. If the derivation of its name, Sung
32 (stone) basree is from Bassora , or, from vision (as formerly the
33 lapis divinus was used) I cannot say. It is certain that no
34 Zinc is in it. See Ainslie's Mat. Indica, Vol. I. p. 573, where
35 Sungbusrie is erroneously stated to be Zinc. According to
36 the analysis made by the Professor of Chemistry, Dr. Joseph
37 Redtenbacher, in the Chemical Laboratory at the Theresianum