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Show EUROPEAN OLIVE. 20 The following is. supposed to be drawing, the OrnTMENT oF Yetrow Rosin (Unguentum Resine flave, olim Unguentum Basilicon flavum, P. 1.) : Take of yellow rosin, yellow wax, a pound of each; olive oil, a pint: Melt the rosin and wax with a gentle heat ; then add the oil, and strain the mixture while yet warm. This plaster is employed for the dressing of broken chilblains, and other sores that require stimulating : it is also used to drive milk away, being placed over the tumid breasts when thechild is weaned. The following is known bythe vulgar name of Turner’s Cerate, as curing the wounds of Turners, and is good in broken ah(| chilblains, the Cerare or Catramy (Ceratum Lapidis Calami« naris, olim Ceratum Epuloticum, P. L.): Take of prepared calamy, yellow wax, half-a-pound of each; olive oil, a pint: Melt the wax with the oil, and as soon as they begin to thicken, sprinkle in the prepared calamy, and keepit stirring till the ces rate is cool. It enters into the composition of the mild and strong liniments ef ammonia: thus, Liniment or Ammonra (Linimentum Ammoniz, olim Link mentumvolatile, L. P.) : Take of water of ammonia, half-an-ounce; olive oil, an ounce anda half: Mix by shaking themina phial. Srrone Liniment or AMMONIA (Linimentum Ammoniz fortius, L. P.): Take of pure water of ammonia, an ounce ; olive oil, two ounces; Mix by shaking themin a phial. These are used as gently stimulating affected parts, to invite the blood to those parts, and have been found of service in rheu< matism of the chronic kind, in paralytic affections, white swell. ings, gouty attacks in the joints likelyto recede, &c. The oil moderates the too highly stimulating effects of the ammonia, and hence it usefully enters into compositions with turpentine ; which see under that article. VERONICA BECABUNGA. BROOKLIME, OR WATER-SPEEDWELL. Class 11. Diandria. Order 1. Monogynia. Essent. Gen. Cuar. Corolla four-cleft, wheel-shaped, with the under Segment narrower: Capsule superior, two-celled. Spec, Cuar. Racemeslateral: Leaves elliptic flat: Siem creeping. EE. DESCRIPTION. Ir isa very beautiful plant whenin flower; its stalks are round, thick, andsucculent, and growto ten inches ora foot in length $ but they do not stand entirely erect, but are procumbent in part, and often take fresh root at the joints, where they touch the ground. They are sometimes single, often branched, and when cut through appear of a spongy nature, The leaves are oblong, roundedat the ends, and serrated abont the edges; they stand in pairs, two at every joint of the stalk opposite to each other ; they are near an inch long, smooth on the surface, and somewhat glossy, of a thick substance, and of a dark or blackish green colour. From the ale of these leaves there arise pedicles one on eachside ; these are three inches long, or thereabouts, and are each ornamentedwith a long series of flowe |