Tallow 1 lb.
Tar 1 lb.
Melt; continue stirring until cold.
Ointments are not so generally applied to wounds or inflamed parts, as
they were formerly; as powders, washes, and fomentations are often found
more efficacious. _Vide_ ASTRINGENTS, DIGESTIVES, DETERGENTS, CAUSTICS,
EMOLLIENTS, BLISTERS, &c.—_White._
OLD, _a._ Past the middle of life; not young.
OLIVE, _s._ A plant producing oil; the emblem of peace; a colour.
_To dye a fine Golden Olive._—Take as much of fine sappy green heath
tops as will half fill a pot which holds eight gallons, put one pound
and a half of _strawall_ (wild French weed, dyer’s weed) in the bottom
while dry; spread over that a little of the heath to cover it; put in
half a pound of fur, or more if you like; cover that with the remainder
of the heath, and put on your frame and lid; press it down and fill it
with water, and boil it twelve or eighteen hours. Divide the time to
make different shades in your drawings, and do not let your liquor boil
away too much without adding fresh water to keep it up. If you have your
shades to your wish, you will have the finest golden olives that ever
were dyed, and in the simplest way. Wash them, and they are finished.
_To dye fine Green Olives._—Take a pound of strawall, put it down with
eight quarts of water, and half a pound of fur. Cut your strawall short,
and put it down. (You ought to have a frame or wooden crop, and a broad
piece of lead, to keep down the stuff, as it takes so very long to give
out the dye.) When it has boiled about half an hour, see if it is
anything of a fine greenish yellow. Draw then for the first shade. Boil
half an hour longer; look at it, and if you like it draw it, as it is
not right to have your shades too near. For the next shade give double
the time, and so on to about four shades. The last ought to get six
hours’ boiling, and you ought, by rights, to divide the time amongst
them all. When you have made out four shades, lift out the dye stuff,
and put in the size of a small horse-bean of copperas with the liquor;
and, when dissolved, put in each shade, and whip it out, and so on with
the whole. If not enough of the olive, add a little more copperas with
each, and dip each of them over again. Thus you have four very fine
green olives. Wash out the copperas immediately.—_Old Recipe._
OMBRE, _s._ A game at cards played by three.
OMENTUM, _s._ The caul, the double membrane spread over the
entrails, called also reticulum, from its structure, resembling
that of a net.
OOZE, _s._ Soft mud, mire at the bottom of water, slime.
OPACITY, _s._ Cloudiness, want of transparency.
OPERATION, _s._ Agency; action, effect; in chirurgery, that part of
the art of healing which depends on the use of instruments.
OPHTHALMY, _s._ A disease of the eyes.
OPIATE, _s._ A medicine that causes sleep.
Opiate confection is composed of opium, long pepper, and other
stimulants. One ounce of the confection does not contain more than
fourteen or fifteen grains of opium; it may therefore be given in doses
from one to two ounces, though in this quantity it would be a powerful
stimulant.
In veterinary medicine, an electuary may be advantageously substituted
for the opiate confection of the London dispensatory.