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Aloetic Unguent.

Take powder'd Aloes 2 drams; Scammony, Troches of Alhandal, each half a dram; Oxe Gall 1 dram; Butter as much as needs. Make an Unguent.

It's to be us'd to Childrens Navels, against Worms. I know not whether that of Riverius (cap. de Hydrope) be founded on Experience, or not, where he writes, That Unguents compos'd of the strong Purgers are dangerous, because the purgative Quality being carry'd into and fix'd in the Muscles and Membranes, often causes a mortal Flux.

Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710