Ingredients
- half ounce common resin
- half ounce beeswax
- a piece of tissue paper
- three eighths of a pound
- two scruples pulverized camphor
Directions
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Pint olive oil, half ounce common resin, half ounce beeswax; melt well together and bring oil to boiling heat ; add gradually of pulver- ized red lead — three eighths of a pound ; (for summer use a trifle more lead) in a short time after it is taken up by the oil, and the mixture becomes brown or a shining black, remove from the fire and when nearly cold add two scruples pulverized camphor. It should remain on the fire until it attains a proper consistence for spreading, which
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MEDICAL. 375
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may be known by dipping a splint or knife in the mixture from time to time and allowing it to cool. When used spread thinly on a piece of tissue paper or old fine linen. Excellent for frost sores or any kind that are hard to heal. — Mrs. W. G. March.
By Women of the First Congregational Church (Marysville, Ohio) ·
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