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British Oil, or Oil of Stone

Take oils of turpentine and linseed, each 8 ounces, oils of amber and juniper, each 4 ounces. Barbadoes tar, 3 ounces; seneca (petroleum) oil, 1 ounce. Mix. This is an excel- peel and elecampane root, of each 8 ounces. lent application to cuts and bruises, swellings Bruise and digest with 10 pints alcohol (20 and sores of almost any description whatever. per cent.) for 8 days. Then express, add

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