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Cancer Plaster
White oak- verdigris, and 2 drachms each of powdered bark, 4 ounces; bruise it well, and add urine mustard and black pepper. sufficient to cover it. Infuse four days, boil 5055. Warm Plaster. For this plasit till it becomes as thick as molasses. Add ter, take 1 part of blistering plaster, and of 2 ounces honey and 2 ounces strained tur- burgundy pitch 14 parts; mix them by means pentine gum. To make this plaster caustic, of a moderate heat. This plaster is stimuadd 2 drachms white vitriol. Spread on soft lant, slightly irritating the skin, and is of use leather or linen. It may be applied to all in ordinary coughs and whooping-cough, kinds of ulcers and white swellings. For can- sciatica, and other local pains. cers it is invaluable. 5056. Homœopathic Mustard Plas-