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Conklin's Salve

Take resin, 12 ounces; bees'-wax, mutton suet, and tallow, of each 1 ounce. Melt together, strain the mixture through muslin, and work into rolls in a bath of cold water. in the New Jersey Medical Reporter, that he uses this ointment in nearly every case of mammary abscess, with entire satisfaction.

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