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Gout Poultice

Dissolve 6 drachms balm of Mecca in 16 ounces rectified spirit; next digest for 48 hours, 1 ounce each of red cinchona bark, sarsaparilla, and sage, and 1/2 ounce saffron, in 32 ounces rectified spirits; filter this, mix it with the solution of 5042. Τo Prevent Plasters from balm of Mecca, and add twice their weight of Adhering to Paper. It is recommended lime-water. Sprinkle 2 fluid ounces on the to dust the latter over with powdered French surface of a hot linseed meal poultice, large chalk. If a piece of thin paper, moistened enough to surround the affected part. with olive oil and then wiped dry, be laid over a plaster, it will prevent adhesion to the

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