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Green Basilicon Ointment

Yellow wax and yellow resin, of each 3 ounces; Venice turpentine, 6 ounces; powdered verdigris, 1 ounce; lard, 6 ounces. Melt first healing cuts, abscesses, and local affections the resin, &c., as before. Very efficacious in of any kind.

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