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Holloway's Ointment

Take butter, 12 ounces; bees'-wax, 4 ounces; yellow resin, 3 ounces. Melt, and add vinegar of 5379. Hufeland's Zinc Cerate. For cantharides, 1 ounce. (Sce No. 1178.) Evaporate and add Canada balsam, 1 ounce; oil of mace, 1/2 drachm; balsam Peru, 15 drops.

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