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Lobelia Poultice
Linseed meal, They are usually formed whilst warm, into + ounce; slippery elm, 1 ounce; powdered pound rolls about 8 or 9 inches long, and lobelia, 1½ ounces; ginger, 1 ounce; whiskey wrapped in paper. When required for use, a sufficient to make it. Good for all inflamed little is melted off the roll by means of a parts, as the side in pleurisy, liver complaints, heated iron spatula, and spread upon leather, rheumatism, lumbago. linen, or silk. The less adhesive plasters,