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Rother's Soap Liniment

Take of soap (genuine castile, mottled or white), dry and in No. 12 powder, 24 troy ounces; camphor, 12 troy ounces; oil of rosemary, 3 fluid ounces; water, 3 pints; strong alcohol, 10 pints. Mix the water with half a pint of the alcohol in a capacious vessel; add the soap and apply heat until solution has occurred; to this add 4 pints of alcohol. In the remaining 6 pints of alcohol dissolve the camphor and oil; to this add the solution of soap; mix. Let the impurities (coloring matter of the soap) subside, and filter. This is vastly superior to the officinal process. (See No. 4869.)