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Salt Rheum Ointment
Mix in an earthen vessel, 1 ounco aqua-fortis, with 1 ounce quicksilver; when effervescence has ceased, incorporate with it 1 pound lard and 1 ounce dissolved hard soap; then work into the mixture 1 ounce prepared chalk and table-spoonful spirits of turpentine. ounce. Melt, raising the oil nearly to the boiling point; then gradually add 2 or 3 ounces powdered red lead while on the fire; do not burn it; boil slowly till it becomes a drachm powdered camphor when it is nearly dark brown; remove from the fire, and add 1 cold. This is a first-rate healing salve, superior to most; is wonderful in burns, scalds, scrofulous, fistulous, and all other ulcers.
Spread on linen, and renew daily. bees'-wax and resin, of each 2 ounces; linseed