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Salve for All Wounds
Take 1 an iron kettle over a slow fire. Add 24 pound hog's lard, 3 ounces white lead, 3 oun- pounds fresh lard, and simmer to a crisp . ces red lead, 3 ounces bees'-wax, 2 ounces Strain and box for use. Or: Take extract of black resin, and 4 ounces common turpentine; stramonium, 1 drachm; lard, 1 ounce, and mix all these ingredients must be put together in by trituration. This ointment is excellent a pan, and boil of an hour; the turpentine for strengthening broken limbs after the to be put in just before it is done enough, and give it a gentle boil afterwards. This is an excellent cure for burns, sores, or ulcers, as it first draws, then heals afterwards; it is excellent for all wounds.