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This page describes practices involving highly flammable materials in ways that create a serious risk of fire or explosion.
In addition, this page prescribes plants as medicine according to pre-modern medical theory. Several of the plants named are toxic, correct identification is difficult, and the doses given have no scientific basis. Do not ingest or apply any preparation described here.
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To Prepare Collodion
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