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To Remove Moles
Croton oil, under the form of pomade or ointment, and potassio-tartrate of antimony (tartar emetic), under the form of paste or plaster, have each recently been successfully employed for the removal of ordinary moles and birth-marks.
The following is the mode of using the latter feet in bed. It is hardly conceivable what a a lopted by an eminent French surgeon: Take pleasurable glow this diffuses. Frequent tartar emetic in impalpable powder, 15 grains; soap plaster, 1 drachm; and beat them to a paste. Apply this paste to nearly a line in thickness (not more), and cover the whole with strips of gummed paper. In 4 or 5 days eruption or suppuration will set in, and, in a few days after, leave, in place of the birthwashing of the feet, and rubbing them thoroughly dry with a linen cloth or flannel, is very useful.