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Turner's Cerate
Take of sweet cil, 2 pounds; yellow wax, carbonate of zinc, powdered, of each 1 pound. Mix at a low heat. as safe a preparation as either Fowler's or Pearson's solution, owing to the ready decom position of the ammonia salt. 5299. Pearson's Arsenical Solution This is an aqueous solution of arsenite of soda, containing 1 grain of the salt in a fluid ounce. 5290. Allison's Tobacco Ointment for Gathered Breasts. Tobacco leaves (fresh 5300. Sampson's New York Pilis. and sliced), 10 ounces; dilute acetic acid, 4 The là grain pills consist of powdered coca, pints; basilicon ointment (see No. 4964), 13 25; extract of coca, 30; powdered iron, 35 ounces. Boil the tobacco in the acid, strain parts.