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Vinegar Poultice

Soak bread in vinegar and apply cold; for bruises, extravasations, black-eyes, &c. 5043. Litharge, Lead, or Diachylon Plaster. Take 5 pounds litharge in very fine powder, 1 gallon olive oil, and 1 quart water. Or: 5 ounces litharge, 12 fluid ounces olive oil, and 8 fluid ounces water. Unless the oil is fully 24 times the weight of the litharge, the plaster soon gets hard and non-

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