Mrs Austens Salve for grene wound or olde sores
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Title
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Mrs Austens Salve for grene wound or olde sores
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Date
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1694/1795
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Description
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A method for making a salve for new or old wounds made by mixing camphor into a mixture of heated oil, beeswax, and white lead, then cooled and rolled into shape.
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Transcript
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Rx of the best salet oyle one pinte Bees wax half a pound of white led or cerous 4 ounces beaten very well Camphir 2 drams: First take the oyle & make it hot then put in the bees wax and let simber a qrtr of an houre then put in the white led let it continue simbering an oure ceep it stiring all the while then put in the Camphir & let it simber a litele, then take it of & let it stand till it be colde anoint your hands with a litele oyle & so make it up in to Roles
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Contributor
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Abu-Bader, Nagham
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Le, Vincent
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Grimm, Stephanie
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Bakir, Mehtap
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Source
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Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
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Publisher
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George Mason University Libraries
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Rights
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Public domain. There are no known restrictions.
