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BLACK SALVE, or, Healing Salve

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Source: Consult me, to know how to cook meats, poultry, fish, game, vegetables, soups, gravies, sauces, meat pies, puddings, food for the sick, &c.; consult me on confectionary ... consult me on household management and economy; ... consult me on diseases and their remedies ... consult me on how to dye ... consult me also on a thousand other things by University of Leeds. Library (1870), paragraph-822.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • BLACK SALVE, or, Healing Salve. — Olive Oil, 1 pint
  • BLACK STAIN for WOOD. — Pour one quart of boiling water on half an ounce of commercial extract of Logwood ; when the so- E lution is effected, add half a drachm of Yellow Chromate of Potash, and let the whole be well stirred
  • also the Diuretic Infusion, which see

Method as extracted

  1. Melt, raising the oil nearly to the boiling point ; then gradu- ally add two or three ounces of powdered red lead while on the fire ; do not burn it ; boil slowly till it becomes a dark brown ; re- move from the fire, and add one drachm of powdered Camphor when it is nearly cold. — This is a first-rate healing salve, superior to most, is wonderful in burns, scalds, scrbfulous, fistulous, and all other ulcers.
  2. Spread on linen, and re- new daily.
  3. Use also the warm foot- bath.
  4. Take also the Diuretic Infusion, which see.
  5. Warm injections are also serviceable.
  6. Add to the injections a little Tincture of Lobelia.

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  • The historical use wording does not establish modern clinical effectiveness.
  • Automated review flags: controlled or narcotic, toxic metal or mineral, corrosive or toxic chemical, high risk botanical, serious disease claim.
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Primary and supporting references

  1. Consult me, to know how to cook meats, poultry, fish, game, vegetables, soups, gravies, sauces, meat pies, puddings, food for the sick, &c.; consult me on confectionary ... consult me on household management and economy; ... consult me on diseases and their remedies ... consult me on how to dye ... consult me also on a thousand other things — Consult me, to know how to cook meats, poultry, fish, game, vegetables, soups, gravies, sauces, meat pies, puddings, food for the sick, &c.; consult me on confectionary ... consult me on household management and economy; ... consult me on diseases and thePrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-822.
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