cerate

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For this purpose animal fats, washed lard, simple cerate, cold cream, and the like are to be preferred to cosmoline and vaseline.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

A little simple cerate should be spread on lint, and be applied every morning to the part affected, and a white-bread poultice, every night, until it is quite healed.

From Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children by Chavasse, Pye Henry

A man's life, the perspiration of an entire existence, is secreted in this layer of mouldy cerate.

From Over Strand and Field by Flaubert, Gustave

Before the hands are washed, rub them thoroughly with a little of the cerate, then wash them as usual.

From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Young, Daniel

After a few days dress the wound with Turner's cerate.

From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)