cerate
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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 Pye Henry Chavasse
In order to fix the cosmetics, it was necessary to anoint the face and breast with fresh cerate.
From Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite by Pierre Lou?s
Simple cerate, wax, spermaceti, or suet; or in some instances, a pulverulent substance, such as starch, boric acid, and zinc oxide.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
The after treatment was some dressing like simple cerate.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter
Poultice for a few days, then cerate of lapis calaminaris, as in herpes.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
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