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

Make it warm, get ready cloths, cerate, greasy wool and bandages for his ankle.

From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 by Aristophanes

Poultice for a few days, then cerate of lapis calaminaris, as in herpes.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

The passage of air from A to C depends upon the grinding and lubrication of the joint at C. Lubricating Taps.—For general purposes resin cerate answers very well.

From The Methods of Glass Blowing and of Working Silica in the Oxy-Gas Flame For the use of chemical and physical students by Shenstone, W. A.

Use this blister: Simple cerate, 4 ounces; cantharides, 3 drachms; bin iodide mercury, 2 drachms.

From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Wickson, Edward J. (Edward James)