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It is emollient and lenient; of courfe 

 good for chaps in the lips, hands, or nip- 

 ples; and preferves the fkin foft and 

 fmooth. 



A Cruft of Bread applied hot, is an 

 efficacious remedy for pimples that rife on 

 the lips, in confequence of having drank 

 out of a glafs after an uncleanly perfon. 



191. A Scarlet Lip- Salve, 



Take Hog's Lard warned in Rofe-water, 

 half a pound; Red Rofes and Damafk 

 Rofes bruifed, a quarter of a pound; 

 knead them together and let them lie in 

 that flate two days. Then melt the Hog's 

 Lard, and ftrain it from the Rofes. Add 

 a frefh quantity of the latter, knead them 

 in the Hog's Lard, and let them lie to- 

 gether two days as before ; then gently 

 iimmer the mixture in a vapour-bath. 



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