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Bracing Mixture, and Method of Cure. 



(RECIPE, No. 108.) 



Bracing Mixture/or^ Strains, 



Take — Old verjuice, orgood\¥me vinegar, <?pe quart; 

 Camphorated spirit of; wine, four ounces ; 

 Water of acetated Utliarge (formerly called 



Goulard water), two ounces ; 

 Spirit of turpentine, two ounces ; 

 Oil of origanum, one ounce : 

 Mix, and put them in a tj^ttl^.for jisp. 



This mixture will cool aud brace the sinews 

 greatly. After it has been well rubbed in on the 

 part affected, take a linen bandage, or roller, two 

 or three yards long, and apply it round the leg, 

 upon the swelled tendon, in order to strengthen 

 and brace the part. If the swelling and inflam- 

 mation be considerable upon aod about the si* 

 news, let the part affected be fomented tM ice a. 

 day with the following fomentation. 



