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very much, and it is highly esteemed by 

 them. 



" The leaving off the practice of anoint- 

 ing the body with oil can be attributed to 

 nothing else but the ill smell and other disa- 

 greeable effects that attended it ; but if oil of 

 chocolate was used instead of oil of olives 

 those inconveniences would be avoided, 

 because it has no smell and dries entirely 

 into the skin. Nothing certainly would 

 be more advantageous, especially for aged 

 persons, than to renew this custom, which 

 has been authorized by the experience of 

 antiquity. 



" Apothecaries ought to make use of this, 

 preferably to all others, as the basis of their 

 balsams, because all other oils grow ran- 

 cid, and this does not. 



" There is nothing so proper as this to 

 keep arms from rusting, because it con- 

 tains less water than any other oil made 

 use of for that purpose. 



" In the West Indies they make use of 



