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Bools, Dubbin for. — (1) Resin, 2 oz.; tallow, 1 oz. ; train oil, \ pt.; mix. 
(2) Porpoise oil, pt.; tallow, \ lb., mix. But nothing beats pure neat’s foot oil, 
the stuff sold in the bazaars as neat’s foot oil is frequently largely adulterated 
with mustard oil which bums leather. Dale’s dubbin is also excellent. 
Bugs , fleas, <hc. —Never ^o into camp especially in the Himalayas, without a 
supply of Keating’s or Kemp’s Circassian Insect powder. 
Gamp Doctoring .—For burns, dress with olive oil or, what is better, equal 
parts of olive oil and lime water soaked in lint and wrapped in a thick layer of 
cotton-wool. After two days dress with either carbonate of soda, powdered chalk, 
starch, or flour. To arrest slight bleeding, use Friars’ balsam, or charred cotton 
rags; for excessive bleeding, ligatures and plugs of rag with the balsam. Wasp 
and bee stings should be removed with tweezers if possible, then rub with dilute 
ammonia, or with the juice of a fresh cut onion. For very severe insect bites 
and stings, apply carbolic acid lotion in strength of 1 part to 20 of water, soaked 
in lint. Whiskey, brandy or other spirit often allays the irritation of mosquito 
bites. For scorpion or centipede stings, the oil scraped out of a tobacco pipe 
is a good application, or strong solution of common salt put on with a rag. 
Boils can be quickly brought to a head with a mixture of soap and sugar. 
Blisters should always be pricked at the base and the water gently expressed. 
Emetics—a charge of gunpowder in a tumblerful of water, a large drink of salt 
