White Camphorated Ointment
1. Take 3 ounces 2 drachms of powdered carbonate of lead (cerussa), 45 grains of powdered camphor. Mix, and then stir into 5 ounces of melted lard.
This is applied to burns and contusions with very good effect, and is much used in Austria. The surface must not be abraded when it is applied.
2. Take 4 ounces of olive oil, 1 ounce of white wax, 22 grains of camphor, and 6 drachms of spermaceti. Melt the wax and spermaceti with the oil, and when they have cooled rub the ointment with the camphor, dissolved in a little oil. Sometimes the white wax is omitted, and lard substituted for it.
It is useful in chaps, fissures, abrasions, and roughness of the skin.
Source: The Ladies’ Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness, Florence Hartley
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An excellent application for “black eye” is twenty drops of calendula (juice of marigold) to a teacupful of water, applied by means of a pad of lint. Calendula is a splendid substitute for arnica
in case of a bruise, where the skin is abraded, as in such a case the latter will often produce what is known as “arnica poison.”
Source: Audel’s Household Helps, Hints and Receipts