Product Description
This recipe is taken directly from the book, "Lee's Priceless Recipes: 3000 Secrets for the Home, Farm, Laboratory, Workshop and Every Department of Human Endeavor" by Dr. N.T. Oliver. Published in Chicago by Laird & Lee, Publishers. Circa 1895.
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Alum Poultice.
Powdered alum 1 dram, whites of two eggs; shake them together until they form a coagulum. Applied between the folds of soft linen for chilblains, sore nipples, inflamed eyes, etc.