preservative

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For treating leather boots, our staff at Wirecutter likes Obenauf’s Heavy Duty Leather Preservative.

From Slate • Nov. 9, 2018

Patrick Smith's Preservative against Quakerism and The Faith and Practice of a Church of England Man, missionaries carried with them local helps such as Bishop Wilson's Essay Towards the Instruction of the Indians.

From Time Magazine Archive

Realize that in Gibson's "Preservative" there are not less than ten volumes of such writing!

From The Profits of Religion by Sinclair, Upton

The most certain Preservative, and the most attainable too by every Man, is to avoid all Excess, and especially Excess in eating and in drinking.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

The Preservative Paste now comes into requisition, and with this the skull and orbits are well painted inside and out.

From Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. by Browne, Montagu