cerate
Example Sentences
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Rubbed together with cerate, or lard, powdered Savin is used for maintaining the sores of blisters, and of issues, open when it is desired to keep up their derivative action.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
Before the hands are washed, rub them thoroughly with a little of the cerate, then wash them as usual.
From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Daniel Young
He extracted this, and, until cicatrization was complete, he dressed the stump with saturnine cerate.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
A little simple cerate should be spread on lint, and be applied every morning to the part affected, and a white-bread poultice, every night, until it is quite healed.
From Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children by Pye Henry Chavasse
A man's life, the perspiration of an entire existence, is secreted in this layer of mouldy cerate.
From Over Strand and Field by Gustave Flaubert
