cerate

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When ulcers form they should be poulticed with bread and water for a day or two, and then dressed with calamine cerate.

From Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby by Anonymous

The after treatment was some dressing like simple cerate.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson

Afterwards cerate joined with some metallic calx, as of zinc or lead, or solution of lead, mercury, or copper, or iron, which may stimulate the absorbent system into stronger action.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

This must be removed by applying a little powdered alum,—or, if this fail, it should be once or twice slightly touched with blue-stone, and afterwards dressed with calamine cerate.

From The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease by Bull, Thomas

For this purpose animal fats, washed lard, simple cerate, cold cream, and the like are to be preferred to cosmoline and vaseline.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various