cerate

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In order to fix the cosmetics, it was necessary to anoint the face and breast with fresh cerate.

From Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite by Lou?s, Pierre

After a few days dress the wound with Turner's cerate.

From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)

Poultice for a few days, then cerate of lapis calaminaris, as in herpes.

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

No. 2.—Take of simple cerate 1 oz.; creosote 1 drachm; calomel 30 grains: mix and use in the same manner as the first.

From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)

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