Domestic Medicine, Or, A Valuable Treatise on the Prevention and Cure (1804)
Found this recipe for mercury ointment (!) in a domestic medicine book and had to share. Before the toxicity of mercury was understood, it was frequently utilized in cosmetics, topical antiseptics and disinfectants, as well as ointments.
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