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Durrell Stables Survayer of the Meltings Gold Pot Book, April 25, 1814
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1/ To make an Ink or Stain upon Linen which cannot be washed out - Secure from a Druggist or Chemist a drachm of Lapis Infernalis, or silver Caustic, & let him dissolve it in half an ounce of diluted nitrous acid; then add thereto a small portion of fine powdered charcoal, to make the mix turn a little dark coloured Wet, with a hair Pencil, the part of the Cloth which you intend to mark or write upon with a solution of fingers in Water which being dry, write them with a new Pen dipped in the preparation of the silver Caustic above mentioned and let the letters dry; they cannot afterwards be effaced by any mean, but will stand washing in soap or any other mixture. Take care not to wet your finger with this Ink as it will stain them black [left margin] P396- M. Homapel's Account of his Cure for Burns or Scalds Take half a pound of alum in powder, dissolve it in a quart of Water; bathe the burn or scald with a linen rag wet in this mixture; then bind the wet rag theron with a slip of Linen and moisten the bandage with the Alum, water frequently without removing it in the course of two or three days; He relates that one of his Workmen who fell into a Copper of boiling liquor where he remained for three minutes before taken out was immediately put into a Tub containing a saturated solution of Alum in Water, where was kept two hours, his Sores were then
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1/ To make an Ink or Stain upon Linen which cannot be washed out - Secure from a Druggist or Chemist a drachm of Lapis Infernalis, or silver Caustic, & let him dissolve it in half an ounce of diluted nitrous acid; then add thereto a small portion of fine powdered charcoal, to make the mix turn a little dark coloured Wet, with a hair Pencil, the part of the Cloth which you intend to mark or write upon with a solution of fingers in Water which being dry, write them with a new Pen dipped in the preparation of the silver Caustic above mentioned and let the letters dry; they cannot afterwards be effaced by any mean, but will stand washing in soap or any other mixture. Take care not to wet your finger with this Ink as it will stain them black [left margin] P396- M. Homapel's Account of his Cure for Burns or Scalds Take half a pound of alum in powder, dissolve it in a quart of Water; bathe the burn or scald with a linen rag wet in this mixture; then bind the wet rag theron with a slip of Linen and moisten the bandage with the Alum, water frequently without removing it in the course of two or three days; He relates that one of his Workmen who fell into a Copper of boiling liquor where he remained for three minutes before taken out was immediately put into a Tub containing a saturated solution of Alum in Water, where was kept two hours, his Sores were then
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