A HAIR POMADE.
The celebrated Dupuytren recommended the following pomade, and I am not aware of anything much better:—Beef marrow, three ounces; nervine balsam, one ounce. Melt these together with about an ounce of oil of almonds, then strain and add one ounce of Peruvian balsam, and mix; then eight grains of extract of cantharides, dissolved in a little rectified spirit. Rub this in at night- and in the morning. If, however, it causes too much irritation, once a day will be. enough. Erasmus Wilson, the skin disease specialist, recommended a liquid preparation of one ounce of Eau de Cologne, one ounce of tincture of cantharides, and five drops each of oil of rosemary and oil of lavender. Either may he used, but I may add that both will fail if attention he not paid to the general health.—Gordon Stables, M.D.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXI, Issue V, 30 July 1898, Page 158
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141A HAIR POMADE. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXI, Issue V, 30 July 1898, Page 158
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