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Another treatment which has some merit, and which has long enjoyed a certain vogue among both medical men and the laity, is a combination of equal parts of lime-water with either olive or linseed oil; this is called carron oil and is applied in the same way as the picric acid solution.
Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene 1896
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Mix equal amounts of this water and vegetable oil to make a white mixture (called "carron oil").
Chapter 22 1994
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MexConnect. com Forums: Specific Focus: Mexican Kitchen: Thanks to Nichole, Tahlia and carron for your fruit puit recepe!
Thanks to Nichole, Tahlia and carron for your fruit puit recepe! 1919
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Thanks to Nichole, Tahlia and carron for your fruit puit recepe!
Thanks to Nichole, Tahlia and carron for your fruit puit recepe! 1919
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He received us in a hall, which tho 'not very orderly, had a cheerful look, to which a large carron stove*
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For a burn produced by fire, cover with a paste made of baking soda and water, or smear with grease -- as lard, carron oil (mixture of linseed oil and lime water -- half and half) or vaseline or calendula cerate.
Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1918
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He thought how soothing it would be to her bruised heart, what carron-oil to her blistered reputation, if he got Doctor Mosely to perform the ceremony.
We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914
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An hour's soaking in cold water drew the frost out of the foot, and we swathed it in cotton saturated with carron oil, upon which it swelled so greatly that it was impossible to tell the extent of the injury or to determine whether or not the dog would ever be of use again.
Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska Hudson Stuck 1891
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Just then I saw Mr. Dixon jump up on one of the carron-ades, and make signs to the natives that no more were to come on board.
Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories 1898 Louis Becke 1884
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Sich a pile on 'um, all workin' up together in the dry ashes, like maggits in carron.
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