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Superior White Wash
Take a clean Watter tight barrel or other suitable cask and put into it one half bushel of lime Slacken it by pouring over it boiling hot and in sufficient quantities to cover it about 5 inches deep & stir it briskly until the lime is thoroughly slacked When the slackening has been effected disolve in Watter and add, two pounds of Sulphate of Zinc and one pound of Common Salt. These will cause the Wash to harden and prevent its cracking which gives it an unseemly appearance to Work. This leaves the Wash verry white and Beautiful
If desirable a beautiful Cream Colour may be Communicated to the above by Wash by adding three pounds of yellow ochre (or a good pearl Colour or lead Cholour, lamb black) for Fawn colour add 4 pounds of umber, Turkish or American one pound of Indian Red and one pound of lamb black.
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19 Decr 1861 Bad Cold, the patient should cease absolutely from eating anything whatever for 24 or 48 hours from the 1st day the Cold is discovered, should be strictly confined to a warm room, taking freely of warm drinks, sweating tolerable freely. This if taken in time, will do more to cure than all the medicines that can be given, it will never fail. It is my remedy & has been for many years Nimrod Porter
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