CAMPHORATED OIL | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 18, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 11.

CAMPHORATED OIL.

A SIMPLE, home-made liniment that is almost magical in its results is composed of kerosene, camphor gum, and sweet-oil. Into a quart bottle put a pint of kerosene, and add as much camphor gum as will dissolve, adding a little more day by day, and shaking thoroughly. Then add half a pint of sweet-oil, shake well, and it is ready for use. It should be well corked and kept out of the way of children. Use for burns, cuts, bruises, stiff neck, stiff joints, sore throat, bunions, and about all the ailments that flesh is heir to, as it will cure, and that right speedily, almost everything; and in our family it has gained the sobriquet of “cure-all.” To illustrate: A young girl severely scalded her entire hand with hot grease the day before her graduation. The hand was immediately swathed in soft cloths, which were kept saturated with the liniment, and by night the heat had been so completely drawn out that no trace of the burn remained except a slight redness. By the following evening that had completely disappeared.

My own hand was so severely scalded with steam that it felt as tho the flesh might be fairly cooked. It was at once wrapped up and the liniment applied, but so fierce was the heat that the liniment evaporated in less than a minute. Application after application was made until evaporation ceased. The accident occurred about nine o’clock in the morning. At tea time I unwrapped my hand, prepared the meal, and washed the dishes with apparently a well hand. It was, of course, a little tender, but not in the least painful, and so natural in appearance that no one would have imagined that it had been scalded.

A burn or scald of any kind will not blister or long remain sore if this oil be at once applied. Last spring, just as I began house-cleaning, I bruised my finger in such a way that the nail was torn half way back to the root, and the finger mashed until the blood came. It was immediately wrapped up in a cloth saturated with the liniment, and, instead of nursing a sore finger for days, I went to work the next morning with an entirely cured finger.

One suffering with a very severe “stiff neck” saturated a flannel cloth in the liniment, bound it about the affected part, went to bed and took a nap, and when she arose her neck was well.

A cloth saturated with the liniment and bound over sore bunions will soon cure them. I could fill this entire page with instances of its wonderful cures—but the above will suffice.—Exchange.