The recipe
Ingredients
Directions
Combine the alcohol, arnica, camphor, ammonia, and tincture of opium in a container.
Stir until the camphor is fully dissolved.
Add the water and mix well.
Apply the liniment to sprains, bruises, rheumatic pain, and neuralgic pain as needed.
Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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