US 229014 A
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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
WILLIAM L. SHARETTS, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 229,014, dated June 22, 1880.
Application filed April 26, 1880. (No specimens.)
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, WILLIAM L. SHARETTS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore city, State of Maryland, have invented a new and useful composition of matter to be used for healing 01d running sores, scalds, burns, 860., of which the following is a specification.
My composition consists of the following ingredients, combined in the proportions stated, viz: crude petroleum, two .and one-half gallons; crude turpentine, twenty pounds; prepared calamine, twenty pounds; bees-Wax, twenty pounds; lard, fortypounds; lime-Water, forty gallons-these ingredients to be thoroughly mingled by agitation. The solution or to be used for healing oldrunning sores, scalds,
burns, boils, felons, and espeoialiy for ladies gathered breasts, consisting of petroleum, turpentine, ca lamine, bees-wax, lard, and limewater, in the proportions specified.
WILLIAM L. SHARETTS.
J OHN GmsoN, Jns. J. O. SOULLEY.