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Therefore I took my neatsfoot oil, which now was clogged like honey, and rubbed it hard into my leg-joints, so far as I could reach them.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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I was forced to help myself upstairs with a couple of mopsticks! and I rubbed the joints with neatsfoot oil, which comforted them greatly.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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Regular rubbing with oil but particularly neatsfoot oil will help to prevent this and a nick made m the hoof at the top of the crack at right angles to it will help to stop the crack spreading.
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-- Draw a blister on the inside of the leg below the knee; keep it running with ointment made of hen manure, by simmering it in hog's lard with onions; rub the knee with the following kind of ointment: Bits of peppermint, oil of sassafras, checkerberry, juniper, one drachm each; simmer in one-half pint neatsfoot oil, and rub on the knee three times a day.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs
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-- Take the berries of red cedar and allow them to simmer in neatsfoot oil, and use as an ointment.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs
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Should toughness be desired, without extreme hardness, the steel may be cooled in a bath of lard oil, neatsfoot oil or fish oil.
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Our leather links are saturated with a mixture of tallow, neatsfoot oil, etc.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 Various
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-- One-fourth pound of resin and one-fourth pound of sulphur; melt by a slow fire, and add one ounce of Cayenne pepper and one-fourth of an ounce of camphor gum; stir well till mixed, and temper with neatsfoot oil.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs
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No leather is thoroughly waterproof against snow water, but by frequent greasing with mutton tallow, neatsfoot oil or vaseline, shoes can be kept soft and practically waterproof as long as the soles and uppers are in good condition.
Outdoor Sports and Games Claude H. Miller
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A gallon of sperm oil 7.12 lbs. A gallon of neatsfoot oil 7.63 lbs. PAINTS AND LACQUERS.
Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance
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