The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are:
Removes black-heads or face worms, pimples, blotches, and all skin eruptions. Sores, scalds and burns are soothed and the pain relieved all at once. Chapped hands, sore lips, scurvy eruptions, salt-rheum and tetter are promptly cured. Cuts and wounds of every description.
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