The Charleston Mercury
July 31, 1862,
The following recipe for flesh wounds has proved very efficacious, and is recommended to the Medical Faculty as an experiment. It has been practically tested by an officer in the French army, who was wounded in the arm, and in the space of eight days his wound was healed. It is worth a trial:
Take a linen rag, in which cut small holes throughout, dip it in camphor oil, and apply it to the wounded parts. Take finely powdered camphor and sprinkle over the linen – a piece of lint in camphor salve should then be applied over the wound. Bandage the part wounded, and apply twice or three times a day.