Meaning of Carron oil | Babel Free

Definitions

A lotion of linseed oil and limewater, applied to burns and scalds.

uncountable

Examples

“Carron oil—so called from the famous Carron ironworks, where it is extensively used—not only lessens the immediate pain, but covers the part with a film which effectually shuts out the air and prevents the skin getting dry. This Carron oil […] consists of equal parts of olive oil and lime-water. Olive oil, or salad or Lucca oil, is the oil best suited for the purpose; but if not easily obtainable, linseed oil answers the purpose very well.”

“Then Mrs. McLash, with woman's wisdom, came rushing from her bedroom with cotton-wool and bandages and iodine and chlorodyne and carron-oil.”

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