Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1917 — Paraffin Better Than Ambrine. [ARTICLE]

Paraffin Better Than Ambrine.

The so-called ambling, invented by Dr. Barthe de Sandfort and used in France for healing burns and other inflammations, Is almost all paraffin. So are its several American imitations. The Journal of the American Medical Association has been testing them, as well as the many different brands of paraffin, and it finds that the success of treatment with it depends upon the kind of paraffin used. It gives a fotmula with which anyone can make a paraffin film similar in chemical composition, but superior in physical properties to ambrlne. This is: Paraffin 120-122 F., 97.5; olive oil, 1.5; asphalt, 4 drops. And it says it is exceedingly probable that further experience will show that for most purposes simple paraffin will serve as well as, if not better than, any of the mixtures.