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Anderson's Pills

Barbadoes aloes, 24 ounces; soap, 4 ounces; colocynth, 1 ounce; gamboge, 1 ounce; oil of aniseed, thyme, mint, rosemary, absinthe, turmeric, fluid ounce. Mix, and divide into pills of 3 grains each. and green walnut rind; & ounce annetto; } ounce pearlash; and 1 poppy-head. After digestion boil for half an hour; then strain through linen; in this decoction are moistened or dipped some 4 or 5 strips of filtering paper side of these strips some light stuff is fastened

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