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Ayer's Sarsaparilla
Take 3 by the corners and some loose wadding placed fluid ounces each of alcohol, fluid extracts of inside. Strings are next fastened to the bandsarsaparilla and of stillingia; 2 fluid ounces age and it is then tied around the body so as each fluid extracts of yellow-dock and of podophyllin; 1 ounce sugar, 90 grains iodide of potassium, and 10 grains iodide of iron.
This is from a receipt given by Dr. Ayer himself. to cover the region of the heart. This preventive of sea-sickness has been patented in England.