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Balm of Thousand Flowers

Take of white Castile soap, 2 ounces; honey, 4 ounces; water, 12 ounces; alcohol, 4 ounces; melt the Castile soap and honey in the alcohol FUMIGATING PASTILS. and water with a gentle heat. Flavor with oil of rose and wintergreen. Used as a dentifrice.

Fumigating Pastils; Incense Pastilles. These are

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