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Balsam de Malta
Gum benzoin, Tonics Dr. Hager recommends the following simple mode as very reliable for detecting adulteration of copaiba balsam with turpentine oil: 5 or 6 drops of water and about 1 drachm of the 2 ounces; gum aloes, 1 ounce; alcohol, 2 pints. balsam are mixed in a small porcelain dish Mix. with as much litharge as will make a thin ointment. This mass, at the common summer temperature, exhales the characteristic odor of oil of turpentine, even if the balsam onics. Medicines that increase the is adulterated with only 10 per cent. of the oil. tone of the muscular fibre, and impart