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Bussang Water

Dissolve from to grain of sulphate of iron, 2 or 3 grains alcohol and pint water; moisten the arnica carbonate of soda, 1 grain sulphate of magne- slightly with this mixture, and bruise it sia, and 1 of muriate of soda, in a pint of thoroughly in a mortar. Then pack it firmly acrated water. Forges, Provins, and other in a cylindrical percolator, and pour upon it similar waters can be imitated in the same first the remainder of the mixture, and afterwards sufficient diluted alcohol to make the manner.

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