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Calvetti's Manna Lemonade

cloves, a sufficient quantity to give it a strong Dissolve 1 ounce pure mannite in 10 ounces scent. Mix. Rubbed on the chest it stimuchest it stimuboiling water, and add sufficient lemon juice lates the skin; it is useful in general for the to flavor. To be drunk cold or iced. Mannite is a peculiar saccharine principle obtained a crystalline form from manna. 5248. Bond's Compound Mixture of Iron. Take 1½ drachms gum myrrh in tears, 6 drops oil of wintergreen, 2 drops oil of nutmeg, 2 scruples carbonate of potash, 1 ounce loaf sugar, 1/2 drachm sulphate of iron, and 7 ounces distilled water. Rub down the myrrh with the oils, add gradually a portion of the water, making a milk of myrrh; then add the potash and sugar. Dissolve the iron in the remainder of the water, and mix the two mixtures by trituration. To be bottled and well corked directly.

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