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Grosvenor's Tooth Powder

Take of red coral, 6 ounces; prepared oystershells, 5 ounces; orris root, 1 ounce; oil of rhodium, 4 or 5 drops; mix. This is the original formula. Equal parts of prepared shells, rose-pink, and cuttle-fish bone, are now gencrally substituted for the coral. also sold as coral dentifrice and coral tooth powder.

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