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Heusler's Red Ink

Take 2 ounces best Brazil wood, 1/2 ounce pulverized alum, 1/2 ounce crystals of bitartrate of potassa, and 16 ounces distilled water; boil down to one half, and strain. Then dissolve in it 1/2 ounce gum-arabic, and add 14 drachms cochineal dissolved in 1½ ounces alcohol of specific gravity .839.

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