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Jarave Spanish
Pour 4 gallons tion, perhaps, is made according to the followof boiling water on 2 pounds Rio Negro sarsa-ing formula: Take balsam of turpentine, 2 parilla, 8 ounces powdered guaiacum bark, 4 ounces; oil of turpentine, 10 ounces. ounces each of rasped guaiacum wood, anise The following is also one of the imitations of seed, and liquorice root, 2 ounces of bark of it made in this country: Linseed oil, 1 quart; mezereon root, 2 pounds of molasses, and 12 resin, 2 pounds; sulphur, 1 pound; boil tobruised cloves. Shake it thrice a day, and gether over a slow fire; when combined rekeep it in a warm place. When fermentation has set in, it is fit for use. Dose, a small tumblerful. move from the fire, and add 1 pint oil of turpentine, and 50 drops liquor of ammonia; stir well together and bottle. The genuine drops are the residuum of the rectification of oil of