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Locatelle's Balsam
Yellow 5317. Parrish's Cathartic Pills. Take resin, olive oil, and Venice turpentine, of each 1 pound; shavings of red saunders wood, 1 ounce. Boil to the consistence of a thin ointment, and strain. 24 grains aloin, 12 grains resin of podophyllin, and 4 minims oleo-resin of ginger. Make into 24 pills. Dose, the same as directed in the last receipt.
Or: Yellow wax, 4 ounces; olive oil and