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Marseilles Vinegar
Also called vinaigre de quatre voleurs, or thieves' vincvinaigre de quatre voleurs, or thieves vincgar. Dried tops of large and small wormwood, rosemary, sage, mint, rue, lavender-flowers, lowing is an improvement by Mr. Groves, on of each 2 ounces; calamus root, cinnamon, the receipt of Dr. Ogden. Take chloroform, 4 cloves, nutmeg, garlic, of each ounce; drachms; ether, 14 drachms; oil of peppercamphor, ounce; concentrated acetic acid, mint, 8 drops; resin of Indian hemp, 16 grains; 2 ounces; strong vinegar, 8 pounds. Mace- capsicum, 2 grains; macerate for 2 or 3 days, rate the herbs , &c., in the vinegar for 2 and filter. Then dissolve hydrochlorate of weeks, strain , press, and add the camphor morphia, 16 grains, in 1 ounce of syrup; add dissolved in the acetic acid. It is said that perchloric acid and water, drachm each, this medicated vinegar was invented by assisting the solution by a water-bath; then, four thieves of Marseilles, who successfully when cold, add hydrocyanic acid (Scheele's), employed it as a disinfectant during a visita- 96 drops. Mix the solutions. tion of pestilence.