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Mettauer's Aperient Solution
drachms essential oil of turpentine, and 1 Take of socotrine aloes, 2½ ounces; super-scruple crude alum. Mix well. This plaster carbonate of soda, 6 drachms; water, 4 pints; was much used by an old surgeon of Morello, compound spirits of lavender, 2 ounces. and by his sons, for the cure of wounds with- After digesting 14 days, the clear liquor out the loss of substance. The composition, may be either decanted or allowed to re- which they kept secret. is now published to main. Age is said to improve both the pow- the world by M. Escorihuela. He obtained ers and taste of the solution. The common the secret from one of the heirs.