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Pomade for Incipient Baldness

to Cure Baldness. Fresh lemon juice, 1 Meit over a water-bath, 12 ounces pure veal drachm; extract of bark (by cold water), 2 grease, 5 ounces nerval balsam, 5 ounces nut- drachms; marrow, 2 ounces; tincture of can- 1 drachm; oil of lemon, 20 drops; triturate in a mortar until thoroughly mixed; oil of bergamot, 10 drops; mix. First wash then add 10 drops croton oil, and incorporate. the head with soap and water, with a little Next dissolve 3+ ounces subcarbonate of soda eau de Cologne , then rub it dry. Next mornin 1 ounce each of alcohol and distilled water; ing rub in a small lump of pomade, and reincorporate this with the pomade and perfume peat it daily. In 4 or 5 weeks the cure of to taste. baldness is effected.

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