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To Detect Blood-stains

It is Intermittent Fever. Take 40 grains sulsaid by Professor Bloxam, of London, that a phate of quinine, 30 grains powdered liquormixture of tincture of guaiacum and a solu- ice, and 10 grains gum myrrh. Make into 40 tion of peroxide of hydrogen in ether produces pills. Take 2 pills every 2 hours for the first instantly, with blood or blood stains, a beau- 24 hours; 2 pills every 4 hours for the secon tiful tint of blue. He had taken a single lint 24 hours; and the remainder, 1 at night on fibre, on which was a stain of blood scarcely perceptible, that had been made twenty years before, and he found that the test produced immediately the characteristic blue color, which was easily detected on a microscopic examination. (See No. 4393.) 1.d going to bed, and 1 in the morning, first thing.

This performs an effectual cure if the directions are implicitly followed. (Trent.) 6421. Το Remove Tar or Pitch from the Skin. Mix together pulverized extract of liquorice, and oil of aniseed to the consist-

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