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COUGH MIXTURE

Dissolve one-fourth pound gum-arabic in half-pint boil-- ing water, add a half tea-cup sugar and honey, and two table-spoons lemon juice, steep for five or ten minutes; bottle and cork, add water, and take; or boil one ounce each of licorice-stick and anise-seed, and half ounce senna in one quart of water, ten minutes; strain, add two tea-cups molasses or honey, boil down to a pint and then bottle; or, to one pint whisky add one-half pound rock candy and two ounces glycerine.