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Seidlitz Water, Bottled
Take a sufficient number of soda-water bottles, and fill them with clear water; then add the following ingredients, and cork and wire the bottles immediately. Two drachms of Rochelle salts, thirty-five grains of bicarbonate of soda, and eleven drops of sulphuric acid.