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Receipt for Cold

Mrs. J. B. Riley.

One pound of liverwort put into four quarts of water and boiled down to one quart; add, while warm, a quarter pound of ball liquorice and a quarter pound of loaf sugar; when cool add a half pint of gin. Dose-half a large wineglass half an hour before each meal.

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