Ching's Yellow Worm Lozenges
Product Description
This recipe is taken directly from the book, "Lee's Priceless Recipes: 3000 Secrets for the Home, Farm, Laboratory, Workshop and Every Department of Human Endeavor" by Dr. N.T. Oliver. Published in Chicago by Laird & Lee, Publishers. Circa 1895.
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Ching's Yellow Worm Lozenges.
Fine sugar 28 pounds, calmel, washed with spirits of wine, 1 pound, saffron 4 drams; dissolve gum tragacanth sufficient to make a paste, make decoction of the saffron in 1 pint of water, strain and mix with it. Each lozenge should contain 1 grain of mercury [poison, please do not use this].
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Ching's Yellow Worm Lozenges.
Fine sugar 28 pounds, calmel, washed with spirits of wine, 1 pound, saffron 4 drams; dissolve gum tragacanth sufficient to make a paste, make decoction of the saffron in 1 pint of water, strain and mix with it. Each lozenge should contain 1 grain of mercury [poison, please do not use this].
