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Pow-Wows, or Long Lost Friend, by John George Hoffman, [1820], at sacred-texts.com


TO MAKE A GOOD EYE-WATER.

Take four cents' worth of white vitriol, four cents' worth of prepared spicewort (calamus root), four cents'

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worth of cloves, a gill of good whiskey and a gill of water. Make the calamus fine and mix all together; then use it after it has stood a few hours.


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