" Thieves' Vinegar."
Marseilles or thieves' vinegar, as it is called, is pronounced infallable as a preventive of cholera. It was invented during a season of pestilence by four thieves, who spent their timo plundering the dying and the dead, with no fear of infection, the vinegar with which they supplied themsclvea being a successful disinfectant. Their recipe, which is in use to-d»y, was as follows — Dried tops of large and small wormwood, rosemary, Bage, mint, rue, lavender flowers, two ounces of each ; calamus root, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, garlic, one fourth of an ounce each ; camphor, one half ounce ; concentrated acetic aoid, two ounces; Btrong vinegar, eight pounds. Macerate the herbs in the vinegar for two weeks, strain, press, and add the camphor dissolved in the acetic aoid. The thieve*' vinegar is used as a perfume about the person, or dropped in the water for bathing purposes. A little of it burned on a shovel will deodorize a room.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1973, 28 February 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)
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158"Thieves' Vinegar." Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1973, 28 February 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)
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