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16. An approved Depilatory, or a Fluid for 

 taking off the Hair, 



Take Polypody of the Oak, cut into 

 very f mall pieces; put them into a glafs 

 veffel, and pour on them as much Lifbon, 

 or French White Wine, as will rile about 

 an inch above the ingredients : digeft in 

 balneo Maris (or a bath of hot water) for 

 twenty-four hours ; then diftil off the liquor 

 by the heat of boiling water, till the whole 

 has come over the helm. A linen cloth 

 wetted with with this fluid, may be ap- 

 plied to the part on which the hair grows, 

 and kept on it all night ; repeating the ap- 

 plication periodically till the hair falls off. 



The diflilled water of the Leaves and 

 Roots of Celandine, applied in the fame 

 manner, has the like effedt, 



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