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I a. Jn approved Depilatory^ or a Fluid p^ 

 taking off the Hair, 



Take Polypode of the Oak, cut Into 

 very fmall pieces ; put them into a glafs 

 veiTcl, and pouronthem as much Lifbon, 

 or French White Wine, as will rife about 

 an inch above the ingredients •, digell in 

 balneo Marise (or a bath of hot water) for 

 twenty-four hours ; thendiftiloff the liquor 

 by the heat of boiling water, till the whole 

 has come over the helm. A linen ciorh 

 v.'etted with this fluid, may be applied to 

 the part on which the hairs grows, and 

 kept on it all night ; repeating the appli- 

 cation periodically till the hair falls ofl' 



The diftilled water of the Leaves and 

 lloois of Celandine, applied in the f^ime 

 manner, has the like efFcd. 



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