2008-04-03

robot_mel: (Books)
2008-04-03 12:05 pm

"Liquor of Opium"

Liquor of Opium
Take of powdered Opium 1 1/2 ounce, lemon juice 1 1/2 pint; infuse and evaporate to 15 ounces, add 5 ounces of rectified spirit, filter after standing twenty-four hours. [Similar to the once celebrated Black Drops].

From,

Chemists and Druggists Compendium, Cheap Edition

by R. Jones Owen

1871

With an ad in the begining for Liebig Company's "Extract of Meat"
(Actualy, called lie big!)