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An excellent dye, as well as most serviceable hair-wash.
Take 1 drachm lac sulphur, 1/2 drachm sugar lead, 4 ounces rose water. Mix carefully. Wash the hair repeatedly, till it assumes the desired shade. (See Nos. 270, 1295, 147.)
 
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