EAU-DE-COLOGNE DRINKING.
The very idea of drinking a perfume, forsooth, would seem to be almost too absurd to suggest. Yet medical men know only too well how many of their patients, more particularly among the weaker sex, take eau-de-cologne to excess, and to such an excess too as to compel, in some instances, their being relegated to retreats specially established for the treatment of dispomaniacs. When it is known of what the odoriferous compound in question is distilled (say the Temperance Record) it will be roadily admitted that an incalculable dandanger may be the outcome of a continual use of it as a stimulant. The following is. a recipe said to be adopted in the manufactories of the Farina family at Cologne: — Twelve drops of the essential oils neroli, citron, bergamot, orange, and rosemary; one drachm of Malabar cardamoms, and one gallon of rectified spirit. .We have only to mention that spirits of wine along with methylated spirits are resorted to by habitual drunkards in the last stage of their complaint, to make it appear self-evident that the strength of the eau-de-oologne must be greater than that of the wines or spirits in common use, and that it is consequently more deleterious in its effects upon those who regularly imbibe it.
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Bush Advocate, Volume I, Issue 11, 31 May 1888, Page 2
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211EAU-DE-COLOGNE DRINKING. Bush Advocate, Volume I, Issue 11, 31 May 1888, Page 2
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