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This remedy for pimples includes the ingredient
'roche Allame' or aluminium sulphate which was
used in medicine as an astringent.
This remedy comes from an anonymous volume of
miscellaneous remedies and recipes dating from
the 17th and 18th centuries which forms part of
the collection of the Mackenzie family, Earls
of Cromartie.
This volume is held by the National Archives of
Scotland
(reference: GD305/1/165).
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