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| William H. Harris, of Corry, Penn., registered a Patent for this preparation in 1867 (Patent #62,328). He called his invention a composition for "Preserving and Restoring the Human Hair." The ingredients were: 1 quart of pure water, 1 gill of bay rum, 1 gill of alcohol, 1/2 ounce of capsicum tincture, 1/2 ounce of tincture of cantharides (Spanish fly,) 1/2 ounce of glycerine, 4 ounces of grape wine juice, 1/2 ounce of burnt sugar, ten drops of oil egg, thirty grains of sulfate of cadmium, and 1 drachm of lac sulphur. The only instructions given were that when the ingredients were combined, the sulfate of cadmium should be added last. I found a Laura T. Harris listed in Corry Penn. as a Hair Dresser in 1873, but no listing of William. This William H. Harris was probably the father of William Harris). The bottle for this preparation looks just like a later Mrs S.A. Allen's bottle, but it's aqua. I had one in my own collection.
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