EAU DE COLOGNE. - Virtues and effects of the excellent eau admirable or eau de Cologne. Approved by the Faculty of Medicine. January 3, 1731. 4 pages in-4, in sheets, and one sheet in-folio bearing on one page the advertisement for the admirable water called Cologne by Jean-Marie Farina, former distiller of Cologne. Paris, Rue Saint-Honoré 333, vis-à-vis du marché Saint-Honoré, s.d. (circa 1827).
The long enumeration of the medical benefits of eau de Cologne (61 lines) ends with this observation: "The goodness and usefulness [of this water] are enough to keep Jean-Marie Farina the fame he has acquired by dint of hard work and pain.
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