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[Eau de mille-fleurs which made Kings' cat dance]
1Faculte de medecine et de pharmacie de Rouen.
Revue D'Histoire De La Pharmacie
|October 20, 2001
Abstract:
King Louis XV had a cat and some of his courtiers forced it to dance using eau de mille-fleurs (thousand flowers water). This name was given both to cow urine and to the distilled water obtained from cow dung. In this case, the medicine used was George Bate's eau de mille-fleurs, which contained alcohol.