A Decoction of SnaJce-rooU

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Source: Medulla medicinae universae: or, the heart's blood of medicine. Being a new compendious dispensatory, to which is added an English translation, with a comment subjoined to each prescription; and an appendix annexed concerning bleeding by Theobald, John, -1760. n 85067432 (1814), paragraph-321.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• three drams of Virginia snake- root bruised, and boil it in a pint of water to half a pint
• Blistering, in a degree propor- tioned to the extremity of the case, ought to accompany the use of it. ^ El-ectarium Adstringens, An Astringent JLleetary, • Take two ounces 'bf. powder of bole with opium, and ounces of toasted nutmegs; and, with ^ sufficient quantity of diacodium, make an 'elec tary, This is recommended in violent loose- nesses
• Half a dram, pr two scruples of it, at a dose, along with the chalk-ju* lep, generally abates those immoderate evacuations of the lower belly; and, re- peated-between whiles for a day or two, will give an effectual check to the disor- der

Method as extracted

1. Take three drams of Virginia snake- root bruised, and boil it in a pint of water to half a pint.
2. Strain it off, and add thirty drops of liquid laudanum, with a dram of sal volatile oleosum, and half an ounce of syrup of orange-peel§.

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