Decoction of Cinchona

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Historical use wording: ordinary Decoction of the Cinchona

Source: Domestic medicine, or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines : containing observations on the comparative advantages of vaccine inoculation, with instructions for performing the operation, an essay, enabling puptured [sic] persons to manage themselves, with engravings of bandages, which every person may prepare for himself, and a family herbal by Buchan, William, 1729-1805; Green, S. B., Mrs., Provenance; University of Bristol. Library (1823), narrative-offset-1379456.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Cinchona: of camomile flowers, one ounce • elder flo«^rs and sweet fennel seeds, of each half an ounce water two quarts

Method as extracted

1. Boil according to the source passage: If the roots be thoroughly dried thev must be boiled till one half of the water be consumed.— In coughs and sharp defluxions upon the lungs, this decoction may be used for ordinary Decoction of the Cinchona.— Boil an ounce of Peruvian bark, grossly powdered, in a pmt and a half of water to one pint; then strain the decoction. If a tea-spoonful of the diluted acid of vitriol be added to this medicme, it will render it both more agreeable and efficacious Compound Decoction of Peruvian Bark, or Cinchona.— Take of cin chona and Virginian snake-root, grossly powdered, each three drachms" o,H H t f^V^ strained liquor add ounce and a half of aromatic water.-Sir John Pringle recommends this as a proper medicine towards the decline of malignant fevers, when tli pulse IS low, the voice weak, and the head affected^ith a stupor, but w th httle delirium -The dose is four spoonfuls every fourth or sixth hour M.r l ^ Clyster.-Take of camomile flowers, one ounce • elder flo«^rs and sweet fennel seeds, of each half an ounce water two quarts.

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