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Decoction of feneka

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Source: Domestic medicine; or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix containing a dispensatory by Buchan, William, 1729-1805 (1807), narrative-offset-866000.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • feneka: of zedoary-root two drachms; dried fquills, rhubarb, and juniper-berries bruifed, of each a drachm; cinnamon in powder, three drachms; felt of worm- — wood, a crachm and a half; infufe in an Englifh pint and a half of old heck wine, and, when fit for ufe, 2 if | Boba > filtex 376 OF THE DROPSY: filter the liquor

Method as extracted

  1. Boil according to the source passage: It pramotes the difcharges by ftool and urine, and will at-eaft palliate, if it does not. perform a cure. The patient may begin by taking an | ounce every fecond or third day, and may increafe the quantity to two or even to three on if the ftomach _ will bear it. ‘This quantity is not, however, to be taken at once, but divided into three or four dofes. | _ To promote perfpivation, the patient may ufe the . decoction of feneka-root, as directed above; or he may take two table-fpoonfuls of Mindererus’s fpirit in a cup of wine-whey three or four times a-day. To promote a difcharge of urine, the following infufion of the Lon- ~ don hofpitals will likewife be beneficial: = Take of zedoary-root two drachms; dried fquills, rhubarb, and juniper-berries bruifed, of each a drachm; cinnamon in powder, three drachms; felt of worm- — wood, a crachm and a half; infufe in an Englifh pint and a half of old heck wine, and, when fit for ufe, 2 if | Boba > filtex 376 OF THE DROPSY: filter the liquor.

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Primary and supporting references

  1. Domestic medicine; or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix containing a dispensatory — Domestic medicine; or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix containing a dispensatoryPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at narrative-offset-866000.
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