Decoction of Fruit elliptical

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Source: The London dispensatory by Thomson, Anthony Todd, 1778-1849 (1811), materia-1387-1.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Fruit elliptical: They are given dried in the form of powder; or 2 decoction made by boiling two drachms of the recent leaves, or half adrachm of the dried, in half a pint of water for fifteen minutes; ora syrup made with the expressed juice of the re~ cent leaves moistened with vinegar, which is supposed to cor- rect the violent effects of the drug. The dose of the powder is from grs. vj to 3}; of the decoc- tion 3}; and of the syrup

Method as extracted

1. Boil according to the source passage: They are given dried in the form of powder; or 2 decoction made by boiling two drachms of the recent leaves, or half adrachm of the dried, in half a pint of water for fifteen minutes; ora syrup made with the expressed juice of the re~ cent leaves moistened with vinegar, which is supposed to cor- rect the violent effects of the drug. The dose of the powder is from grs. vj to 3}; of the decoc- tion 3}; and of the syrup a tea-spoonful at bed-time, and one or two in the morning, to children betwixt two and six years of age, on two or three successive days.

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