Decoction of Pure oils

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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. To which are added, such useful discoveries ... as have transpired since the demise of the author by Buchan, William, 1729-1805. n 82060399 (1813), materia-453-24.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Pure oils: an ounce of marshmallow roots, and two or three figs

Method as extracted

1. Boil according to the source passage: Emollient Gargle. — Take an ounce of marshmallow roots, and two or three figs : boil them in a quart of water till near one half of it be con- sumed ; then strain out the liquor. — If an ounce of honey, and half an ounce of water of ammonia, be added to the above, it will then be an exceeding good attenuating gargle. — This gargle is beneficial in fevers* where the tongue ana fauces are rough and parched, to soften these parts* and promote the discharge of saliva. — The learned and accurate Sir John Pringle observes, that in the inflammatory quinsy, or strangulation of the fauces, little benefit arises from the common gargles ; that such as are of an acid nature do more harm than good, by contracting the emunctories of the saliva and mucus, and thickening those humours ; that a decoction of figs in milk and water has a contrary effect, especially if some sal-am- moniac be added, by which the saliva is made thinner, and the glands brought to secrete more freely ; a circumstance always conducive to the cure.

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