Decoction of the Bark

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Source: Domestic medicine : or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines : With observations concerning sea-bathing, and on the use of the mineral waters. To which is annexed, a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners by Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1813), paragraph-5311.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Boil an ounce of the Peruvian bark, grofsly powdered, m a pint and a half of water to one pint; then (train the de- codtion
• of Peruvian bark, and Virginian fnake-root, grofsly powdered, each three drachms
• of frelh farfaparilla root, (licet and bruited, two ounces; (havings of guaiacum-wood, one ounce
• Boil over a How fire, in three quarts of water, to one; adding to- wards the end, half an ounce of fafiafras-wood, and three drachms of liquorice

Method as extracted

1. Boil an ounce of the Peruvian bark, grofsly powdered, m a pint and a half of water to one pint; then (train the de- codtion.
2. Take of Peruvian bark, and Virginian fnake-root, grofsly powdered, each three drachms.
3. Boil them in a pint of water to one half.
4. Take of frelh farfaparilla root, (licet and bruited, two ounces; (havings of guaiacum-wood, one ounce.
5. Boil over a How fire, in three quarts of water, to one; adding to- wards the end, half an ounce of fafiafras-wood, and three drachms of liquorice.
6. Strain the decoftion.

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