Decoction of Woods

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Historical use wording: the venereal difeafe, and may fupply the place of Lilbon diet drink

Source: Buchan's Domestic medicine modernized; or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicine : containing, ... observations on the comparative advantages of vaccine inoculation, ... an essay, enabling ruptured persons to manage themselves ... a family herbal: and such useful discoveries in medicine and surgery as have transpired since the demise of the late William Buchan by Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1809), narrative-offset-1458019.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Woods: of farl'aparilla, three ounces; li- quorice and mezereon root, of each half an ounce; lhavings of guaiaciim and faffafras wood, of each oue'ounce; crude antimony, powdered, an ounce apd a half, liifule thele ingredient.^ in eight pints of boiling water lor twerity-four hours, then

Method as extracted

1. Boil according to the source passage: For all thefe intentions it is greatly preferable to ihe Decoction of Woods. — This decodiion may be taken, from a pint and a half to two quarts in the day. — I’he following decodlion is laid to be (imilar lolhatul'ed by Keniiedi/, in the cure of the venereal difeafe, and may fupply the place of Lilbon diet drink; Take of farl'aparilla, three ounces; li- quorice and mezereon root, of each half an ounce; lhavings of guaiaciim and faffafras wood, of each oue'ounce; crude antimony, powdered, an ounce apd a half, liifule thele ingredient.^ in eight pints of boiling water lor twerity-four hours, then boil them till one halfof liie water is coiil'umed ; afterwards drain ihit decodtion. — This decoction may be ufed in the lame manner as the preceding.

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