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Source: The dispensatory of the United States of America by Wood, George B. (George Bacon), 1797-1879 (1849), narrative-offset-3490498.
Ingredients or materials as extracted
- Zittmann: If prepared with good sarsaparilla, and with a due regard to the practical rules which may now be considered as established, the decoction may be used with great advantage as a gentle diaphoretic and alterative in secondary: syphilis, either alone, or as an adjuvant to a mercurial course; also in certain scrofulous and other depraved conditions of the system, in chronic rheuma- tism, and in various obstinate cutaneou
Method as extracted
- Boil according to the source passage: If prepared with good sarsaparilla, and with a due regard to the practical rules which may now be considered as established, the decoction may be used with great advantage as a gentle diaphoretic and alterative in secondary: syphilis, either alone, or as an adjuvant to a mercurial course; also in certain scrofulous and other depraved conditions of the system, in chronic rheuma- tism, and in various obstinate cutaneous affections. - The dose is from four to six fluidounces three or four times a day. The patient during its use should wear flannel next the skin, and Brora unnecessary exposure to changes of temperature.* W. * The Decoction of Zittmann (Decoctum Zittmanni) is a preparation of sarsaparilla much used in Germany, for similar purposes with our compound decoction of sarsapa- rilla; and, as it has attracted some attention in this country as a remedy in obstinate ulcerative affections, we give the formula of the Prussian Pharmacopeia, which is gene- rally followed in its preparation:
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- The dispensatory of the United States of America — The dispensatory of the United States of AmericaPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at narrative-offset-3490498.