Decoction (^Sarsaparilla

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Source: Buchan enlarged. Domestic medicine; or, The family physician, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines: With an appendix containing a dispensatory. For the use of private practitioners. To which is added ... rules and regulations to be observed ... in the management of infants, etc by Buchan, William, 1729-1805. n 82060399 (1818), paragraph-4724.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• of fresh sarsaparilla root, sliced and bruised, two ounces; shavings of guaiacum wood, one ounce
• Boil over a slow fire in three quarts of water, to one: adding towards the end half an ounce of sassafras wood, and three drams of liquorice
• This decoction may be taken, from a pint and a half, to two quarts in tl)e day
• of sarsaparilla, three ounces; liquorice and mezereon root, of each half an ounce ; shavings of guaiacum and sassafras wood, of each one ounce ; crude antimony, powdered, an ounce and a half

Method as extracted

1. Take of fresh sarsaparilla root, sliced and bruised, two ounces; shavings of guaiacum wood, one ounce.
2. Boil over a slow fire in three quarts of water, to one: adding towards the end half an ounce of sassafras wood, and three drams of liquorice.
3. Strain the decoction.
4. Take of sarsaparilla, three ounces; liquorice and mezereon root, of each half an ounce ; shavings of guaiacum and sassafras wood, of each one ounce ; crude antimony, powdered, an ounce and a half.
5. Infuse these in- gredients in eight pints of boiling water for twenty-four hours, then boil them till one half of the water is consumed ; afterwards strain the decoction.

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