DIURETIC MIXTURE FOR DROPSY

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Historical use wording: DROPSY

Source: Magnacopia : a chemico-pharmaceutical library of useful and profitable information for the practitioner, chemist and druggist, surgeon-dentist, &c. &c. ; containing several hundred new forms, with comments and annotations on the pharmacopoeia, together with a variety of other information by Bateman, William; University of Leeds. Library (1839), paragraph-1209.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• decoction of broom, half a pint; cream of tartar, one ounce ; tincture of squills, two drachms
• compound squill pill, four grains ; powder of opium, half a grain ; gum benzoin, one-fourth of a grain
• one twice a-day

Method as extracted

1. Take decoction of broom, half a pint; cream of tartar, one ounce ; tincture of squills, two drachms.
2. Mix, and take a third part three times a-day.
3. Take compound squill pill, four grains ; powder of opium, half a grain ; gum benzoin, one-fourth of a grain.
4. Mix, and make a pill.
5. Take one twice a-day.

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