Diuretic Mixture.— Take of mintiwater, five ounces; vinegar of squills, six drachms ; spirit of

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Source: Domestic medicine, or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines : containing observations on the comparative advantages of vaccine inoculation, with instructions for performing the operation, an essay, enabling puptured [sic] persons to manage themselves, with engravings of bandages, which every person may prepare for himself, and a family herbal by Buchan, William, 1729-1805; Green, S. B., Mrs., Provenance; University of Bristol. Library (1823), paragraph-4304.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Diuretic Mixture.— Take of mintiwater, five ounces; vinegar of squills, six drachms ; spirit of nitrous ether, half an ounce ; syrup of ginger, an ounce and a half
• Saline Mixture.— Dissolve a drachm of the salt of tartar in four ounces of boiling water, and, when cold, drop into it vitriolic acid tiU the et- fervescence ceases; then add, of peppermint-water, two ounces ; simpie syrup, one ounce.— Where fresh lemons cannot be had this mixture may occasionally supply the place of the saline julep
• Squill Mixture.-Take simple cinnamon-water, five ounces; ymegar of squills, one ounce; syrup of marshmallows, an ounce and a halt

Method as extracted

1. Mix them.— In obstructions of the urinary passages, two spoonfuls of this mixture may be taken twice or thrice a-day.

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