Glauber’i Tincture of Steeh

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Source: The dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in London: [translated] with some notes relating to manner of composition, and remarks on the changes made in most of the officinal medicines, from their first prescribers down to the present practice by Quincy, John, -1722 (1727), paragraph-2087.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• of Rheniffi Tartar, and the Filings of Steel, each four Ounces 5 make them into a fine Powder, and boil them in a fufficient Quantity of Spring Water in an Iron Pot , that two Gallons may remain after thirty fix Hours boil¬ ing :
• Filter that hot, and then evaporate it to five Pints. c< This hath not before had the Reputation of a sc place in any officinal Difpenfatory that I have ee met with, nor hath it yet obtained enough in 6i Pra&ice to be met with in the Shops
• of the Chalybiated Flowers of Sal Ammo¬ niac one Ounce; of French Brandy four Ounces a digeft and ftrain. <c This is much eafier than the ufual Proceflfes et before ordered, with the Sal Ammoniac and Fi- a lings of Steel, and hath in every refpe& the fame ee Medicinal Virtues,

Method as extracted

1. Take of Rheniffi Tartar, and the Filings of Steel, each four Ounces 5 make them into a fine Powder, and boil them in a fufficient Quantity of Spring Water in an Iron Pot , that two Gallons may remain after thirty fix Hours boil¬ ing :
2. Filter that hot, and then evaporate it to five Pints. c< This hath not before had the Reputation of a sc place in any officinal Difpenfatory that I have ee met with, nor hath it yet obtained enough in 6i Pra&ice to be met with in the Shops.
3. Take of the Chalybiated Flowers of Sal Ammo¬ niac one Ounce; of French Brandy four Ounces a digeft and ftrain. <c This is much eafier than the ufual Proceflfes et before ordered, with the Sal Ammoniac and Fi- a lings of Steel, and hath in every refpe& the fame ee Medicinal Virtues,

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