Infusion for the Palsy

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Historical use wording: the Palsy

Source: Domestic medicine : or, 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 by Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1820), paragraph-4737.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• of horse-radish root shaved, mustard seed bruised, each four ounces ; outer rind of orange-peel, one ounce
• Infuse them in two quarts of boiling water, in a close vessel, for twenty-four hours
• If two or three ounces of the dried leaves of marsh trefoil be used instead of the mustard, it will make the Antiscorbutic Infusion
• of camphor, one dram ; rectified spirit of wine, ten drops ; double-refined sugar, half an ounce ; boiling distilled water, one pint

Method as extracted

1. Take of horse-radish root shaved, mustard seed bruised, each four ounces ; outer rind of orange-peel, one ounce.
2. Infuse them in two quarts of boiling water, in a close vessel, for twenty-four hours.
3. Take of camphor, one dram ; rectified spirit of wine, ten drops ; double-refined sugar, half an ounce ; boiling distilled water, one pint.
4. Rub the camphor first with the spirit of wine, then with the sugar ; lastly add the water by degrees, and strain the liquor.

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