Infusion of angustura or cascarilla

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Source: Modern domestic medicine ... to which is added a domestic materia medica by Graham, Thomas John, 1795?-1876. n 85029309 (1832), narrative-offset-1521247.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• angustura or cascarilla: of ipecacuan wine, one or two drachms ; Glauber’s salt, one drachm; infusion of angustura or cascarilla bark, ten drachms.™ Mix for a draught ; to be taken, in the beginning, every second hour, and after it has checked the bleeding, twice or thrice a day, so as to keep up a gentle action on the bowels

Method as extracted

1. Infuse according to the source passage: Should the nausea excited by the following draught be insuffi- cient, or the bowels be too much acted upon, the dose of ipecacuan may be increased, or that of the salts lessened, ac- cordingly, and vice versa, since the proper manner of using this form is, to combine the medicines in such proportions as will act mildly, yet sufficiently, in the way just now described. Take of ipecacuan wine, one or two drachms ; Glauber’s salt, one drachm; infusion of angustura or cascarilla bark, ten drachms.™ Mix for a draught ; to be taken, in the beginning, every second hour, and after it has checked the bleeding, twice or thrice a day, so as to keep up a gentle action on the bowels.

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