Infusion of colt's-foot

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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), narrative-offset-778468.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• colt's-foot: prepared natron three drachms, powder of cinchona one ounce and a half, thin mucilage of gum-arabic enough to form an electuary

Method as extracted

1. Infuse according to the source passage: Lime-water may be employed both exter- nally and internally in cases of scrophula, for which it is not a con- temptible remedy. The decoction or a strong infusion of colt's-foot leaves, or the compound decoction of sarsaparilla, may be taken with a scruple or half a drachm of burnt sponge, or a large tea-spoonful or two of the following electuary : ' Take prepared natron three drachms, powder of cinchona one ounce and a half, thin mucilage of gum-arabic enough to form an electuary.

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