Infusion of INFUSIONS

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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-1399230.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• INFUSIONS: tops of the lesser centaury and camomile flowers, of each half an ounce ; yellow rind of lemon aud orange peel, carefully freed from the inner white part, of each two drachms

Method as extracted

1. Infuse according to the source passage: Vegetables yield nearly the same properties to water by infusion as by decoction; and though they may require a longer time to give out their virtues in this way, yet it has several advantages over the other ; since boiling is found to dissipate the finer parts of many bitter and aromatic substances, without more fully extracting their medicinal prin- ciples.—The author of the New Dispensatory observes, that even from those vegetables which are weak in virtue, rich infusions may be obtained, by returning the liquor upon fresh quantities of the subject, the water loading itself more and more with the active parts ; and that these loaded infusions are applicable to valuable purposes in medicine; as they con- tain in a small compass the finer, more subtile, and active principles of vegetables, in a form readily miscible with the fluids of the human body. Bitter Infusion.— Take tops of the lesser centaury and camomile flowers, of each half an ounce ; yellow rind of lemon aud orange peel, carefully freed from the inner white part, of each two drachms.

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