Infusion of lime- tree and elder

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Source: Domestic medicine : or, a treatise for the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines : With an appendix, containing a dispensatory for private practitioners. ... containing new treatises on sea-bathing, mineral waters, vaccine, inoculation, &c., &c. by Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1860), narrative-offset-453721.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• lime- tree and elder: one drachm of Virginian snake- root in powder; of camphire and assafoetida, ten grains each ; of opium, one grain ; and with a suf- ficient quantity of conserve, or rob of elder, make a bolus

Method as extracted

1. Infuse according to the source passage: Every three hours a dose of Cob’s powder should be taken in a cup of the infusion of lime- tree and elder flowers. This powder is made by rubbing together in a mortar, to a very fine powder, of native and factitious cinnabar, each twenty-four grains; of musk, sixteen grains. The following bolus is to be given every night, and to be repeated in the morning, if the patient be not easy ; washing it down with the infusion men- tioned above: take one drachm of Virginian snake- root in powder; of camphire and assafoetida, ten grains each ; of opium, one grain ; and with a suf- ficient quantity of conserve, or rob of elder, make a bolus.

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