Infusion of liquorice

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Source: The medical guide, for the use of the clergy, heads of families and practitioners in medicine and surgery [electronic resource] : comprising a domestic dispensatory and practical treatise on the symptoms, causes, prevention, and cure of the diseases incident to the human frame, with the latest discoveries in medicine by Reece, Richard, 1775-1831; Sloggatt, S. B., active 1828 former owner; St. Thomas's Hospital. Medical School Library former owner; King's College London (1817), narrative-offset-131365.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• liquorice: See Tonic Powder, No. 91

Method as extracted

1. Infuse according to the source passage: If the full dose disagree with the stomach and bowels, so as to produce vomiting' or looseness, three or four drops of laudanum should be given with every or every other dose, and two or three grains of Jamaica ginger, or five of cinnamon powder, if it oppress the stomach. (See Tonic Powder, No. 91.) The powder may be taken either in camphorated julep or peppermint-water; or, in order to cover its ill taste, to which some people have an almost invincible dislike, in an infusion of liquorice root, or in milk, which I have found to answer best.

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