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Source: Domestic medicine and surgery : with a glossary of the terms used therein by Walsh, J. H. (John Henry), 1810-1888 (1875), narrative-offset-973310.
Ingredients or materials as extracted
- Senna: Macerate for two hours and strain the liquor ; lastly, add six drachms of sugar. (6) Therapeuticaleffects. — Astringent, refrigerant, and antiseptic. (c) Used as a drink in fevers ; also as a vehicle for sulphate of magnesia, quinine, &c. (d) Dose. — to 2 ounces. (.M) Infusion of Senna (.compound). — Senna tea. (а) Macerate 15 drachma of senna leaves, and 4 scruples of bruised ginger, in a pint of boiling water for a
Method as extracted
- Infuse according to the source passage: Macerate for two hours and strain the liquor ; lastly, add six drachms of sugar. (6) Therapeuticaleffects. — Astringent, refrigerant, and antiseptic. (c) Used as a drink in fevers ; also as a vehicle for sulphate of magnesia, quinine, &c. (d) Dose. — to 2 ounces. (.M) Infusion of Senna (.compound). — Senna tea. (а) Macerate 15 drachma of senna leaves, and 4 scruples of bruised ginger, in a pint of boiling water for an hour, in a closed vessel, and strain. (б) Therapetitical effects. — ^Aperient, (c) Used as a vehicle for more active purgatives, which it assists ; or by itself as a mild purgative. {(t) Dose. — 1 to 3 ounces. (N) Infusion of Valerian. (а) Macerate half an ounce of vale- rian in a pint of boilng water for half an hour, in a closed vessel, then strain. (б) nerapeutkal effects. — Antispas- modic and tonic. (c) Used. in hysteria. (d) Dose — to 2 ounces.
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- Domestic medicine and surgery : with a glossary of the terms used therein — Domestic medicine and surgery : with a glossary of the terms used thereinPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at narrative-offset-973310.