Infusion of tamarinds and liquorice

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Source: Buchan enlarged. Domestic medicine; or, The family physician, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines: With an appendix containing a dispensatory. For the use of private practitioners. To which is added ... rules and regulations to be observed ... in the management of infants, etc by Buchan, William, 1729-1805. n 82060399 (1818), narrative-offset-821133.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• tamarinds and liquorice: any cooling purge, as Glauber’s salts, manna dissolved in an infusion of senna, or the like

Method as extracted

1. Infuse according to the source passage: A laxative clyster, with plenty of sweet oil, or fresh butter, and a spoonful or t^^^r of common salt in it, may l)e administered every two hours, and blistering-plasters applied be- tween the shoulders, and to the calves of the legs, As soon as the symptoms are a little abated, and the patient k able to swallow, he ought to drink freely of some diluting opening liquor ; as a decoction of tamarinds and liquorice, cream- tartar whey, or common whey with cream of tartar dissolved in it. Or he may take any cooling purge, as Glauber’s salts, manna dissolved in an infusion of senna, or the like.

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