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Source: The pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh by Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. n 82024440 (1841), paragraph-1716.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Extract of Taraxacum, five parts
• Conserve of Red roses, two parts
• Liquorice-root powder, three parts
• of Mercury, two parts :
• Liquorice-root, in powder, one part
• Conserve of Red roses, three parts
• of the Powder of Ipecacuan and Opium, three parts

Method as extracted

1. Beat them together into a proper mass, which is to be divided into five-grain pills.
2. Take of Mercury, two parts :
3. Beat the mercury and conserve into a uni- form mass till globules of mercury can no longer be detected, then add the liquorice- root, and beat the whole again into a proper mass, which is to be divided into five-grain pills.
4. Take of the Powder of Ipecacuan and Opium, three parts.

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