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Source: Domestic medicine. 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 by Buchan, William, 1729-1805. n 82060399 (1824), paragraph-1793.
Ingredients or materials as extracted
- See Appendix, Electuary of Catechu and White Decoction. t When the patient is low, ten grains of Virginian snakeroot, and the same quantity of contrayerva root, with five grains of camphor, and the same of Russian castor, all in fine powder, maybe made into a bolus with a little of the cordial confection of syrup of saffron
- The following powder may be used with the same intention : take wild valerian root in powder, one scruple ; saffron and castor, each four grains
Method as extracted
- Mix these by rubbing them together in a mortar, and give one in a cup of wine whey, three or four times a day.
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Primary and supporting references
- Domestic medicine. 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 — Domestic medicine. 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 practitionersPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-1793.