Sweating Powder, N° I

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Source: Pharmacopoeia officinalis et extemporanea: or, a compleat English dispensatory. In two parts. Theoretic and practical. Part I in two books ... Part II in five books ... by Quincy, John, -1722. n 85067259 (1782), paragraph-9597.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• ipecacuanha, liquorice, and opium, of each one ounce; nitre, and vitriolated tartar, of each four ounces
• four ounces of nitre, and the fame quantity of vitriolated tartar
• a crucible (not ot the blue fort) fet it in the fire ; and when it be- gins to be red, put in above half of your nitre and tartar ; ftirring it about with an iron rod

Method as extracted

1. Take ipecacuanha, liquorice, and opium, of each one ounce; nitre, and vitriolated tartar, of each four ounces.
2. Take four ounces of nitre, and the fame quantity of vitriolated tartar.
3. Rub them together, in a mortar, into a powder.
4. Take a crucible (not ot the blue fort) fet it in the fire ; and when it be- gins to be red, put in above half of your nitre and tartar ; ftirring it about with an iron rod.
5. Then pour it into an iron mortar ; and, when cool, add to it opium, liquorice, and ipecacuanha, in powder, of each an ounce : pound and lift them through a fine lawn fieve, and mix them well together.

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