" Take of Catechu, four ounces ; Cinnamon bark, two ounces

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Source: The London dispensatory [electronic resource] : containing, I. The elements of pharmacy; II. The botanical description, natural history,chemical analysis, and medicinal properties, of the substances of the materia medica; III. The pharmaceutical preparations and compositions of the pharmacopoeiasof the London, the Edinburgh, and the Dublin colleges of physicians : the whole forming a practical synopsis of materia medica, pharmacy, and therapeutics, illustrated with many useful tables and copper- by Thomson, Anthony Todd, 1778-1849; University of Glasgow. Library; University of Glasgow. Library (1822), paragraph-10286.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• " Take of Catechu, four ounces
• Cinnamon bark, two ounces :
• Kino, three ounces; rub them to powder, and add, of hard re- fined Opium diffused in Spanish white Wine, a drachm and a half :
• Syrup of Ginger boiled to the consistence of honey, two pounds and a quarter
• Ten scruples contain one grain of opium

Method as extracted

1. Mix them." These are useful combinations of astringents and aromatics;
2. Rub them together until they be well incorporated."

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