TINCTURA CARDAMOMI COMPOSITA— Compound Tincture OF Cardamoms

Historical preparation record

This formula was extracted from a rights-cleared historical primary source and is preserved as an archival record. Historical terminology, identity, strength and safety require modern interpretation.

Source: Note-book of materia medica, pharmacology, and therapeutics/ by R.E. Scoresby-Jackson by Scoresby-Jackson, R. E. (Robert Edmund), 1835-1867; Macdonald, Angus, 1836-1886; Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1871), paragraph-4630.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• TINCTURA CARDAMOMI COMPOSITA— Compound Tincture OF Cardamoms. — Take of cardamom seeds, freed from the pericarps and bruised, 5 ounce; caraway fruit, bruised, \ ounce; raisins, freed fro ra their seeds, 2 ounces; cinnamon bark, bruised, 4 ounce; cochineal, in powder, 60 grains; proof spirit, 1 pint
• Macerate the solid, ingredients for forty- eight hours in fifteen fluid ounces of the spirit, in a closed vessel, agitating occasionally; then transfer to a percolator, and when the fluid ceases to pass, continue the percolation with the remaining five ounces of spirit
• Aftericards subject the contents of the percolator to pressure, filter the product, mix the liquids, and add sufficient proof spirit to make one pint

Method as extracted

1. Macerate the solid, ingredients for forty- eight hours in fifteen fluid ounces of the spirit, in a closed vessel, agitating occasionally; then transfer to a percolator, and when the fluid ceases to pass, continue the percolation with the remaining five ounces of spirit.

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