Tincture of a tea-spoonful of cayenne

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Source: A dispensatory, or commentary on the pharmacopoeias of Great Britain : comprising the natural history, description, chemistry, pharmacy, actions, uses, and doses of the articles of the materia medica by Royal College of Physicians of London (1848), narrative-offset-963692.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• a tea-spoonful of cayenne: An incipient attack of common sore-throat without fever, in persons predisposed to that affection, may be often checked at once by a cayenne gargle made as strong as the patient can bear it. For these purposes the best preparation is an infusion of a tea-spoonful of cayenne in six fluidounces of boiling-water, or two drachms of the officinal tincture to four or eight ounces of cold water.

Method as extracted

1. Macerate according to the source passage: An incipient attack of common sore-throat without fever, in persons predisposed to that affection, may be often checked at once by a cayenne gargle made as strong as the patient can bear it. For these purposes the best preparation is an infusion of a tea-spoonful of cayenne in six fluidounces of boiling-water, or two drachms of the officinal tincture to four or eight ounces of cold water.

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