Tincture of digitalis

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Source: Modern domestic medicine: : a popular treatise, illustrating the symptoms, causes, distinction, and correct treatment of the diseases incident to the human frame; embracing the modern improvements in medicine. To which are added, a domestic materia medica; a copious collection of approved prescriptions, &c. &c. The whole intended as a comprehensive medical guide for the use of clergymen heads, [sic] of families, and invalids. by Graham, Thomas John, 1795?-1876. n 85029309 (1835), narrative-offset-1035305.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• digitalis: He says, “ The medicines which experience has proved to he the most beneficial here, are calomel and squill; one grain of calomel and three of squill in powder, may be formed into a pill, or two grains of blue pill with three of squill ; one of these should be administered every night, or every other night, and in the day you should give a mixture, composed of from seven to ten grains of carbonate of ammonia, one dra

Method as extracted

1. Macerate according to the source passage: He says, “ The medicines which experience has proved to he the most beneficial here, are calomel and squill; one grain of calomel and three of squill in powder, may be formed into a pill, or two grains of blue pill with three of squill ; one of these should be administered every night, or every other night, and in the day you should give a mixture, composed of from seven to ten grains of carbonate of ammonia, one drachm of sweet spirit of nitre, twenty drops of tincture of digitalis, and an ounce and a half of camphor mixture. This draught, given once or twice a day, with one of the above pills at night, will often succeed in restoring a person to health whose constitution may be considered so broken ana faulty, that it may be deemed impossible for him ever to regain a sound state of body.

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