Tincture of myrrh

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Source: Domestic medicine : or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners. To which are added, observations on the diet of the common people; recommending a method of living less expensive, and more conducive to health, than the present by Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1800), narrative-offset-566367.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• myrrh: If the difeafe is mild, the throat may be gargled with an infufion of fage and rofe leaves, to a gill of of which may be added a fpoonful or two of honey ; and as much vinegar as will make it agreeably acid ; but w'hen the fymp'tomsare urgent, the floughs large and thick, and the breath very oflenfive, the following gargle may be ufed : To fix or feven ounces of the pefloral decodtion, when boiling, add half an ounce

Method as extracted

1. Macerate according to the source passage: If the difeafe is mild, the throat may be gargled with an infufion of fage and rofe leaves, to a gill of of which may be added a fpoonful or two of honey ; and as much vinegar as will make it agreeably acid ; but w'hen the fymp'tomsare urgent, the floughs large and thick, and the breath very oflenfive, the following gargle may be ufed : To fix or feven ounces of the pefloral decodtion, when boiling, add half an ounce of contrayerva- root ; let it boil for fome time, and afterwards ftrain the liquor ; to which add two ounces of white- wine vinegar, an ounce of fine honey, and an ounce of the tincture of myrrh.

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