Tincture of Myrrh and Aloes

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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 by Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1820), paragraph-5003.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• of gum myrrh, an ounce and a half ; hepatic aloes, one ounce

Method as extracted

1. Take of gum myrrh, an ounce and a half ; hepatic aloes, one ounce.
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