Tincture of opium

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Source: The way to preserve good health, invigorate a delicate constitution, and attain an advanced age [electronic resource] : together with a treatise on domestic medicine, pointing out, in plain language, and as free from professional terms as possible, the nature, symptoms, causes, probable terminations, and treatment of all diseases incident to men, women, and children, in both cold and warm climates; as also appropriate prescriptions in English, and the doses of medicine which are suitable to diff by Thomas, Robert, 1753-1835; University of Glasgow. Library; University of Glasgow. Library (1822), narrative-offset-714784.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• opium: If we give opium in a solid form, we can begin with two grains of this, eight of camphor and six of musk, formed into a bolus or pills of a proper size, with a little of confection of orange or the like, which dose may be repeated every four or six hours, washing it down with any kind of liquid. If the patient gives a preference to medicine in a fluid form, we may begin with a draught, consisting of ten drachms of ca

Method as extracted

1. Macerate according to the source passage: If we give opium in a solid form, we can begin with two grains of this, eight of camphor and six of musk, formed into a bolus or pills of a proper size, with a little of confection of orange or the like, which dose may be repeated every four or six hours, washing it down with any kind of liquid. If the patient gives a preference to medicine in a fluid form, we may begin with a draught, consisting of ten drachms of camphor mixture, half a drachm of aether,, and fifty drops of the tincture of opium, and this is to be taken every two or three hours.

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