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Source: The Family physician : a manual of domestic medicine to which is added, the ladies' physician (1865), narrative-offset-4994.
Ingredients or materials as extracted
- senna: The black draught is prepared as four ounces of Epsom salts and half an ounce of extract of liquorice in fourteen 56 882 MATERIA MEDICA, fluid ounces of infusion of senna with the aid of gentle heat, then add two and a half fluid ounces of tincture of senna and ten fluid drachms of compound tincture of cardamoms, and, finally, a sufficient quantity of infusion of senna to make it up to a pint. The dose of either of t
Method as extracted
- Macerate according to the source passage: The black draught is prepared as four ounces of Epsom salts and half an ounce of extract of liquorice in fourteen 56 882 MATERIA MEDICA, fluid ounces of infusion of senna with the aid of gentle heat, then add two and a half fluid ounces of tincture of senna and ten fluid drachms of compound tincture of cardamoms, and, finally, a sufficient quantity of infusion of senna to make it up to a pint. The dose of either of these preparations is from two to three tahl e-spoonfuls.
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- The Family physician : a manual of domestic medicine to which is added, the ladies' physician — The Family physician : a manual of domestic medicine to which is added, the ladies' physicianPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at narrative-offset-4994.