Tincture of steel root

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Source: The medical guide, for the use of the clergy, heads of families, and practitioners in medicine and surgery : comprising a practical dispensatory and treatise on the symptoms, causes, prevention, and cure of the diseases incident to the human frame ; with the latest discoveries in medicine by Reece, Richard, 1775-1831. nr 93032726 (1812), narrative-offset-812191.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• steel root: of extract of madder, two drachms; muriated tincture of steel, forty drops ; bitter tincture, two drachms ; mint-water, eight ounces. — Mix

Method as extracted

1. Macerate according to the source passage: From the bulk of the dose necessary to be taken, I have never met with a patient who could persevere properly in its use. The extract, which contains a full dos.e of the virtues of the root in small bulk, is exempt from this objection ; it may be taken combined with steel, as the following mixture : — Take of extract of madder, two drachms; muriated tincture of steel, forty drops ; bitter tincture, two drachms ; mint-water, eight ounces. — Mix.

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