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Tincture of wall

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Source: The medical directory : or, family physician ... Which contains an appendix and dispensatory . by Bullman, E; University of Glasgow. Library (1810), narrative-offset-299032.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • wall: one tea spoonful once a day, and wash down with gooseberry leaf tea or cold water. If the patient is weak, take linitive electuaty, two ounces : peruvian bark in powder, one ounce : sa- vin in powder, twenty grains: mix into an electu- ary with sirup of mugwort : dose, one tea spoonful twice a day

Method as extracted

  1. Macerate according to the source passage: Take socotrine aloes,, one ounce: myrrh and saffron, of each half an ounce : sirup of saffron, enough to make a mass : rub the aloes and myrrh separately to powder, then beat them altogether and make into pills of a common size : dose, three or four once a day, and wash down with half a pint of Chalybeate waters or a decoction of wall flowers, birthwort, horseradish, or pennyroyal, an ounce may be boiled in a pint of water : dose, a tea cupful : or the patient may take from ten to twenty drops of the tincture of muriated iron in a ffiass of the decoction of of f-?mer* herbs : or from twenty io fifty drops of compound tincture of savin may be taken in any liquid once or twice a day : or take tincture of helebore, one tea spoonful once or twice a day, in a cup of pennyroyal tea : or take steel prepared and pow- dered, an ounce : ginger in powder, half an ounce: mix in three ounces of honey, treacle, or linitive electuary: take one tea spoonful once a day, and wash down with gooseberry leaf tea or cold water. If the patient is weak, take linitive electuaty, two ounces : peruvian bark in powder, one ounce : sa- vin in powder, twenty grains: mix into an electu- ary with sirup of mugwort : dose, one tea spoonful twice a day.

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  • The historical use wording does not establish modern clinical effectiveness.
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Primary and supporting references

  1. The medical directory : or, family physician ... Which contains an appendix and dispensatory . — The medical directory : or, family physician ... Which contains an appendix and dispensatory .Primary source for the extracted ingredients and method at narrative-offset-299032.
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