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Source: Domestic medicine. Or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines : containing observations on the comparative advantages of vaccine inoculation, with instructions for performing the operation an essay, enabling puptured [sic] persons to manage themselves, with engravings of bandages, which every person may prepare for himself and a family herbal. To which are added, such useful discoveries ... as have transpired since the demise of the author by Buchan, William, 1729-1805. n 82060399 (1813), paragraph-4250.
Ingredients or materials as extracted
- Tincture of Wormwood. — Take of the flowering tops of wormwood properly dried, four ounces ; rectified spirit of wine two pounds : mace- rate for two days; then press out the spirit, and pour it upon two ounces of wormwood
- Vinegar of Litharge.— Take of litharge, half a pound ; strong vinegar two pints
- o« litharge, one pound; vinegar made of French wine, two pints
Method as extracted
- Macerate again for four days ; then press the tincture through a cloth, and afterwards strain it through paper.
- Infuse them together in a moderate heat for three days, fre- quently shaking the vessel ; then filter the liquor for use.— This medi cine is little used, from a general notion of its being dangerous.
- Take o« litharge, one pound; vinegar made of French wine, two pints.
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Primary and supporting references
- Domestic medicine. Or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines : containing observations on the comparative advantages of vaccine inoculation, with instructions for performing the operation an essay, enabling puptured [sic] persons to manage themselves, with engravings of bandages, which every person may prepare for himself and a family herbal. To which are added, such useful discoveries ... as have transpired since the demise of the author — Domestic medicine. Or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines : containing observations on the comparative advantages of vaccine inoculation, with instructions for performing the operation an essay, enabling pupPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at paragraph-4250.