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Tincture of Wormwood

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Use not statedUse not stated PreparationTincture RouteInternal use Plant recordSaba senegalensis ↗

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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

  1. Macerate again for four days ; then press the tincture through a cloth, and afterwards strain it through paper.
  2. 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.
  3. Take o« litharge, one pound; vinegar made of French wine, two pints.

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Modern safety boundary

Toxic / do not self-use

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  • Unreviewed automated import: this record is public for live editorial inspection and has not passed manual identity, formula or safety review.
  • Historical formula: ingredient identity, strength, contamination risk and terminology may differ from modern practice.
  • Do not use this record as dosage or treatment guidance. Every ingredient, route and contraindication requires qualified editorial verification.
  • The historical use wording does not establish modern clinical effectiveness.
  • Automated review flags: toxic metal or mineral, high risk botanical, serious disease claim.
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Primary and supporting references

  1. 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.
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