Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

INTRODUCTION. xxv.
in the course of this work, for a tincture will
contain more or less of the virtue of every one of
these, and be often con ve'Knt, where the ponder
or decoction could not be it is
given,
needless to
enumerate these, and one ru'e of making, serves i'or
them ail : two ounces of the is
ingredient
to be
cut to thin slices, or bruised in i mortar, and
put into a quart of spirit ; it is to stand n fortnight
in a place a little warm, and be often shook ;
at the end of this time, it is to be taken out, strained
off,
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ano
made to pass through a funnel, lined
with whitish brown paper, and put up with the
name of thr ingredient.
To these tinctures of the English roots, barks,
and seed*, it would be well to add a few made of
As,
1. The bitter tincture for the stomach,
foreign iugredients.
is made
of two ounces of gentian, an ounce of dried
orange peel, and half an ounce of cardamom
seeds, and a quart of spirit : or it may be made
in white wine, allowing; two quails.
2. Tincture of castor, good in hysteric com-
plaints, and made with two ounces of castor and
a quart of spirit.
3. Tincture of bark, which will cure those who
"will not take the powder, made of four ounces
of bark, and a quart of .
spirit.^,
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4. Tincture of soot for fits, made^with tw