182° PREPARATIONS. 
- Ifa liquid medicine be preferred, I ordera dram 
of thefe dried leaves to be infufed for four hours 
in half a pint of boiling water, adding to the ftrained 
liqu ior an ounce ‘of any fpirituous water. One ounce 
of this infufion given twice a day, is a medium dofe 
for an adult patient. If the patient be ftronger than 
ufual, or the fymptoms very urgent, this dofe may 
be given once in eight hours ; and on the contrary 
in many inftances half an ounce at a time will be 
quite fuilicient. About ne! grains of the AD ae 
i: 
The ingenuity of man has ever been fond of eR 
erting itfelf to vary the forms and combinations of 
medicines. Hence we have {pirituous, vinous, and 
acetous tin@ures; extrads hard and foft, fyrups 
with fugar or heney, &c.. but the “more we multi- 
ply the forms of any medicine, the longer we fhall 
be. in afcertaining its real dofe. I have no lafting 
bjection however to any of thefe formule secret 
| Teas appears “i ae 
igitalis is difpofed ee opium may be join : 
ith it advantageoully and when the bowels are 
? may be given at the fame time, 
without 
