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in the course of this work, for a tincture will 

 contain more or less of the virtue of everj one of 

 these, and be often convenient^ where the powder 

 or decoction could not be given. It is needless to 

 enumerate these^ and one rule of making, serves for 

 them all : two ounces of the ingredient is to bo 

 cut to thin slices^ or bruised in a mortar, and 

 put into a quart of spirit ; it is to stand a fort- 

 night in a place a little warm, and be often shook ; 

 at the end of this time, it is to be taken out, strain- 

 ed off, and made to pass through a funnel, lined 

 with whitish brown paper, and put tip with the 

 name of the ingredient. 



To these tinctures of the English roots, barks, 

 and seeds, it would be well to add a few made of 

 foreign ingredients. As, 



!• The bitter tincture for the stomach, 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 maj be made 

 in white wine^ allowing two quarts. 



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 ouncei 

 of bark, and a quart of spirit. 



4. Tincture of soot for fiiSj, made with two 

 ounces of wood-soot, one ounce of assafietida, 

 and a quart of spirit. 



5. Tincture of steel, for the stoppage of the 



menses, made of flowers of iron four ounces, and 

 spirit a quart. 



6. Tincture of mjrrh, made of three ounrei 

 of myrrh, and a quart of spirit, good for curing 

 the scurvy in the gums. 



7. Tincture of rhubarb, made of two ounces 



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