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BOTANIC PHYSICIAN. 
This is a valuable preparation of elixir vitriol. It may be given 
ses of ten to thirty drops, or more, three times a day. if 
cture of Black Hellebore.—Take root of black hellebore, four 
ounces ; cochineal in powder, half a drachm ; spirits, two pounds and 
-ahalf. ‘Digest seven days. st : ci: pees 
‘This is an excellent preparation of hellebore when designed for 
an alterative. It has also been found by experience to be particu- 
larly serviceable in uterine obstructions. In sanguine constitutions 
where chalybeates are hurtful, it is said that it seldom fails of exciting 
e menstrual evacuations, and removing the ill consequences of 
their suppression. A tea spoonful of the tincture may be taken twice 
a day in warm water. 
. Essence of Peppermint.—Take oil of peppermint, one ounce ; al- 
 eohol. pared anda half. Digest till the oil is blended with the 
Spearmint—Is made in the same manner with half 
‘Compound Tincture of Lavender.—Take of oil of lavender, six 
ounces ; oil of rosemary, two ounces ; cinnamon, one ounce ; cloves, 
two drachms; nutmeg, half an ounce; red sanders, in shavings, . 
three drachms ; alcohol four pounds. Digest ten days and filter. 
_ This is a grateful cordial in common use, as relieving languor and 
‘faint From ten to an hundred drops may be conveniently taken 
dropped on sugar. 
Mepicatep Winks. 
“Chalybeate. Wine.—Take of purified filings of iron, or rust of 
iron, one ounce ; white wine, sixteen ounces. Digest for a month, 
often shaking the vessel, and then filtrate. : 
The dose is from a drachm to half an ounce, twice or thrice a 
‘day in menstrual obstructions and green sickness. 
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Compound Wine of Gentian.—Take of gentian, half an ounce ; 
Peruvian bark, one ounce ; orange peel two drachms; canella, one 
drachm ; diluted alcohol, four fluid ounces; wine two pints and a 
half. First pour the diluted alcohol on the root and barks, sliced 
and bruised, and after twenty-four hours, add the wine ; then mace- 
- Wine is fully capable of extracting the active powers of the diffe- 
rent ingredients; and it supplies us with a very useful and elegant 
stomachic medicine. Its dose is six drachms. 
Vine of Opium —(Commonly called “Sydenham’s Laudanum.”) 
é ce of opium two ounces ; cinnamon and cloves, each one drachm; 
wine, one pint. - Macerate forten days andstrain. at 4 
Dose, from ten drops to forty, fifty, or more. 
