| DOMESTIC PHARMACOPGEIA, 
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" The list of medicinal preparations which follow, comprises, with a 
single exception, all my favorite compound remedies; together with 
many gathered in the course of a long life, or selected from the suc- 
ul practice of other physicians. None of these are infallible in 
all cases, although many of them, properly employed, will, I venture 
to say, fulfil all reasonable expectations that can be entertained from 
medicine. But good medicine will frequently disappointexpectation ;_ 
1en this: ns, however, before we discard or blame the means, 
let us satisfy ourselves that they have not been misapplied ; for more 
depends upon a correct application, than upon the specific virtues of 
_ any remedy; and sagacity and skill to direct, constitute the great 
= y of the recipes here. given may ‘be-considered of little conse- 
quence, or even frivolous: Some of them, perhaps, are sa, individu- 
ally. But to the discerning practioner, all of them will afford vanu- 
ABLE HINTS, which he may improve with advantage, With this view, 
alone, they are here published, © . 
Favorite Preparations, 
‘The Tonic Tincture—32 gallons.—In thirty-two gallons of 
inner bark of white oak, pul- 
eks, shaking it up oceasion- 
when it will be sufficiently’ 
ay remain in the cask. 
half an ounce of “ Turljng- 
ther till they are incorporated, 
common wine glassful, 
pound of the par- 
ine, dried ; and one fourth ofa pound of 
water to three 
