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DECOCTIOM OF DANDELION*. 



Take of the fresh herb and roots of Dandelion, four ounces ; 

 Water two pints. 



Boil to one pint, and strain the expressed fluid. 



Dose from two to three ounces, twice a day. The addition 

 of cream of tartar renders it more efficacious -j-. 



If an aromatic be required, an ounce of angelica root and the 

 same quantity of liquorice root may be added. Some of the 

 continental physicians order a decoction to be made with equal 

 parts of Dandelion root and root of Couch-grass {Triticuvi re- 

 pens)y to which is added a little syrup or oxymel. 



* Pharm. Dubl. 



-}• Bergius recommends the recent leaves of Dandelion and wood-sorrel, 

 boile.d in whey or in water, to which the yolk of an egg is added, and a 

 little cream of tartar. He ordered his patients to continue this ^egimeJ^ 

 for several weeks, and he found it useful in indurations of the liver, biliar/ 

 Concretions, and dropsy of the belly. — -Op. cit. 



