THORN-APPLE. 353 



VINOUS TINCTURE OF THORN-APPLE *. 



Take of Thorn -Apple seeds, bruised two ounces. 



Malaga wine eight ounces. 



Alcohol one ounce. 



Macerate in a gentle heat for a few days, express, and filter. 



This preparation is a valuable hypnotic, preferable to the 

 extract, and according to Hufeland, superior even to opium. — 

 The Dose is from six to twenty drops in any convenient vehicle. 



ALCOHOLIC TINCTURE OF THORN-APPLE "j\ 



Take of Thorn-Apple seeds two ounces. 



Brandy one pint. 



Digest for six days and filter. 



Dose, from fifteen to forty drops. 



By some an oxymel of the seeds has been recommended for 

 asthma, &c, as the vinegar modifies the narcotic quality, and 

 the honey increases its expectorant properties. 



* Pharm. Batava, ed. Niemann. 



f Pharm. of the United States.— Boston, 1820. 



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