TINCTURES. 



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Linseed Meal Poultice. — Take of boiling water 

 one quart, and stir insufficient linseed meal with a wooden 

 stick or spoon, and beat it well so as to have no lumps. 

 To be spread on strong cloth or canvas, and applied. 



Yeast and Charcoal Poultice. — Take yeast, one 

 pint ; powdered charcoal sufficient to give consistence to 

 rhe whole when well stirred in. This is a valuable poultice, 

 and is not sufficiently known where it ought to be. Used 

 in sores discharging a stinking matter from them, which 

 it soon arrests. 



Tinctures. 



Tincture of Arnica. — Take arnica flowers, four 

 ounces; alcohol, one quart; macerate, or steep for one 

 week, and strain. 



Tincture of Aconite Root. — Take of the dried and 



bruised root, four ounces ; alcohol, half a pint ; macerate 

 for two weeks, and strain. A medicine no farmer can 

 very well do without. Those who do without it, do not 

 know its actual value. Twenty drops of the tincture of 

 aconite root, under certain circumstances, is as valuable 

 as the animal which may stand in need of its great cura- 

 tive virtues. Measured by its power in curing disease, 

 its weight in gold is not its value. 



Compound Tincture of Benzoin, — Commonly 

 called Friars' Balsam. Take of gum benzoin, one and 

 a half ounces ; storax, one ounce ; balsam of tolu, half an 

 ounce ; aloes in powder, two drachms ; alcohol, one pint : 

 macerate for one week, and strain or filter. Used for 

 healing sores. 



Tincture of Aloes and Myrrh. — Take aloes in pow- 

 der, one ounce ; safi*ron, half an ounce ; tincture of myrrh, 



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