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Macerate fourteen days, shake up daily, express and filter. 
Invaluable in intermittent, remittent, typhus, typhoid, 
and nearly all other fevers. Also in puerperal fever, con- 
vulsions, peritonitis, painful menstruation, leucorrhcea, 
neuralgia, headache, gout, rheumatism, punemonia, &c. 
Dose: from ten to fifteen or twenty drops, in a wineglassful 
or half wineglassful of water, every four hours. 
TINCTURE OF VERATRUM VIRIDE.— 
Green Hellebore Rhizome or Root...... Four ounces, 
Jrecttied SPHIG 35 $6.00 5-4-0 vpn t +eea. One pint, 
Macerate fourteen days, shake up daily, express, and filter, 
Most excellent in excessive arterial excitement, pericar- 
ditis, endocarditis, asthma, rheumatism, chorea, croup, 
scarlet fever, epilepsy, pneumonia, neuralgia, hooping 
cough, or wherever an inflammatory diathesis exists. 
Add toadrachm of tincture an equal quantity of simple syrup. 
Dose: begin with eight drops every three hours, increasing 
the quantity one or two drops, until nausea or vomiting, or a 
reduction of the pulse to sixty-five or seventy the minute 
fullow ; then reduce the quantity to one half in all cases. 
Females, and persons from fourteen to eighteen should com- 
mence with six drops, increasing one drop only, and decreasing 
asabove. Children from two to five years of age should begin 
with two drops only, increasing one drop, and decreasing in 
the same way. Below two years of age one drop every three 
hours will be sufficient 
Its properties are expectorant, diaphoretic, alterative, 
nervine, emetic, and arterial sedative. 
In pneumonia, typhoid fever, and many other diseases, 
it must be continued for from three to five or seven days ; it 
may be continued indefinitely, in moderate doses short of 
nausea, without the least inconvenience. 
It is important to bear in mind that it is dangerous when 
given in too large doses. It is for this reason that we have 
recommended careful supervision during its administration. 
Should an over-dose be given, however, from ten to fourteen 
