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Dr. M'Millan's formulas and domestic guide

1882

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Presented as published in 1882. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Moisten the powder with half an ounce of di- lute alcohol, pack it into a conical percolator, and gradually pour on it dilute alcohol until 2 pints of the tincture is obtained. This preparation of capsicum is a very useful stimulant in very low states of the system with gastric insensibility, as in malignant, scarlet and typhus fevers, and the cases of drunkards. Dose, I or 2 drams. COMPOUND TINCTURE OF CARDAMOM. Cardamom in moderately fine powder 360 grains. Caraway in moderately fine powder 1 20 grains. Cinnamon in moderately fine powder 300 grains. Cochineal in moderately fine powder 60 grains. Clarified honey 2 ounces. Dilute alcohol a sufficient quantity✪ Compound Tincture of Cardamom. Mix the powders, and having moistened the whole with one-half ounce of dilute alcohol, pack it in a cylindrical percolator and pour on dilute alcohol until 2 pints and 6 ounces of the tincture is obtained ; lastly mix this with the clarified honey and filter through paper. This is a very agreeable aromatic tincture, occasionaly used as a carmina- tive in the dose of i or 2 drams, but more frequently as an addition to mixtures, infusions, etc. 158 DOMESTIC GUIDE. TINCTURE OF CHIRETTA. Chiretta 2 ounces cut small and bruised. Proof spirits i pint✪ Tincture of Chiretta. * Mix and let stand I day, occasionally agitate, and then filter through paper. This is a tonic tincture and may be given in the dose of i or 2 drams 3 or 4 times a day. TINCTURE OF CATECHU. Catechu in moderately fine powder 3 ounces. Cinnamon in moderately coarse powder 2 ounces. Dilute alcohol a sufficient quantity✪ Tincture of Catechu. Mix the powders and having moistened the mixture with an ounce of dilute alcohol pack it in a conical glass percolator and gradually pour on dilute alcohol until 2 pints of the tincture is ob- tained. This is a grateful astringent tincture, useful in all cases in which catechu is indicated and in which small quantities of spirits is not ob- jectionable. In cases of diarrhea combined with some mucilaginous mixture it may be given in 10 or 30 drop doses. COMPOUND TINCTURE OF CHLORO- FORM. Chloroform 2 ounces. Rectified spirits 8 ounces. Compound tincture of cardamoms 10 ounces✪ Compound Tincture of Chloroform. Mix the whole. This is a convenient form of chloroform for in- ternal use. Dose is from 20 to 60 drops. MEDICAL DIVISION. 1 59 TINCTURE OF CINCHONA OR PERUVI- AN BARK. Yellow cinchona in moderately fine powder 6 ounces. * Dilute alcohol, a sufficient quantity. Moisten the powder with 2 ounces dilute alco- hol, pack it firmly in a glass percolator, and gradu- ally pour dilute alcohol on until 2 pints of the tincture is obtained. This tincture is used chiefly as an adjunct to the infiision or decoction of bark, or the solution of sulphate of quinine, to a dose of which it may be added in the quantity of from i to 2 fluid drams. It is tonic in its character, and may be used with that view. TINCTURE OF CINNAMON. Cinnamon in fine powder 3 ounces. Alcohol, a sufficient quantity. Water, a sufficient quantity✪ Tincture of Cinnamon. Mix the alcohol and water in the proportion of 2 measures of the former to i of the latter, then moisten the powder with i ounce of the mixture, pack it moderately in a conical percolator, and gradually pour the mixture on it until 2 pints of the tincture is obtained. This tincture has the aromatic and astringent properties of cinnamon, and may be used as an adjuvant to infusions and decoctions. Dose is i to 3 drams.