Greenhow's Aromatic Tincture of Guaiacum.—Take of guaiacum, cloves and cinnamon, each, in powder, one ounce; best brandy, two pints. Macerate for fourteen days and filter.
Dose.—From a tea-spoonful to a table-spoonful, in sweetened water, every fifteen or twenty minutes.—Am. Dis.
Compound Cajeput Mixture—Hunn's Drops.—Take of oils of cajeput, cloves, peppermint, and anise, each, one fluid ounce; rectified alcohol, four ounces. Dissolve the oils in the alcohol.
The ordinary dose is from ten drops to half a tea-spoonful; to be given in simple syrup, mucilage of slippery-elm, or in hot brandy and water sweetened.—Am. Dis.
Fluid Extract of Rhubarb and Potassa.—Take of the root of the best India rhubarb, in powder, and bicarbonate of potassa, of each, one ounce; cassia or cinnamon, and golden seal, in powder, of each, half an ounce; boiling water, one-half pint. Macerate the roots and seeds for an hour; strain and dissolve the potassa in the strained liquor when nearly cold, and add one gill best brandy; essence of peppermint, one tea-spoonful, and refined sugar, two ounces.
Dose.—From one to two tea-spoonfuls as often as necessary.—Am. Dis.
Tinc. Xanthoxyli, or Tincture of Prickly-ash Berries.—Take of prickly-ash berries eight ounces; diluted alcohol, two pints. Form into a tincture by maceration, or displacement, and make two pints of tincture.
The ordinary dose is twenty or thirty drops. In cholera, from a tea-spoonful to one or two table-spoonfuls, according to circumstances.—Am. Dis.
Tincture of Oil of Monarda—Essence of Monarda, or Horsemint.—Take of oil of horsemint one fluid ounce; alcohol, nine fluid ounces, Imp. Meas. Mix with agitation.
Dose.—From ten to twenty drops on sugar, or in sweetened water.—Am. Dis.