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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1786 Excerpt: ... white wine, fifteen ounces; After three days maceration, let the tincture be filtrated for use. Both these wines are very mild and safe emetics and equally feryiceable, in dysenteries also, with the ipecacuanha in substance; this Toot yielding nearly all its virtues both to the Spanish white wine, and Canary heic ordered, as it does a good share ot them even to aqueous liquors. The common d tfe is an ounce, more or less, according to the age and strength of the patient. The college of Edinburgh added formerly a scruple of cochineal, which imparts a sine red colour to the liquor; this article is now omitted, on a complaint, that the red colour of the matters evacuated, sometimes alarmed the patient, as if it proceeded from a discharge of blood: VINUM VIPERINUM. Viper-wine. Loud. Take of, Dry vipers, two ounces; Mountain, three pints. Macerate with a gentle heat for a week, and then strain off the wine. It has been disputed, whether live pr dry vipers are preferable for making this medicine: such as arc mo'derately and newly dried, are perhaps the most eligible, since by exsiccation they seem to lose only their phlegmatic or.aqueous parts. Whether they communicate to the wine, cither when used freih or dry, so much virtue as they are supposed to do, is greatly to be doubted. Some competitions under this name have been highly celebrated, as restoratives,.in debilities and decays of constitution j but what virtues pf this kind they possessed, were supplied chiefly from other ingredients. VINUM MILLEPEDARUM. Wine of millepedes, Edinb. Take of Live millepedes, bruised, one ounce; Rhenish wine, eight ounces. Infuse them together for seven days, and afterwards press the liquor through a strainer. This wine has been commended as an admirable cleanser of all the vis...