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Chap, XXXI.

Of Vinegars.

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which, poured from the fasces after they have subsided, add

the spirit.

Vinegar of squills is a medicine of great antiquity. It isa very powerful stimulart; and hence it is frequently used,with great success, as a diuretic and expectorant. The doseof this medicine is from a drachm to half an ounce; wherecrudities abound in the first passages, it may be given at firstin a larger dose to evacuate them by vomiting. It is mostconveniently exhibited along with cinnamon, or other agree-able aromatic waters, which prevent the nausea it would other-wise, even in small doses, be apt to occasion.

Acftum cotcHici. £ond.Vinegar of Meadow Saffron.Take of

Fresh root of meadow saffron, sliced, one ounce;

Acetic acid, one pint;

Proof-spirit, one fluidounce.Macerate the root with the vinegar, in a corked glass bottle,

for twenty-four hours ; then express the liquor and set it at

rest to settle; lastly, add the spirit to the defalcated liquor.

This is substituted for the oxymel of the former edition ofthe London Pharmacopoeia, and appears to be a more con-venient form. It is said to be powerfully diuretic.

AciduaM aceticum camphor at um. Dub,Camphorated Acetic Acid.Take of

Acetic acid, six ounces by measure;Camphor, half an ounce;Rectified spirit, a sufficient quantity.Reduce the camphor to powder, by means of the spirit; thenadd the acid and dissolve.

ACIDUM ACETOSUM CAMPHORATUM. Ed.

Camphorated Acetous, Acid.Take of

Stronger acetous acid, six ounces;

Camphor, half an ounce ; tTriturate the camphor with a little alcohol; add it to the acid

and dissolve.

The alcohol in this preparation is used merely to facilitatethe reduction of the camphor to powder; for the strong ace-tous, or, as we would rather call it, the acetic acid, is capable

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