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Preparations and Compositions. Part III.

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ViNUM N1COTIAN7E TABACI. Ed.

Tobacco Wine.

Take cf

The dried leaves of tobacco, one ounce;Spanish white wine, one pound.

Macerate for seven clays, and strain the liquor through pa-per.

Wine seems to extract more fully the active principles ofthe tobacco than either water or spirit taken separately.

Vinum opri. Lond.Wine of Opium,Take of

Extract of opium, one ounce;Cinnamon, bruised,Cloves, bruised, of each one drachm;Wine, one pint.Macerate for eight days, and filter.

This is the Tincture Thebaica of the Dispensatory ]745;the Laudanum Liquidum of Hoffman, which has continuedto be popular, notwithstanding its exclusion from the latePharrnacopceias. Mr Ware, in particular, considers it as su-perior to every other solution of opium as an application inchronic inflammation of the eyes : and, with the same inten-tion, it is sometimes used when inspissated by spontaneousevaporation.

Vinum rhei palmati. Ed.

lihubarb Wine.Take of

Rhubarb, sliced, two ounces ;

Canella alba, bruised, one drachm ;

Diluted alcohol, two ounces ;

Spanish white wine, fifteen ounces.Macerate for seven days, and strain through paper.

This is a warm, cordial, laxative medicine. It is usedchiefly in weakness of the stomach and bowels, and somekinds of loosenesses, for evacuating the offending matter, andstrengthening the tone of the viscera.. It may be given indoses of from half a spoonful to three or four spoonfuls ormore, according to the circumstances of the disorder, and.the strength of the patient.