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JUGLANS.—WALNUT TREE.
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Leaves of Soap-wort, sixteen pounds.
Musk Roses, twelve ounces.
Common Roses, six ounces.
Senna, twenty-six ounces.
Leave to infuse for twenty-four hours ;then dissolve in the infusion
Sugar, thirty-seven pounds.
Boil, clarify with white of egg, and re-duce the liquor to the consistence of syrup.Mittte directed the patient to take eightpills in the morning, two hours before break-fast ; and four, two hours before supper ;he also directed him to take four spoonfulsof syrup in a glass of water in the morning,fasting, and two spoonfuls, two hours be-fore supper.
ANTHELMINTIC DROPS.
Mixtura Kucum Juglandium. (Hamb. ;Augustin)
R. Extract of Walnuts, two drams.
Cinnamon Mater, one ounce.
Mix. — Dose, sixty drops to a child of twoyears, and one hundred to an adult.
tincture op walnut rinds.
Essentia Corticis Viridis Ntccum Juglandis.(Dan.)
R. Walnut Rinds, fresh and sliced,
six ounces.French Brandy, two pounds.
Digest in a moderate heat for four days,and filter.
It is bitter, astringent, tonic, and stimu-lant.
decoction of walnut rinds.
Decoctum Drupa Juglandis regia seu Cor-ticis viridis Nitcum juglandium. (Genev. ;Augustin; Niemann)
R. Green Walnut Rinds, one ounce.
Boiling Water, ten ounces.
Boil for a quarter of an hour, and strain.(Genf.v. ; Augustin ; Niemann)
R. Walnuts, gathered a short time be-fore their maturity, and dried,
three ounces.Spring Water, four ounces.
Boil down to one half, and add to thestrained liquor
Honey, two ounces.
Dissolve. (Genev.)
This drink is extolled in syphilitic dis-orders which do not yield to mercury, andin those which attack very irritable sub-jects. Frank recommends it in lotions toherpetic ulcers.
compound infusion of walnut rinds.
Infusum Juglandis compositum. (Van
Mons)
R. Dried Walnut Rinds, \ of each,Walnut Leaves, J four handfuls.
Water, a sufficient quantity
to obtain eight pounds of strained infusion.Having let it stand for an hour, add
Muriate of Lime, one ounce and a half.Mix. — It is astringent, and is employedexternally in the form of baths, at the tem-perature of from 36 to 38 degrees R., inscrofula, tubercles of the lungs, and gene-rally in all diseases of the lymphatic system.
pollini's decoction.
Decoctum Drupœ Juglandis regia*. (Au-gustin ; Fee; Niemann; Ratier ;Saunders; Swediaur; Ph. Syph.)
R. Walnut Rinds, ten ounces.
Sarsaparilla, ] ,
China Root, ! \™ ]f '
Sulpbuxet of Antimony, [
Ti • Oi an ounce.
Pumice Stone, J
Water, sixty-four ounces.
Boil down to one half in a lightly-covered
vessel. (Augustin; Fee; Niemann)
R. Sarsaparilla, 1 ,. , .
rn ■ a » r ot each, two ounces.China Root, J
Dried Walnut Hinds, one pound.
Sulphuret of Antimony, "1 of each,
Pumice Stone, J two ounces.
Water, twenty pounds.
Boil down to one half. (Niemann)
R. Sarsaparilla, three ounces.
China Root, one ounce and a half.
Sulphuret of Antimony, two ounces.
fifty,ten pounds.
eighteen ounces.
Entire Walnuts,
Water,Boil. (Saunders)R. Walnut Rinds,
Sarsaparilla, fûjj ______
China Root,
Suiplmret of Antimony,a bag,
Pumice Stone, in a bag,
Water, eight pounds.
Macerate for twelve hours ; then havingboiled them in a covered vessel, take outthe bags, and continue the boiling till onlyfour pounds of liquid remain ; then strainwithout filtering. (Ph. Syfh.)
Ph. Syph. gives also under the name ofDecoctum Syphiliticum rolorans, anotherformula, —four ounces of sulphuret of an-timonv, two each, of pumice stone, of sar-saparilla, and of china root, forty dried un-ripe walnuts, and twenty pounds of water,boiled till reduced to ten.