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stitute for it a dilute spirit, though this is by no means free fromobjection.

Medicinally it is an excellent cordial and tonic, in low fevers, and inconvalescence, provided it is not tart or new. Port-wine is mostcommonly used for this purpose. It is excellent, as I have more thanonce seen, and also experienced in my own person, in gangrene, andin scarlatina and confluent smallpox, in the gangrenous stage, whenpushed even to the verge of inebriation. An old man, with a limbshattered by a fall, and completely gangrenous, and covered withyellow vesications, had a glass of port-wine every 10, 15, and 30minutes, and recovered from all but absolute death.

Enters into Prep. Vini Medicati Sequentes.Vinum Absintiiiates. P. Wormwood Wine. Take 5 v j each of thedried leaves of great, and of Pontic, wormwood, and Oiv of whitewine; macerate for 24 hours in a matrass, and filter with expression.It is a good bitter tonic and stimulant.Vinum Ai.oes. L. E. D. Wine of Aloes. Tinchtra sacra. O. Thenew formula is: Take gviij of extract of sp'ked aloes, 51J of Canellabark, Oiv each of proof spirit and distilled water ; triturate the aloesinto powder with clean white sand, rub also the canella into powder;mix, and pour over them the spirit and the water; digest for 14 days,stirring occasionally, and strain. It contains one part of proof spirit,and one part of water.

The old formula contains the same quantities of aloes and canella, andOij of proof spirit, with Ovj of white wine prepared in the same way.

Medicinally it is given as a stomachic, in doses of 5J t0 ^iji an( l as apurgative in doses of §j to Jij. It is improved by the addition ofmyrrh, and the subcarbonates of ammonia and soda, for gouty dys-peptic, and chlorotic cases, and tabes mesenterica.Vinum Antimonii Tartarizati. L. Antimonial Wine. LiquorTartari eme/ici. D. Take 3j of tartarized antimony, Jviij of boil-ing distilled water, and jij of rectified spirit; dissolve the tartarizedantimony in the boiling water, and add the spirit to the filtered liquor.One ounce contains gr. ij of tartar emetic.

Light does not -decompose it as it does a solution of tartar emetic.(Dr. J. Davy.)

It is bad when not perfectly clear and without sediment, which, whenmade with wine, is tartrate of lime and vegetable extractive.

Medicinally it is diaphoretic, in doses of n\x to Tt^xxx, along with salinedraughts and warm drinks; it is a nauseant in doses of 5 j to ^ij ; andit is emetic in doses of gss to Jj. To infants, a tea-spoonful everyten minutes will evacuate the stomach speedily. From peculiarity ofconstitution it often operates violently in very small doses.