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Show 350 SOCOTRINE SOCOTRINE ALOES. Pitts or Ators AND Myren. (Pilule Aloes et Myrrhe. E.) Take of socotrine aloes, four parts; myrrh, two parts ; saffron, one part : Beat them into a mass with simple syrup. Lond. Take of socotrine aloes; two ounces; myrrh, saffron, of each one ounce ; ——— syrupof saffron, as much asis sufficient : Powder the alues and myrrh separately ; and, afterwards, beat all the ingredients together into a mass. These pills have long continued in practice, without any other alteration than in the syrup with which the mass is madeup, and in the proportion of saffron. The virtues of this medicine may be easily understood fromits ingredients. Given to the quantity of half a drachm, or two scruples, they prove considerablycathartic, but they answer much better purposes in smaller doses as laxatives. Ernerean Trxcrure or Ators. (Tinctura Aloes Aitherea. E.) ‘Take of socotrine aloes, myrrh, of cach, in powder, one ounce and a half ; English saffron, sliced, one ounce; ———— sulphuric ether, with alcohol, one pound: Digest the myrrh with the sulphuric ether with alcohol for four days, in a close vessel ; then add the saffron andaloes. Digest again for four days, and, when the feces have subsided, pour Wineor Axogs, ALOES (Vinum Aloes. L.) Take of socotrine aloes, eight ounces ; canella alba, two ounces ; Spanish white wine, six pints; proof spirit, two pints : Powder the aloes and canella separately ; mix them, and pour on the wine and spirit: digest for fourteen days, now and then shaking them; and strain. It is proper to mix white sand cleansed from impurities, with the powder, in order to prevent the moistened aloes fromsticking together. This medicine has long been in great esteem, not only as a cathartic, but likewise as a stimulus. ‘The dose is from two to four drachms. lt appears from long experience to be a medicine of excellent service. The dose, as a purgative, is from one to two ounces. It may he introduced into the habit, so as to be productive of excellent effects, as an alterant, by giving it in small doses at proper intervals : thus managed, it does not fora considerable time operate remarkably by stool; but at length proves purgative, and occasions a lax habit of much Jonger continuance than that produced by the other common cathartics. PRESCRIPTIONS. R. 1. Take ofsocotrine aloes, in powder, soap, - - - - - = = drachm 4 drachm 1s essential aromatic oil of cloves drops form a mass: off the tincture. This tincture agrees generallyin its effects with the other tinc- Make into thirty pills, of which take four every night. penetures of aloes, the only difference arising from the more ‘0 open the bodyin costive habits. trating and stimulating nature of the menstruum itself. The dose is from one to two drachms in cold water to be taken going to bed. Given in gouty habits. Wine oFSocotrinet ALogs, COMMONLY CALLED SACRED TincrurE. (Vinum Aloes Socotrine, vulgo Tinctura Sacra. Ii.) R. 2. ———. ginger, bruised, each one drachm; ——— Spanish white wine, two pounds : Digest for seven days, stirring nowand then, and afterwards strain. Take of thealoetic powder with iron : Given drachm 1 ———— syrup of ginger, as muchasis sufficient : Make sixteen pills, of which take four every night. A good tonic aperient, only gently moving the body and at the same line bracing, R.3. Take of socotrine aloes, in powder, one ounce: lesser carcamomsceds, bruised, 3 simple syrup, as rouch as is sufficient to ‘Lakeofthe powder of aloes with guaiacum, scruples 2 is antimonial powder - - - - scruple 1 Was i, simple syrup, as much as is suflicient: weke into sixteen pills, of which two are to be taken every Right going ¢ ght going to bed. 2 eee Excellent where perspiration is wanted. |