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Show 556 BLACK HELLEBORE, OR CHRISTMAS ROSE. PREPARATION. Tincture oF Brack Hetresore. (Tinctura Hellebori Nigri. L. D. E.) Take of black hellebore, in coarse powder, four ounces; cochineal, powdered, two scruples (half a drachm, E.); proof spirit of wine, two pints (two pounds and a half, E.): Digest with a gentle heat for seven days, and strain. This is perhaps the best preparation of hellebore, when designed for an alterative, the menstruum here employed extracting the whole of its virtues. It has been found particularly services able in uterine obstructions. In sanguine constitutions, where chalybeates are hurtful, it has been said that it seldom fails of exciting the menstrual evacuations, and removing the badeffects of their suppression, A tea-spoonful of the tincture may be taken twice a day in warm water, or any other convenient vehicle. PRESCRIPTION. FQRTID HELLEBORE. HELLEBORUS FETIDUS. Class XII. Polyandria. Essent, Gen, Cuar. Spec, Cuan, Order V1. ‘Polygynia. Same as the last. Stem many-flowered, leafy: Leaves pedate. EE DESCRIPTION, mer: those above are narrow, lanceolate, of a dark green. ie flowers are inconspicuous, green, terminal, upon long pedunc les. HISTORY. This plant is found wild in England, and flowers in February. 5 Tas also rises to two feet in height. The leaves below are humerous, andstand uponlong footstalks, resembling the ci a and washit off with soap and water the following mornin g. The itch is sure to disappear. Repeat the same proces s in a week, when an effectual cure will be produced. It may be as well at the same time to take night and morning a tea-spo onful of an electuary of flowers of sulphur mixed with honeyor treacle. oe eS ——a R.. Take of the washed flowers of sulphur ounces 2, black hellebore, in powder + drachms 2, essence of bergamot += - = drachm 1, hog’slard = ~ = =» = ~ ounces 2: Make into an ointment; smear only the joints for three nights, |