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Golden Tincture (Sulphuric half an hour more)
Sulphuric half an hour more, watching and stirring, ether, 1 ounce; laudanum, 1 ounce; chloro- that the mixture may not burn. Then strain form, ounce; alcohol, 1 ounce. Mix. This and add lemon-juice and sugar to taste. Take preparation is extensively used by the German any quantity, cold, through the day, and half physicians. Dose, from 3 to 30 drops, accord- a thimbleful, warm, at night. The above is a ing to circumstances. It makes an excellent most excellent receipt. local application in neuralgia and other pain- 5263. Chapman's Copaiba Mixture. ful affections.
Make a mixture of ounce copaiba, + fluid