Important: Safety Warning
This page recommends preparations containing opium, laudanum, morphine, or similar narcotics — in some cases for children. These substances are dangerously addictive, easily fatal in overdose, and strictly controlled by law today.
In addition, this page prescribes plants as medicine according to pre-modern medical theory. Several of the plants named are toxic, correct identification is difficult, and the doses given have no scientific basis. Do not ingest or apply any preparation described here.
In addition, this page presents medical treatment from an era before modern medicine. The remedies described are ineffective against the conditions named, and some of the ingredients or doses are harmful. Do not use them to treat any illness; consult a qualified medical professional.
This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon.
Medicinal Tinctures
Naples Water
Crystallized car- Medicinaluti Tinctures. These are solutions of the active bonate of soda, 15 grains; fluid magnesia, 1 ounce; simple…
Harrogate Water
Chloride of is resorted to in the preparation of tinctures, sodium, 100 grains; muriate of lime, 10 grains; muriate of magnesia, 6 grains…
Simple Chalybeate Water
Water, freed from air by boiling, 1 pint; sulphate of iron, 1/2 grain.
Aerated Chalybeate Water
Sulphate of iron, 1 grain; carbonate of soda, rate 4 troy ounces assafetida in 2 pints alcohol for 2 weeks, and filter through paper. (U…
Tincture of Aconite Leaf
Take 4 troy ounces recently dried aconite leaf in fine powder; moisten with 2 fluid ounces diluted alcohol; pack it firmly in a conical 4…
Brighton Chalybeate
Sulphate pack it firmly in a cylindrical precolator, and of iron, muriate of soda, muriate of lime, of gradually pour alcohol upon it until…
Tincture of Arnica
Take 6 troy ounces of arnica flowers; mix 1½ pints
Bussang Water
Dissolve from to grain of sulphate of iron, 2 or 3 grains alcohol and pint water; moisten the arnica carbonate of soda, 1 grain sulphate of…
Mont d'Or Water
Bicarbonate tincture measure 2 pints. (U. S. Ph.) of soda, 70 grains; sulphate of iron, & grain; 4484. Tincture of Belladonna. Moistmuriate…
Passy Water
Sulphate of iron, 2 grains; muriate of soda, 3 grains; carbonate of soda, 4 grains; muriate of magnesia, 2 grains; aerated water, 1 pint…
Tincture of Hemp
Dissolve 360 grains purified extract of hemp in 1 pint
Pyrmont Water (Sulphate of alcohol and filter)
Sulphate of alcohol, and filter through paper. (U. S. magnesia, 20 grains; muriate of magnesia, 4 Ph.) grains; muriate of soda, 2 grains…
Tincture of Cinchona
Moisten 6 troy ounces yellow cinchona, in moderately fine powder, with 2 fluid ounces diluted alcohol; pack it firmly in a glass percolator…
Mialhe's Ioduretted Gaseous chona
Take 4 troy ounces red cinchona, 3 Water. Iodide of potassium, 15 grains; troy ounces bitter orange peel, 6 drachms bicarbonate of soda, 75…
Tincture of Hemlock
Moisten 4 troy ounces recently dried hemlock, in fine monium seed and diluted alcohol. (Am. Dis.)
Tincture of Monesia
Take 1 part extract of monesia, 6 parts alcohol, and 14 parts water. Mix and filter. (Am. Dis.)
Tincture of St
John's Wort. powder, with 2 fluid ounces diluted alcohol; Macerate for 14 days 5 ounces blossoms of St. pack it firmly in a conical…
Tincture of Digitalis
Moisten Take 4 drachms each powdered opium, gum 4 troy ounces recently dried digitalis (fox kino, and cochineal; 3 drachms cach camphor…
Tincture of Iodine
Dissolve 1 There has been some difficulty in preparing ounce iodine in 1 pint alcohol. (U. S. Ph.) this liniment as directed in the…
Tincture of Turkey-Corn
Take 3 ounces powdered Turkey-corn root (corydalis) and make 1 pint tincture by maceration or displacement with diluted alcohol. (Am. Dis.)…
Universal Tincture
Bruise the following ingredients and digest for several days in 18 ounces brandy: 10 drachms aloes; 8 drachms each white agaric, rhubarb…
Tincture of Chloride of Iron
Introduce 3 troy ounces of iron wire, cut into pieces, into a flask of the capacity of 2 pints; pour upon it 11 troy ounces muriatic acid…
Tincture of Guaiac
Reduce 6 troy ounces guaiac to a moderately coarse 4495. Compound Tincture of Black powder, mix it with an equal bulk of dry sand, Pepper…
Tincture of Black Hellebore
4496. Tincture of American Helle- Moisten 4 troy ounces black hellebore in bore. Moisten 16 troy ounces American moderately fine powder…
Compound Tincture of Dew- phyllin)
Make 1 pint of tincture from 3 berry. Take 4 ounces Dewberry (rubus ounces mandrake-root in powder, with alcohol, trivialis) root, 1/2…
Tincture of Skunk-Cabbage
(Arnica Flowers). Macerate 2 ounces Take 3 ounces skunk-cabbage root in powder, arnica flowers in 1 pint dilute alcohol; or and 1 pint…
Tincture of Stramonium (Make Tincture of Hops Moisten)
Make 4510. Tincture of Hops. Moisten 5 1 pint of tincture from 2 ounces bruised stra-troy ounces hops, in moderately coarse powder, with 2…
Tincture of Henbane
Moisten luted alcohol, 2 pints of tincture. (U. S. Ph.) 4523. Tincture of Rhubarb and 4 troy ounces henbane leaf, in fine powder, Senna…
Tincture of Kino
Reduce 6 of their seeds. Macerate for 14 days in 3 drachms kino to fine powder. Mix the pow- pints diluted alcohol, and filter through…
Tincture of Lobelia
Moisten 4 troy ounces lobelia, in fine powder, with 2 fluid ounces diluted alcohol; pack it firmly 4525. Tincture of Serpentaria. Moistin a…
Tincture of Chiretta
Macerate 21 ounces (avoirdupois) chiretta, cut small and bruised, in 15 Imperial fluid ounces rectified spirit, for 48 hours. Then transfer…
Tincture of Valerian
This is obtained in the same manner as the tincture of serpentaria. (See last formula.) (U. S. Ph.)
Camphorated Tincture of Opium
(Paregoric Elixir). This is a camphorated tincture of opium. Macerate 1 drachm each drachm oil of anise, 2 ounces clarified honey, powdered…
Tincture of Blue-Flag
Macerate 3 ounces powdered blue-flag in 1 pint alcohol; or, make 1 pint by percolation. (Am. Dis.) powdered opium in a mortar with some of…
Tincture of Lupulin
Pack 4 the honey and benzoic acid in the mixture. troy ounces lupulin in a narrow cylindrical By passing this once more through the…
Tincture of Nux Vomica
Di- 4529. Tincture of Opium. (Laudagest with a gentle heat, 8 troy ounces finely num). Macerate 21 ounces opium, in modewith a gentle heat…
Tincture of Tobacco
Take a 4530. Ammoniated Tincture of convenient quantity of the expressed juice of Opium. Digest 6 drachms benzoic acid, fresh-gathered…
Tincture of Cantharides
Moist ten to thirty drops; infants, one to ten drops, en 1 troy ounce cantharides, in fine powder, according to age. In time of epidemic…
Tincture of Cardamom
Moisten 4 troy ounces cardamom, in fine powder, with 2 fluid ounces diluted alcohol; pack it firmly in a cylindrical percolator, and…
Compound Tincture of Pellitory
1½ ounces; diluted alcohol, 1½ pints. Digest Take of bruised pellitory, 4 drachms; cam- for 10 days in a closed vessel, and then filter…
Decoction of Balm of Gilead
For the decoction, simmer 1 ounce of the buds in a quart of soft water, down to half a pint. Take a wine-glassful or more, when the cough…
Tincture of Balm of Gilead
Infuse 2 ounces of the buds in a quart of with a piece of perforated paper, and pour on good rum, and 4 ounces of sugar. Digest for alcohol…
Sweet Tincture of Rhubarb
Take of rhubarb, bruised, and liquorice root, bruised, of each 2 ounces; aniseed, bruised, and sugar, of each 1 ounce; diluted alcohol, 2…
Tincture of Aloes
Take 1 troy Take of alkaline fluid extract of rhubarb, 3 ounce socotrine aloes in fine powder, and 3 fluid ounces. (See No. 4591.) Neutral…
Tincture of Aloes and Myrrh
then sufficient water to make the whole weigh Take 3 troy ounces each socotrine aloes and 14 troy ounces. The above is an improvemyrrh…