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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 displace, with diluted alcohol, 2 pints of tincture. (U. S. Ph.) cian should be sent for at once, and a double 4541. Tincture of Castor. Macerate dose be taken after each movement, until he 2 troy ounces bruised castor for 7 days in 2 arrives. Immediately after taking the first pints alcohol; express, and filter through dose, the person should go to bed, and remain paper. there for twelve hours after the diarrhea has entirely ceased.

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