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Tincture of Ginger

Moisten 8 troy ounces ginger, in fine powder, with 2 the United States Pharmacopeia in 1850, for fluid ounces alcohol; pack it firmly in a cylinthe first time as a distinct class of preparadrical percolator, and displace , with alcohol, 2 tions. Their distinctive character is the concenpints of tincture. (U. S. Ph.) tration of the active ingredients of a substance

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