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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 paper. dered kino thoroughly with an equal bulk of (U. S. Ph.) diluted alcohol; pack it in a conical percolator, and displace, with diluted alcohol, 2 pints of tincture. (U. S. Ph.) dry sand; introduce the mixture into a coni- 4524. Tincture of Bloodroot. Moisten cal glass percolator, and displace pint of 4 troy ounces bloodroot (sanguinaria), in tincture, using a menstruum composed of 2 moderately fine powder, with 1 fluid ounce parts alcohol and 1 part water. (U. S. Ph.)