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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 diluted alcohol. Make a tincture put the arnica-flowers in a percolator, and by maceration, or displace 1 pint from a per- with diluted alcohol displace 1 pint. (Am. colator. (Am. Dis.) Dis.)

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