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Wood's Tincture of Kino

Kino in fine powder, 14 ounces; alcohol (.835), 8 ounces of tincture. Lastly mix this with fluid ounces; water, 4 fluid ounces; glycerine, 2 troy ounces clarified honey, and filter 4 fluid ounces. Mix the alcohol, water, and glycerine together, and, having mixed the kino with an equal bulk of clean sand, introduce in a percolator and pour on the menstruum. This menstruum seems to thoroughly exhaust the drug of its astringent principle, and also makes a nice-looking preparation that will not deteriorate by exposure.

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