Our home physician: a new and popular guide to the art of preserving health and treating disease; with plain advice for all the medical and surgical emergencies of the family . ne, from its excessively bitter taste, is usually given inthe form of pill, made up with a little crumb of bread or is also frequently given in a liquid form; but as it is not verysoluble in water, a little spirit, or a few drops of the elixir of vitriol(aromatic sulphuric acid) are generally added to increase its solu-bility. The cold infusion of hark is a useful tonic in indigestion, and isin many cases mo
Our home physician: a new and popular guide to the art of preserving health and treating disease; with plain advice for all the medical and surgical emergencies of the family . ne, from its excessively bitter taste, is usually given inthe form of pill, made up with a little crumb of bread or is also frequently given in a liquid form; but as it is not verysoluble in water, a little spirit, or a few drops of the elixir of vitriol(aromatic sulphuric acid) are generally added to increase its solu-bility. The cold infusion of hark is a useful tonic in indigestion, and isin many cases more grateful to the stomach than quinine; it is pre-pared in the following manner. Take of Peruvian bark, bruised,an ounce ; boiling water, a pint; macerate for six hours in a vessellightly covered, and strain. A wine-glassful to be taken as a dosethree or four times a day. The tincture of hark is sometimes taken as a stomachic in thedose of two or three teaspoonfuls. Many people residing in districtswhere they are constantly exposed to the influence of malaria fromdecaying vegetable matter, take this tincture habitually with theintention of keeping off fever.
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