Specification of Alexander Melville Clark : medicinal compounds.

  • Clark, Alexander Melville.
Date:
1872
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    A.D. 1871.—N° 1846. Provisional Specification Clarlc’s Improved Medicinal Compounds. eundurango bark boiled in three ounces of water makes a compound of proper strength for medicinal purposes and for the cure of cancer and other diseases. A proper dose of the compound is one common teacupfull taken in the morning, and another teacupfull taken at night. If the patient is troubled with ulcers they should be kept very clean 5 by the use of aromatic wine or simple ointment according to the degree of inflammation. The solid extracts of the eundurango will be found highly useful and convenient for producing medical compounds or mixing with other medicines. In order to produce the solid extract of eundurango I form 10 the compound before described by steeping or boiling the plant in water or alcohol until the extract is complete. I then evaporate the liquid contained in the compound until the solid extract remains, which may then be employed for medicinal purposes in the form of solutions or tinctures, and may if desired be mixed with other ingredients or 15 medicines. Tor pills I grind the plant eundurango very finely, and mix it with the paste or other ingredients of which the pills are to be compounded, or I add the within described compounds of the eundurango to the pill mass. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. 1872.