Ars chirurgica a compendium of the theory and practice of chirurgery in seven books ... shewing the names, causes, signs, differences, prognosticks, and various intentions of curing all kinds of chirurgick diseases ... : to which is added Pharmacopoeia chirurgica, or, The medical store, Latin and English ... / by William Salmon ...

IX. Tinctura Martis.

℞ Frustulorum seu Clavulo∣rum Ferri libras quinque, Vini Albi libras octo, Spiritus Vini li∣bras duas, Olei Sulphuris unciam unam; misce: digerantur loco frigido per menses sex, plus∣minus: & ut Sal & Sulphur Mar∣tis optime in Vinum exhalatur, saepiuscule Vas agitetur; deinde decanta, & filtra ad usum.

Haec Tinctura Martialis varios Humores Alvum subducendo cor∣ruptos educit, specialiter Flavam & Atram Bilem, Humores ter∣restres, ponderosos, & tenaces, aliis Medicamentis haud facile ejectos aut extirpatos. In Obstru∣ctione Hepatis, Splenis, & Ma∣tricis singulare est Remedium; Morbum Regium, Cardialgiam, Cordis tremorem, Colicam, Iliacam passionom, & Rachitidem adjuvat: in Melancholia Hypochondriaca,

Quartana, Cachexia, Hydrope, Scorbuto, Mensibus superfluis & retentis, Morbo Virgineo, &c. utile experimentum est. Dosis, cochlearia duo vel tria, plus-minus, in debito Vehiculo, hora somni; ut vires ejusdem eo melius penetrare possunt etiam ad remotas Corporis par∣tes.