Tinctura Cascarillae. Br. Tincture of Cascarilla.

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Related entries: Cascarilla

Teinture (alcoole) de Cascarille, Fr. Cod.; Kaskarilltinktur, G.

"Cascarilla, in No. 40 powder, 200 grammes; Alcohol (70 per cent.) sufficient to produce 1000 millilitres. Moisten the powder with one hundred and fifty millilitres of the Alcohol, and complete the percolation process." Br.

This tincture has the properties of cascarilla, but is seldom, if ever, used in this country.

Dose, from thirty minims to two fluidrachms (1.8-7.5 mils).


The Dispensatory of the United States of America, 1918, was edited by Joseph P. Remington, Horatio C. Wood and others.