Cache-Control: public, max-age=1024000 Pharmacopoeia Extemporanea: Cathartic Wine

Cathartic Wine.

Take Senna 2 ounces; white Tartar powder'd 8 scruples; White wine 1 quart; Brandy 4 ounces; macerate cold 3 days, and strain.

It may given, either alone to 4 ounces, or purging Potion may be made of it extempore, by adding Oil of Aniseed 1 dram, Scammony and Syrup of Roses solutive, as much as shall be deem'd requisite.

Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710