This section is from the "A Handbook of Useful Drugs" book, by State Medical Examining and Licensing Boards.
Medicated wines are solutions of active medicaments in wine or extractive preparations of vegetable drugs made with wine as a menstruum. Because of the great variation in the composition of wine it is unsatisfactory as a menstruum for extracting vegetable drugs, and medicated wines are in fact becoming obsolete.
See Under Antimonii Et Potassii Tartras.
 
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