" Take of aloes, powdered, an ounce; extract of liquorice, three ounces; water, a pint and a half; rectified spirit, half a pint. Macerate for fourteen days, then strain."

Dublin.

"Take of socotorine aloes in powder, half an ounce; extract of liquorice, dissolved in eight ounces of boiling water, an ounce and a half; proof spirit, eight fluid ounces. Digest for seven days; then strain."

Tinctura Aloes Socotorinae, Edin. Tincture of Socotorine Aloes.

"Take of socotorine aloes in powder, half an ounce; extract of liquorice, one ounce and a half; alcohol, four ounces; water, a pound. Digest for seven days, with a gentle heat, in a close vessel, which is to be frequently shaken (a circumstance to be attended to in preparing all the tinctures); then pour off the clear tincture."

Syn. Teinture d'Aloes (F.), Tinctura d'Aloe (I.).

This may be regarded rather as an aqueous solution than a tincture, the quantity of spirit being too small to serve any other purpose than that of preventing decomposition. It may be used in the same cases as the extract of aloes; but notwithstanding the presence of the liquorice, the bitterness of the aloes is so intense and disagreeable, as to prevent it from being often prescribed. Its dose is from f ss. to f jss.

Tinctura Aloes Aetherea. Edin. Aethereal Tincture of Aloes

"Take of socotorine aloes, myrrh, of each, in powder, an ounce and a half; English saffron, cut, an ounce; sulphuric aether with alcohol, a pound. Digest the myrrh with the aether for four days in a closed bottle; then add the saffron and the aloes. Digest again for four days, and when the dregs have subsided pour off the tincture."

The spirit of sulphuric aether is supposed to afford a more grateful tincture than spirit of wine; and in cases attended with spasm, as in hysteria connected with obstructed menstruation, this solvent may prove serviceable, independent of the matter it holds in solution. It is a warm, stomachic purgative, and is advantageously given in dyspeptic affections, jaundice, gout, chlorosis, and other cases in which aloetics are indicated. In doses of f 3 j. or f 3 ij. it acts chiefly as a stomachic; but purges briskly in large doses.

Tinctura Aloes Composita. Lond. Compound Tincture of Aloes

"Take of aloes, powdered, four ounces; saffron, two ounces; tincture of myrrh, two pints. Macerate for fourteen days, and strain."

Dublin.

"Take of tincture of myrrh, two pints; socotorine aloes, in powder, three ounces. Macerate for fourteen days, then strain."

Tinctura Aloes et Myrrhae, Edin. Tincture of Aloes and of Myrrh.

"Take of myrrh, in powder, two ounces; alcohol, a pound and a half; water, half a pound. Mix the alcohol with the water; then add the myrrh. Digest for four days; and, lastly, add of socotorine aloes in powder, one ounce and a half; English saffron, cut in pieces, one ounce. Digest again for three days, and pour off the clear tincture."

Syn. Alcohol avec l'Aloe et la Myrrhe (F.), Alcoole Aloe Mirrato (I.).

This tincture, which differs in little, except the solvent, from the former, may be used in the same cases. It resembles the elixir proprietatis of Paracelsus, and the old pharmacopoeias. It is occasionally used as a local stimulant to foul ulcers. The dose is from f 3 j. to f 3 ij.