tincture

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Dillon uses Scrappy’s Lime Bitters in Wild Ginger McKenzie’s gin-based Neil deLemongrasse Tyson cocktail, and Scrappy’s Firewater Tincture to add bite to tequila drinks.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2018

Other symptoms of shortages: > Tincture of iodine has been replaced by an alcoholic solution of complex phenols that penetrate deeply into the skin but that do not corrode metal or stain linen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Only two years after Turlington obtained his "Balsam of Life" patent, the Pharmacopoeia Londinensis introduced a recipe under the title of "Balsamum Traumaticum" which eventually became Compound Tincture of Benzoin, with the synonym Turlington's Balsam.

From Old English Patent Medicines in America by Griffenhagen, George B.

Tincture of jalap, five or six drops in water every three hours til it purges, to be repeated daily.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

If the Infection be very strong, to take a Glass of the spirituous Tincture of the Bark just before they go into the Hospital.

From An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Monro, Donald