Name: Tonic Bitters, to Strengthen and Tone Up the System After Ague
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon tincture of capsicum; 1 ounce citrate of iron and quinine; 1 ounce compound tincture of gentian; 2 ounces elixir of cinchonia; 5 ounces whiskey

Tonic Bitters, to Strengthen and Tone Up the System After Ague

Ingredients

1 teaspoon tincture of capsicum
1 ounce citrate of iron and quinine
1 ounce compound tincture of gentian
2 ounces elixir of cinchonia
5 ounces whiskey

Directions

Mix all ingredients together in a suitable container.
Take 1 tablespoonful three times daily, just after meals.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.